I met Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz several years ago when we were students in Yeshivat Hamivtar, in Israel. As those who know him personally would surely attest, Reb Shmuly is a fiercely passionate, creative, and independent thinker. I was honored when he asked me to review his forthcoming book, Jewish Ethics & Social Justice, for Jewneric. 
It has become increasingly fashionable among some in my Jewish community to promote the notion that kosher food must be, what they call, “sustainable.” First, it is important to understand that kosher food laws are strictly religious in nature; it is a myth that they kosher foods are healthier, safer, or even cleaner than other 
Fellow Jewneric blogger, Joshua Einstein, writes about a common argument made by Jewish outreach organizations: “the secular world is morally relative and adrift” and only religion provides “moral constancy”. Josh argues that “the claim of moral constancy” is false. “Morality in Judaism has been an ever evolving notion, something relative to the times.” Moreover, Judaism’s