A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish identity. In 2021, the Orthodox Union declined to put its kosher ...

Rosenblum, a professor of religious studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written three other books on Jews and food, has spent 20 years pondering the question, “Why the pig?” ...

It’s a delicate phrase, “sensitivities to the consumer,” that hints at a long and fraught history explored in Jordan D. Rosenblum’s new book, “Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig.” The ...

Rosenblum’s new book, “Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig.” The “consumer” of course is the Jew, and those “sensitivities” are the result of a history that turned ...

Babirusas are believed to have diverged from their pig ancestors between 26 million and 12 million years ago after getting ...

Morgan Mullins told Newsweek, "When we went out, we found all the empty beer cans, and then a very drunk Strawberry!" ...

In Hawai‘i, people, pigs, and ecosystems only have so much room to coexist, and the pigs exist a little too much.

I miss the sense of neighborhoods, featuring potluck suppers and snoot-proof ranch-style houses, since replaced by ...

They based their opinion on a shorter snout and floppier ears than wild pigs. Experts have also said it is unlikely for a wild pig to reach those kinds of weights because of the effort it takes ...

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the H5N1 virus in swine in the United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday.