FROM THE FILTER

Developing Intolerance
Michael Kimmelman assesses the rise of anti-Semitism in Hungary. While Communism attempted to eradicate differences, the opposite may have since become a problem: "What is now being denied here is the notion that Jews, no matter how we behave, are the same as non-Jews," a sociologist tells him.
05.08.08 | EMAIL | PERMALINK

Animal Wrongs
The undercover PETA agents who busted kosher slaughterhouse AgriProcessors in 2004 have outed themselves to bring publicity to their cause. Hannah and Philip Schein are concerned that Orthodox practices have gotten "so focused on the letter of the law that they've lost sight of the fact that [kashrut] is about reducing suffering."
05.06.08 | EMAIL | PERMALINK

Pigging Out
Jeffrey Yoskowitz went to Kibbutz Lahav, Israel's only Jewish-run pig farm. His supervisor was "a proud Israeli-born pork eater—and self-proclaimed messiah (he was born on the Ninth of Av, the prophesied birthday of the future messiah)." The collective raises the animal for scientific research and "eats the excess."
04.25.08 | EMAIL | PERMALINK

Got Jew?
Abe Novick wants to brand Judaism. Struggling with concision, he searches for a word to unite us in an "overloaded, overextended, time-crunched, soundbite, info age, where our mental storage capacity has about as much room as a cramped Lower East Side apartment."
04.24.08 | EMAIL | PERMALINK

Imaginary Meals
Weird Tales editor Ann VanderMeer has a rundown of the (hypothetical) kosher-ness of various "fantastical animals and beings." Sighs one commenter: "There goes my plan for dragon brisket."
04.22.08 | EMAIL | PERMALINK

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