This Shabbat is the third of the seven Sabbaths between the 9 th day of Av and Rosh HaShanah, the New Year. The Torah portion begins in a stark manner: “See – I have placed today before you a blessing ...

The Torah tells us not to add to or subtract from the commandments (Deuteronomy 13:1). This directive seems to contravene the ongoing development of Jewish law on the part of the rabbis (17:8–13).

The past 150 years have seen a rise in vegetarianism, the practice of not eating meat or fish. Vegetarianism sees eating meat as cruel and morally reprehensible, even considering it murderous. An ...

a pamphlet about vivisection from a penpal. (Penpals used to be a thing. As did pens.) I was at an Island’s Restaurant in Pasadena and my young friend and I couldn’t get furry and feathered faces out ...