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Shmuly Yanklowitz

Shmuly Yanklowitz

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This Passover, Giving Kosher and Update!

In the grocery store this spring, you’ll likely come across some food items labeled “kosher for Passover.” A lot of us might be asking: What...

30.03.2023 10

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Lox and gefilte fish? Study shows fish are more like friends than we thought

For many of us in the Jewish world, we find the avoidance of meat to be a meaningful Jewish practice. It makes keeping kosher easier, and it benefits...

23.03.2023 8

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Condemning the barbarism in Huwara: A statement from Orthodox rabbis

This is a statement, made by members of Torat Chayim, an international group of Orthodox rabbis, as signed below. We have watched events in Israel in...

15.03.2023 8

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Congress must pass proposed federal program for kidney donors!

For Jews passionate about social justice, the task of fixing the entire world, with all its disasters and tragedies, can feel both overwhelming and,...

01.03.2023 10

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We Must End the Shameful Practice of Using Private Prisons

The very first thing we learn from the Torah about human beings is that we’re made in the image of God. We’re taught in the first chapter of the...

08.02.2023 20

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We Must Stop Putting Sky-High Healthcare Profits over Human Lives!

For time immemorial, the doctors have played an indispensable part in Jewish life. We know that when Maimonides wasn’t changing the world as a...

07.02.2023 20

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America Must Take the Lead on Lab-Grown Meat

Imagine taking someone from 10 years ago in a time machine to a grocery store in America today. In some ways it might look the same, but I think the...

04.02.2023 10

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The Sanctity of Birthing: Forced Early Childbirth Violates Mothers in Prison

We all know that the miracle of giving birth to a child is among the most important, personal, sacred events that someone can experience in the course...

02.02.2023 4

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Child Labor: Standing Up to the Latest Slaughterhouse Exploitation!

In what feels like a terrifying regression to the 1890s, we are faced with the fact that children in America, “as young as 13,” have been put to...

02.02.2023 20

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We Owe More to Migrant Children in Foster Care

For children who require foster care, all of life is an unimaginable challenge. Their immediate families, for one reason or another, have failed them,...

18.01.2023 30

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Extreme weather on the rise: We must prevent employers from acting like Pharaoh!

In the story of the Exodus, there’s one understated element of the Israelites’ enslavement that I find to be emblematic of an acute kind of...

12.01.2023 10

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Teacher Salaries Must Match Torah Values!

We’ve known for far too long that America’s teachers are overworked, underpaid and burned out, tending to our kids all day and grading papers all...

07.01.2023 20

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The Torah Case for Fair Wages for Undocumented Prisoners

In an egregious abuse of the vulnerable among us, undocumented immigrants detained by ICE have been effectively “sold” to private companies to...

06.01.2023 9

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Strangers Shall Be to You as Citizens: Our Moral Mandate Today

When Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Thom Tillis’s piece of lame-duck immigration legislation died in the Senate last week, I felt a great deal of...

21.12.2022 20

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Can America be united by “Service Culture”?

In an era when it’s easy for us to dwell endlessly on what the opposite end of the political spectrum is doing, I have a critique of both sides of...

16.12.2022 20

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