Israel’s tragic—and dangerous—Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is finally stepping down.
Not the only leader, by far, to prove the Hebrew Prophet Samuel correct about the pitfalls of worldly leaders, he nonetheless excelled in putting his own interests above those of the long-awaited resurrected state of his people.
Not that it was all his fault, mind you.
When […]

There are many connections that can be made between the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur and vegetarianism:
1. On Yom Kippur, Jews pray to the “Living God”, the “King Who delights in life”, that they should be remembered for life, and inscribed in the “Book of Life” for the New Year. Yet, typical animal-based […]

There are many connections that can be made between vegetarianism and the joyous Jewish festivals of Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret (the Eighth Day of Solemn Assembly), and Simchat Torah:
1. Sukkot commemorates the 40 years when the ancient Israelites lived in the wilderness in frail huts and were sustained by manna. According to Isaac Arama (1420-1494), […]

Every year, before Yom Kippur, some Jews perform the ceremony of kapparot. The following, in question and answer form, is a discussion of the ritual and its relation to the treatment of animals.
What is kapparot [in Ashkenazic Hebrew or Yiddish, kappores or shluggen kappores]?
Kapparot is a custom in which the sins of a person […]