Kosher Slaughterhouse Defends Practices
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An animal rights group filed a complaint Wednesday against a kosher slaughterhouse for alleged cruelty to cattle. The slaughterhouse called the complaint a veiled attack on religious freedom.
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A primer on the oil-for-food accusations
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An animal rights group has captured videotape that it says shows cattle at a kosher slaughterhouse enduring an "absolutely outrageous" level of cruelty.
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JERUSALEM -- An Israeli archeologist said the site of a dig outside a disputed holy compound in Jerusalem might contain a Muslim prayer room, and the work drew renewed condemnation yesterday.
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G. Willi-Food is an import company with one problem: It serves war-torn Israel.
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New York Cityâs new rules for menu labels at chain restaurants have set off a food fight among the nationâs obesity experts.
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A document that surfaced recently in church archives has revived debate about a contentious post-World War II issue: the Vatican's attempt to keep hold of some Jewish children who were protected from the Nazis by Christian families.
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Environment Secretary David Miliband defends the government's stance on Hungarian poultry imports.
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A public school has stirred debate over whether it can teach Hebrew without violating the church-state divide.
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A traveling exhibit of the bombed-out remains of a Jerusalem bus is sparking opposition from critics who call it a politically charged and one-sided statement.
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Employees at the now-closed Southern California slaughterhouse where inhumane treatment of cows was captured on a gruesome undercover video committed "egregious violations" of federal animal care regulations, the U.S. Agriculture Department has determined.
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Two Asian delicacies are the subject of a simmering debate pitting merchants who like to store them at room temperature for hours against food safety regulators who worry the practice could allow bacteria to build up.
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Consumer advocates and some lawmakers say that a Salinas Valley company's recall of spinach because of a salmonella scare shows that the federal government must do more to protect the nation's food supply, but industry officials call it proof that their voluntary regulations are working.
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Ban is lauded by health advocates, but critics see it as an attack on business owners, smokers.
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The controversy over Italyâs 30-year-old law legalizing abortion stirred up demonstrations this week in its defense.
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Building a housing complex or a road in the Holy Land can often have grave implications.
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Undercover video leads to recall of 143m lbs of beef from a southern California slaughterhouse