In Monday’s Jerusalem Post, Prof. Ari Zivotofsky authored an article harshly criticizing and diminishing the work of Tzohar’s kashrut supervision in ways that we fear will lead some uninformed readers ...

Tzohar has been more lenient in its wine kashrut certification than usually accepted but hasn't stated so on the bottles. Recent revelations about Tzohar’s kashrut certification of wine are the latest ...

A few months ago, signs were plastered across haredi neighborhoods in Jerusalem—including one directly in front of my apartment building—declaring that “Anyone who enlists (in the IDF), will eat treif ...

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) – This Thanksgiving, New Yorker Linda Lantos didn’t have to compromise her Jewish or ecological values: She served free-range, organic, non-genetically engineered turkey that was ...

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — The Conservative movement’s ethical kosher initiative may not have been intended as a wedge into the Orthodox monopoly over kosher supervision. But the planned rollout this ...

But so far, modern Orthodox, or even slightly less observant Jews—both in Israel and beyond—have been leery of taking cannabis, even as medicine. And when it comes to these kinds of decisions, it is ...

Minister of Religious Services Matan Kahana (Yamina), June 14, 2021. Army Radio economics reporter Nitay Anavi on Tuesday morning tweeted a copy of Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana’s ...

Religious Jewish women, the primary cooks in Orthodox families, have long ruled kosher kitchens and served as crucial, informal kosher watchdogs for their families and guests. But those women are ...

Q: May an observant Jew who keeps kosher according to halakha, eat at the home of a masoriti (traditional) relative or friend who is not Shomer Shabbat, but says he keeps kosher in his home and is ...

We appreciate Rabbi Shafran’s embrace of the importance of the work of Magen Tzedek when he states in his JTA Op-Ed, “to be sure Jewish ethical values in food production are no less important (than) ...

” target = “_blank”>Jared Fogle. Through a program of turkey club sandwiches for lunch and veggie subs for dinner as well as exercise, this overweight Jew’s ...