Religion and Politics

Land of Pork and Honey

For Roads & Kingdoms, Shira Rubin writes on the growing popularity of pork in Israel, and the tension it ignites in the primarily Jewish nation. David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, “viewed eating pork as a recent Jewish diasporic cultural development that Israelis needed to shed in order to forge a united Israeli identity,” Rubin writes. Yet, Haaretz writer Rogel Alpher argues that kosher rules are discriminatory, calling the kashrut culture “a culture of coercion, of wielding control over the population.”

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