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Losing to Gain: The Central Paradox of Death Rituals – The Break that Binds by Isaac Pollak
Rabbi Joe Blair
August 9, 2017
Give Polish Jewry a kosher choice
Jewish Journal
July 31, 2013
Remember Had Gadya? What satisfaction when, onto the scene of carnage, walks the Holy One of Blessing, and destroys the angel of death that slew the butcher that killed the ox that drank the water that quenched the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the kid.
German Parliament passes law guaranteeing legality of ritual circumcision
Jewish Journal
December 12, 2012
The German Parliament passed a law protecting the right of Jewish and Muslim parents to choose a ritual circumcision for their sons, after months of heated debate over efforts to ban the practice.
European rabbis protest circumcision bans, plan to lobby
Jewish Journal
July 25, 2012
The Conference of European Rabbis will lobby against recent circumcision bans by advocating legislation supporting the practice.
Rabbis to meet in Berlin to protest circumcision ban
Jewish Journal
July 9, 2012
Jewish religious leaders will hold an international meeting in Berlin on Tuesday to discuss how to respond to a German court ruling against performing circumcision on baby boys, which also sparked protests from Muslims and Christians in Germany.
Proposed Dutch ban on ritual slaughter is unfair, ill advised
Jewish Journal
April 12, 2011
Animal rights or Jewish rites? That is the question this week before the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, as it considers a bill that effectively would prohibit shechitah, the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals.
Sacramento PBS TV affiliate won’t run anti-Semitism documentary
Joe Eskenazi
January 18, 2007
David Hosley thinks a scene in which a group of devious Jews slash the throat of a young boy in a ritual slaughter to cull his blood for Passover matzah is not the type of thing that should be shown on television. Yitzhak Santis thinks it\’s exactly what we should be seeing.
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