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Vegetarianism: An Alternative Kashrut

The author argues that our evolving religious sensibilities should bring us to recognize vegetarianism as a new mitzvah.

Vegetarianism and Jewish Ethics

An American Reform rabbi argues that it is a mitzvah to refrain from eating meat.

Vegetarianism and Kashrut

Moral and theological implications of vegetarianism can be seen as a challenge to the rabbinic tradition.

Keeping Kosher: Contemporary Views

Recent writers reflect on what observing kashrut has meant in their own lives.

Kashrut Themes: Contemporary Concerns

Modern Jews balance their secular knowledge and Jewish commitments in forging attitudes toward traditional dietary laws.

Why Keep Kosher: Traditional Views

Reasoning from Maimonides, Nahmanides, and the kabbalists.

Kashrut Themes and Theology

Jewish dietary laws, the origins of which are in biblical law, have a variety of explanations within the Bible itself, and those explanations have themselves been the subject of multiple interpretations.

Kashrut 101

Jewish dietary laws are observed in varying degrees among Jewish families and individuals.

How To Make Your Own Gragger

Instructions for constructing a Purim noisemaker

Remembering Amalek

A serious lesson that focuses on fighting evil precedes the Purim fesitivites.

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