Kosher cooking school opens
The only professional kosher cooking school in North America – a six-week, $4,500 intensive course run in cooperation with a local community college – opened in Brooklyn.
View ArticleSocial justice project launches
The Righteous Indignation project aims to build a national momentum of progressive Jews working for social justice from within a framework of Jewish values.
View ArticleActivists rally for Agriprocessors workers
Hundreds of activists flooded the small town of Postville, Iowa, in what some young demonstrators described as an effort to show their Jewish-based commitment to helping immigrants and workers.
View ArticleAgriprocessors tries to clean up its act
Nearly three months after a federal raid and six weeks before the busy High Holidays season, a tour of Agriprocessors shows the company is attracting new workers and trying to clean up its act.
View ArticleRIP: Orthodox cantoring
Long in decline, Orthodox cantoring has been dealt a body blow by the popularity of Carlebach tunes and the rising expertise of yeshiva-educated community members who lead congregations in prayer.
View ArticlePETA slams N.Y. kapparot ritual
An animal rights group is calling for a New York state investigation into kapparot, the High Holidays ritual that involves swinging a live chicken over one's head.
View ArticleHekhsher Tzedek launches holiday drive
Leaders of the Conservative movement's ethical kashrut certification program Hekhsher Tzedek are taking the campaign to the next level: They are inviting Conservative rabbis to sign onto the...
View ArticleJesuit college teaching Jewish social justice
The reconfigured Judaic studies program at the University of San Francisco has morphed from stressing the theological and historical to teaching students what it means to be a Jewish social justice...
View ArticleConservative cantors struggle to adjust
Cantors are finding it more difficult than usual to find work, especially in the hard-hit Conservative movement. So cantors are expanding their marketability by increasing their job skills.
View ArticleActivists slaughter their own kosher meat
Inspired by the eco-food movement and the controversy surrounding America's largest kosher slaughterhouse, some young Jewish food activists are taking their food into their own hands by raising their...
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