An independent journalist went undercover inside a freemason lodge to expose the bizarre rituals conducted behind closed doors by one of the world’s most secretive fraternities. Arizona-based journalist Kyle Clifton said going in he wasn’t aware how much of the freemason teachings are derived from the Talmud, the central and foundational text in Rabbinic Judaism. “I went undercover with a hidden... 

New Zealand has become the fourth country to outlaw Jewish ritual slaughtering, authorities said Sunday, after Iceland, Norway, and Sweden took similar measures in the past. Under the newly instated Animal Welfare Commercial Slaughter Code, announced by Agriculture Minister David Carter, commercially killed animals would have to be stunned before slaughter, making kosher slaughter, or shchita, illegal,... 

Kosher Slaughter consists of a small cut on the animal’s neck. This method of slaughter is very similar with the Islamic version called Halal A regulation protecting religious slaughter in the European Union was welcomed by British Jewry this week, following a ruling enshrining into EU law legislation that will protect shechita from those who may seek to ban it in the future. The new law, which...