Holy Cow!

First, a look at the massive effort to find a red heifer, powered by  people who believe such a cow needs to be found before the messiah can come.

269 was originally the number of a a sweet-looking slaughterhouse-bound calf. Now it’s the namesake of 269, a radical vegan movement spawned by Sasha Bojoor, that uses the rallying cry, “Free 269.” Yochai Maital talks with Sasha to trace the origins of 269 and their extreme tactics.

Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel,  traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rural Wisconsin. Mishy Harman went to the farm and spoke to Dubi.

Writer and radio host Jonathan Goldstein offers us a sly and bittersweet interpretation of Moses’ battle against idol worship, told from the perspective of the youngest employee of a golden calf business that faces its fiercest competition yet: God.