Eliyahu Federman
By Eliyahu Federman
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Opinion The Hypocrisy Of Ritual Slaughter Bans
A widely supported bill in the Belgian region will ban versions of traditional Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter. These attacks on Halal and Kosher meat are unfortunately not isolated and are occurring with more frequency around the world. Denmark, New Zealand, Switzerland and other European countries and jurisdictions prohibit traditional slaughter with laws requiring that…
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Opinion Does Gothamist Have a Hasidic Problem?
The popular New York City-centric news site Gothamist has been nominated six times for the prestigious Bloggies award, and was dubbed a “Best of the Web” by Business Week and “Blog of the Year” by Wired magazine. The New York Times once that it “reflects everything worth knowing about this city.” You’d think a publication…
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Opinion Why This Jew Stands With Christians on Christmas
Displaced Christians sell holiday crafts at a market in the Kurdish city of Erbil / Getty Images As a Jew, I’m not literally celebrating Christmas — it’s not my tradition. But I will spend the day celebrating the fact that Christians are proudly observing their traditions amid relentless persecution. This year has seen more global…
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Opinion Judge Posner Overstepped Bounds in Chabad Drinking Case
Judge Richard Posner inappropriately opined on Jewish law in a 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last week, which held that Northwestern University was justified in disaffiliating with Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, a Chabad campus rabbi accused by the University of serving alcohol to minors. The rabbi maintains that Northwestern violated his constitutional rights, denied…
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Opinion How Not To Write About Hasids Buying Weed
Cover of the memoir “Cannabis Chassidis” / Amazon Should the media highlight religious affiliation of criminal suspects when the affiliation has no bearing on the crime, and when those accused are not representatives of any religious group? This weekend the New York Post ran a story of three Hasidic men busted for attempting to buy…
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Opinion Gaza War Leaves Broken Friendships in Wake
If Hollywood and television are a microcosm of the real world, the current Middle East conflict didn’t just leave an estimated 1,814 Palestinians and 67 Israelis dead, but also left countless friendships and relationships destroyed in its aftermath. The collateral social damage stemming from baseless insults, fuming rhetoric, serves no purpose other than to hinder…
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Opinion Don’t Reward Hamas for Israeli Soldier’s Body
Palestinians celebrate after Hamas’ armed wing said it had captured an Israeli soldier / Getty Images Immediately after a Hamas military spokesperson announced the capture of an Israeli soldier this Sunday, the streets of Gaza, Hebron, Ramallah and Bethlehem erupted in fireworks and celebration. Israel confirmed this week that the body of, Oron Shaul, a…
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Opinion Denmark’s Kosher Ban Hypocrisy
Denmark denounces kosher slaughter as animal cruelty. Yet the Scandinavian nation allows mink farming for fur./Getty images Ritual slaughter, performed according to Islamic and Jewish tradition, is considered a humane method of slaughter under the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act (HMSLA), the United States federal law designed to decrease animal suffering. In ritual slaughter,…
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