Kosher Slaughter News Today

With both antisemitism and Islamophobia on the rise in Europe, the Jewish and Muslim communities should take this rare opportunity to stand together to halt this trend.

Two of Belgium’s three regions banned slaughter without stunning in 2017 and 2018, saying that the practice was cruel to animals.

The question of the kosher status of cultivated meat products carries great significance for the future of kashrut and may lay the groundwork for entirely new precedents in this area.

Antisemitism is one of the oldest and most pernicious forms of bigotry. For millennia, civilizations around the globe have oppressed the Jewish people. Many of these governments were motivated by a hatred of Jews simply because they were Jews. Other nations bore no particular animus toward Jews as such, but instead considered Judaism as inconsistent with contemporary values. Throughout the ages, people with very different motivations have adopted a wide range of policies that suppressed the Jewi...