Kosher ethics panel at YU
The New York Times has a story yesterday on the kosher ethics panel Tuesday night at Yeshiva University (also live-streamed on the JTA website).
In the piece, reporter Paul Vitello offers a good, if brief, overview of the various approaches presented at the panel, ranging from that of the fervently Orthodox Agudath Israel of America (kashrut and ethics are both important, but totally separate) to Shmuly Yanklowitz, co-founder of the social justice group Uri L'tzedek (consumers of immorally produced goods are culpable in their production).
A JTA video report on the event is coming soon.
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Rebekah Morris
12/11/08 07:12 PM
I find this an interesting subject seeing as both my Rabbi’s have opted for an organic stamp on their food rather than kosher, due to the questionable ethics on some kosher farms. Although I stopped keeping kosher over a year ago, feeling wasting food was worse than breaking kashrut, I still find this quite important for the Jewish community. Another example of questing whether to follow the letter of the law, or the spirit of it.