Jewish Dietary Laws
Making Meat Kosher: Between Slaughtering and Cooking
Blood must be removed from kosher meat, usually by salting and soaking, before it may be cooked and consumed.
Kosher Food: What Makes Food Kosher or Not
The word "kosher" literally means "fit" or "appropriate."
Eco-Kashrut: Standards for What and How We Eat
Incorporating environmental concerns into to the Jewish dietary laws.
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.
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.