יום רביעי, ט״ז תמוז תשפ״וWednesday, July 1, 2026
Follow Us
Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin is the director of the Biblical Museum of Natural History in Beit Shemesh www.BiblicalNaturalHistory.org and writes at www.RationalistJudaism.com.
Read More
Preparing grasshoppers for consumption is very easy. No shechitah is required. And while there is a dispute among the rabbis whether they must be killed before they are eaten, this debate can be easily circumvented by freezing and killing them, ensuring that they die painlessly.
On October 7, every act of Israeli resistance shifted the narrative arc from millennia of Jewish suffering to another chapter in the Zionist quest to build and defend a Jewish homeland.
Israel has not yet been, and still is not, the safest place in the world for Jews. But not everyone has the option to live in the safest place in the world – many people just need somewhere that is safer than where they currently live.
The type of things that one thinks about as a religious Jew in a shtetl or a small community are not the type of things that one has to think about as part of an entire country.
Are the majority of scientists correct? Can random mutation and natural selection indeed account for how evolutionary changes occurred?
Reconciling modern science and the Genesis story in the Torah
If a fish has scales as a juvenile, but lacks them as an adult, is it kosher?
He points out that medieval Ashkenazic authorities never saw an olive. Olives do not grow that far north; they only grow in the Mediterranean region.
Darwin deduced that the same Creator operated in Australia as in Europe. The platypus must, as all the other animals, be the handiwork of the same Creator. Baruch meshaneh habriyot!
It's fascinating how sources attain the status "traditional," or its equivalent level of kashrus.
The zealots who engineered the ban have been publicly disgraced.
Rabbi Slifkin gives us a Jewish view on Evolution.
Is handmade always better?
June 26, 2026 
