Shalom everyone,
This update/Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA) Online Newsletter has the following items:
1. Happy Purim
2. My Article To Be in Friday’s Jerusalem Post/Please Send Letters to the Editor at Letters@JPost.com
3. My Essay on Judaism and Veganism in a Newly-Published Book
4. NY Times Op-Ed on Animal Abuses Compares Treatment of Pets to Treatment of Farmed Animals
5. Articles Relate Animal-Based Diets to Climate Change
6. Very Comprehensive Article On Judaism and Vegetarianism Published by Israeli Rabbi
7. Some upcoming Events at the Israeli Jewish Vegetarian Society Headquarters
8. Excellent PDF on Veganism Produced
9. Action Alert: Please Protest Against Efforts to Inhibit Efforts to Spotlight Factory Farming Abuses
10. 'American Greed’ Episode to Feature Sholom Rubashkin
Some material has been deferred to a later update/newsletter to keep this one from being even longer.
[Materials in brackets like this [ ] within an article or forwarded message are my editorial notes/comments.]
Opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the JVNA, unless otherwise indicated, but may be presented to increase awareness and/or to encourage respectful dialogue. Also, material re conferences, retreats, forums, trips, and other events does not necessarily imply endorsement by JVNA or endorsement of the kashrut, Shabbat observances, or any other Jewish observances, but may be presented for informational purposes. Please use e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and web sites to get further information about any event that you are interested in. Also, JVNA does not necessarily agree with all positions of groups whose views are included or whose events are announced in this newsletter.
As always, your comments and suggestions are very welcome.
Thanks,
Richard
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1. Happy Purim
Purim begins this year immediately after the upcoming Shabbat. I wish everyone a very joyous and meaningful Purim. For my article, “Purim and Vegetarianism,” please visit the holidays section at JewishVeg.com/schwartz/. And please feel free to use the points in the article to promote vegetarianism. One conversation starter is to mention that the heroine of the Purim Queen Esther was a vegetarian while she lived in the palace of King Ahashveros. This enabled her to keep her Jewish identity secret while also avoiding eating non-kosher meat.
The sources are Targum Esther 2:7; and Midrash Panim
Aherim 63 and 64 ( the Talmud , Megilla 13a, also mentions that Esther only ate permitted food, and one could deduce that that would necessitate a vegetarian diet.)
Thanks to former Chief Rabbi of Ireland and JVNA advisor Rabbi David Rosen for these sources.
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2. My Article To Be in Friday’s Jerusalem Post/Please Send Letters to the Editor at Letters@JPost.com
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=212400
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3. My Essay on Judaism and Veganism in a Newly-Published Book
Message I received from a co-author of the book:
To the Amazing Contributors of Call to Compassion!
Thank you so much again for being part of this outstanding, powerful, and one of a kind book that will surely be used in courses in religion, theology, critical animal studies, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, and beyond. [The book has essays relating various religions and spiritual paths to veganism.]
The book is very beautiful and I will be developing a website and youtube for it shortly.
There will be a book release party at the North American ICAS Conference at Brock University April 2, 2011.
Please help promote the book at your schools, community centers, libraries, and bookstores. If you can promote it also on your websites, facebooks, and linkedin that would be very helpful. Please help hype up the book every way you can think of.
Here is the book page on Lantern books: http://www.lanternbooks.com/detail.html?session=&id=9781590561829 please send this around to friends and family.
With care!
Anthony Nocella
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4. NY Times Op-Ed on Animal Abuses Compares Treatment of Pets to Treatment of Farmed Animals
Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others/?ref=opinion
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My letter to the NY tTmes in response:
March 16, 2011
Editor, NY Times
Letters@NYTimes.com
Sir:
Kudos to Mark Bittman for his March 16 article, “Some Animas Are More Equal Than Others,” in which he points out the sharp discrepancies between people’s treatment of pets and the treatment of almost ten billion animals raised for slaughter on factory farms. What makes the severe mistreatment of farmed animals even more shameful is that their consumption is causing an epidemic of heart disease, cancer and other chronic degenerative diseases and the raising of these animals contributes to climate change, deforestation, soil erosion and depletion, water pollution, rapid loss of biodiversity, and other environmental problems and is very wasteful of water, energy, land, and other scarce resources.
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5. Articles Relate Animal-Based Diets to Climate Change
http://www.examiner.com/green-business-in-seattle/un-says-global-warming-could-be-halved-with-focus-on-shorter-lived-greenhouse-ga
http://www.examiner.com/green-business-in-seattle/is-meat-killing-the-planet-un-says-diet-change-will-slow-climate-change
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6. Very Comprehensive Article On Judaism and Vegetarianism Published by Israeli Rabbi
There is a very important, comprehensive, scholarly new article by Rabbi Simchah Roth, titled: And you shall be holy people unto Me [Exodus 22:30] - Why an observant Jew should follow a plant-based (vegan) diet.
You can find the article here: http://www.bmv.org.il/v/vegan.html
A Hebrew version can be found here: http://www.bmv.org.il/v/h-vegan.html
Please share this article with friends!
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7. Some upcoming Events at the Israeli Jewish Vegetarian Society Headquarters
Part of a message from the Ginger Society director Yossi Wolfson
Sunday March 20th
Purim / Meatout events
February 20th is both Purim and World Meatout – a day dedicated to veggie education. We will celebrate both together.
1:00 pm baking session in Ginger [8 Balfour Street, Jerusalem]
5:00 pm a tasty educational activity in the city center: we will distribute vegan hamantashen and literature.
8:00 pm Purim party at Ginger!
Feel free to come in costume.
Admission to the party: 25 NIS or individual donation.
Ginger - the Vegetarian Community Center
8 Balfour Street, Jerusalem; telephone: 02-5665737
www.ginger.org.il
Lecturers and facilitators in events at Ginger, are solely responsible to the information they present and to the opinions they express. Opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of Ginger. Information presented has not necessarily been veified by Ginger. Ginger publishes initiatives that may interest community members or promote plant-based diets. Ginger also participates and co-organizes such initiatives. This should not be construed as endorsement of any opinion, data or practice involved in these initiatives.
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8. Excellent PDF on Veganism Produced
Forwarded message:
Dear Richard,
I attach the PDF file, and yes, I just made a blog with the full text.
Here: veganlifenow.blogspot.com
Also in spanish: vidaveganahoy.blogspot.com
Hope you like it! [I skimmed the PDF, and it looks very comprehensive and very valuable. It covers a wide variety of vegan-related topics.]
Best regards,
Rafael.
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9. Action Alert: Please Protest Against Efforts to Inhibit Efforts to Spotlight Factory Farming Abuses
Thanks to JVNA advisor and award-winning film maker Lionel Friedberg for forwarding this message to us:
Please take a look at this archaic and draconian proposal and publicize it
as widely as possible:
http://floridaindependent.com/23574/jim-norman-bill-would-make-farm-photography-a-first-degree-felony-animal-rights-groups-outraged
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10. 'American Greed’ Episode to Feature Sholom Rubashkin
March 8, 2011
(JTA) -- Jailed former Agriprocessors official Sholom Rubashkin will be featured on an episode of the CNBC series "American Greed."
The March 23 episode of the cable TV network series will tell the story of the failed kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, according to the Gazette of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The episode is being billed with the tagline “The head of a kosher slaughterhouse uses unorthodox methods to make money.”
Rubashkin, 51, is serving a 27-year prison sentence and was ordered to pay $26 million in restitution after being convicted in November 2009 on 86 counts of financial wrongdoing. He was the highest level executive of the plant to be prosecuted following a May 2008 immigration raid that led to the arrest of nearly 400 illegal workers, most of whom were deported.
The plant went bankrupt in late 2008 and has since reopened under new ownership as Agri Star Meat and Poultry.
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Opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the JVNA, unless otherwise indicated, but may be presented to increase awareness and/or to encourage respectful dialogue. Also, material re conferences, retreats, forums, trips, and other events does not necessarily imply endorsement by JVNA or endorsement of the kashrut, Shabbat observances, or any other Jewish observances, but may be presented for informational purposes. Please use e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and web sites to get further information about any event that you are interested in. Also, JVNA does not necessarily agree with all positions of groups whose views are included or whose events are announced in this newsletter.
Opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the JVNA, unless otherwise indicated, but may be presented to increase awareness and/or to encourage respectful dialogue. Also, material re conferences, retreats, forums, trips, and other events does not necessarily imply endorsement by JVNA or endorsement of the kashrut, Shabbat observances, or any other Jewish observances, but may be presented for informational purposes. Please use e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and web sites to get further information about any event that you are interested in. Also, JVNA does not necessarily agree with all positions of groups whose views are included or whose events are announced in this newsletter.
FAIR USE NOTICE
The material on this site is provided for educational and informational purposes. It may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. It is being made available in an effort to advance the understanding of vegetarian, environmental, nutritional, health, economic, social justice and human rights issues etc. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have an interest in using the included information for educational or research purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. The information on this site does not constitute legal, technical or medical advice.
The material on this site is provided for educational and informational purposes. It may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. It is being made available in an effort to advance the understanding of vegetarian, environmental, nutritional, health, economic, social justice and human rights issues etc. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have an interest in using the included information for educational or research purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. The information on this site does not constitute legal, technical or medical advice.