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Breaking the Kashrut Cartel

Israeli law gives the Chief Rabbinate a monopoly on kosher certification.  The predictable results are complacency and corruption.  But now a group of restaurateurs is fighting back.The Fuhrer Was Not Amused

From average Germans to Jews in concentration camps, gallows humor was one of the few weapons of resistance against the Third Reich.  So, Hitler tried mightily to repress it.Fearing the Flood

Underneath all of the scientific predictions and vast technological apparatus monitoring Hurricane Sandy lay an ancient biblical fear—of the Deluge.Choosing Life

Tamara Mann was carrying a non-viable fetus.  Her Orthodox rabbi said that it was not alive, so she should terminate the pregnancy.  The State of Ohio disagreed.