Just Injustice

By Rabbi Haim Ovadia
Published on September 11, 2008

Parshat Ki Teitze (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) Wouldn't it be better to ban the practice of capturing women for marriage and to find a way to settle the differences of the rebellious son and his parents without using the electric chair?

PETA says Agriprocessors misled rabbis about slaughter procedures [VIDEO]

By Ben Harris
Published on September 5, 2008

An undercover video shot at the Agriprocessors kosher meat plant is prompting new claims that the company engages in inhumane slaughter and misled Orthodox rabbis who visited the plant in July.

PETA slams N.Y. kapparot ritual [VIDEO]

Published on August 27, 2008

For the second year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has complained about the High Holy Days ritual of swinging a chicken over one's head, a sin-transference ceremony

Video Takes Bite Out of Kosher Slaughter

By Gabriel Sanders
Published on April 20, 2006

Jonathan Safran Foer, author of the best-selling novel, "Everything Is Illuminated" (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) and last year's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" (Houghton Mifflin) released a video earlier this month in which he argues that the slaughtering practices employed by modern factory farms are out of step with the spirit of the kosher laws. The film ultimately calls upon viewers to consider vegetarianism.

Kosher Slaughter Controversy Erupts

By Peter Ephross
Published on December 2, 2004

It's not every day that people affiliated with a strident animal rights group talk turkey with those who oversee kosher slaughter.

But that's exactly what happened this week, when an unpaid adviser to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) discussed allegations of improper slaughtering practices at an Iowa kosher meat plant with the head of the Orthodox Union's kashrut division.