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Culture Simone Biles’ GOAT leotard has a biblical precedent
Simone Biles is not being humble with her latest fashion statement — and who could blame her? The gymnast has 30 Olympic medals and continues to push her sport, and seemingly the laws of physics, to new heights. Because of her mastery, she has been called the GOAT, Greatest of All Time, and was recently…
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Food For Jewish Environmentalists, The Answer To Sustainability Lies In…Goat Meat
In the wake of a terrifying UN climate report, which announced that mankind has twelve years to wean itself off its fossil fuel guzzling, steak swilling, energy-overusing ways, people are looking about for any way to save our thoroughly rattled planet. One solution? Goat meat. While attaining kosher goat meat might prove to be a…
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Israel News Jerusalem Police Thwart Passover Goat Sacrifice Plot
Israeli police detained seven Jewish men suspected of planning to sacrifice goats in the Old City of Jerusalem in honor of Passover, reported. The arrests on Friday came amid a pre-holiday crackdown against right-wing activists whose visits to the contested Temple Mount have been at the center of months-long tensions between Israel and the Palestinians….
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News Grim Week for Animals as Jewish and Muslim Rituals Coincide
It’s not a great week to be a chicken or a goat. That is thanks to a fluke of the Islamic and Hebrew calendars that has set the prescribed time for a Jewish ritual slaughter and a Muslim sacrifice within a single day of each other. This year, the Jewish ritual of Kapparot is performed…
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Food My Delicious Braised-Goat Adventure
My family gets together regularly with a group of dedicated carnivore friends for a feast including some combination of roast beef, schnitzel, sausages, and sometimes a roast goose. My contributions tend toward accessories like wine, vegetables and desserts, important but less glamorous. So I was excited when friends at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center…
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The Schmooze ‘Goy’: A Transgendered, Genetically Modified Goat
You thought “goy” is a derogatory word for a non-Jew? Incorrect. It actually means “genetically modified goat” — at least in New Zealand, where scientists are using the term to refer to a new breed of the animal. The goats, presumably gentiles, are described as “transgender,” and are part of an experiment to see whether…
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Food The New Kosher Meat – It’s What’s for Dinner
“So long as Kosher consumers demand cheap meat, and a lot of it, the big slaughterhouses and packing plants will continue to churn it out as quickly and inexpensively as possible.” – Sue Fishkoff, “Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority” Four “meat-makers” at the Hazon East Coast…
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