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PRESS RELEASES- Global Warming and Other Environmental Threats

   

Jewish Group Sees Rabbi Yoffie's Appeal to Reform Jews to Eat Less Meat as Important First Step, November 10, 2009

   

Jewish Group Urges Dietary Shifts on “World Water Day” to Alleviate Severe Israeli Drought, March 20, 2009

   
Jewish Group Urges Jewish Community to Respond to Global Environmental Threats and Moral Issues Related to Diets, February 20, 2009
   
Changing Diet Can Protect Israel from Climate Catastrophe, January 25, 2009
   

Jewish Group urges a 'Global Warming-Response Shabbat', November 27, 2008

   

Jewish Group Commends Conservative Movement for “Green” Initiative; Urges Further Steps, August 28, 2008

   
Jewish Group Challenges Al Gore for Failing to Address an Inconvenient Truth, July 18, 2008
   
JVNA Starts Campaign to Challenge Rabbis to Put Dietary Connections to Global Warming onto the Jewish Agenda, June 26, 2008
   
Jewish Vegetarian Group Sees Shift Toward Veganism as Solution to Current Food Crises, Other Societal Problems, May 5. 2008
   
Jewish Community Urged to Respond to Global Warming and Other Environmental Threats, October 28, 2007
   

Jewish Group urges Shift to Vegetarianism to Save Humanity, January 29. 2006

PRESS RELEASES - Jewish Holidays

Jewish Group Urges that Lessons of Tisha B'Av be Applied to Current Environmental Threats, July 7, 2011

   
Jewish Group Urges Consideration of Global Warming, Energy and Diet on Birkat HaChamah, March 30, 2009
   

Jewish Group Urges that Tu B'Shevat be Considered a Jewish Earth Day, January 11, 2009

PRESS RELEASES - Agriprocessors Postville Kosher Slaughterhouse


Jewish Group Supports Humanitarian Efforts to Aid Postville Workers, Community, November 17, 2008
   
Jewish Group Welcomes Shift to Vegetarianism Due to Kosher Meat Shortage, November 13, 2008
   
Jewish Group Urges that Agriprocessors Violations be Seen as Wake Up Call to How Animal-Based Diets Violate Jewish Teachings, Harm Jews and the Environment, August 8, 2008
   

Group Claims Rabbis in Denial of Current Realities, June 6, 2008

USA: Jewish Vegetarian Group condemns abuses at Rubashkin's Nebraska slaughterhouse, July 16, 2007

PRESS RELEASES - Compassion

Jewish Group Supports Israeli Knesset Bill to Prohibit Fur Industry in Israel, March 24, 2009

   

Jewish Group Condemns Plans toSlaughter Goats at Hazon Conference, November 27, 2007

 

 

Jewish Vegetarian Group Commends Israeli Chief Rabbis for Plans to Phase Out Shackling and Hoisting/Urges Further Steps, February 20, 2008

   

PRESS RELEASES - Health

Jewish Group Urges Swine Flu Outbreak be Seen as Wake-Up Call to Consider Health and Moral Issues Related to Diets, April 28, 2009

   

PRESS RELEASES - Ethics

Jewish Group Commends Rabbinical Council of America's Ethical Initiative; Urges Further Steps, September 25, 2008

   

Jewish Group Commends Reform Movement for Aupporting “Hekhsher Tzedek” Campaign: Urges Further Steps, September 3, 2008

PRESS RELEASES - Challenging the Establishment

Jewish Group Calls Animal-Based Diets and Agriculture "Madness and Sheer Insanity"; Urges Jewish Community to Respond to the Many Moral Issues Related to Our Diets, May 25, 2009

   

PRESS RELEASES - Vegetarian Diets for Special Circumstances

Rabbis Endorse Vegetarian Diets; Say Rights of Jewish Prisoners Violated, August 9, 2004

   

MEDIA
Special Articles on Judiasm and Vegetarianism

How Kosher is Your Milk?, by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, JewishJournal.com, June 7, 2012

   

God of the Earth: When eating meat was a sacrifice, The Jerusalem Post, March 18, 2011 [NOTE: some of the action suggestions at the end of the original article were edited out "for space considerations".]

   
Animal Agriculture Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, June 6, 2008
   
Vegetarian group urges a meatless Shabbat Staten Island Advance, June 6, 2008
   
The Cost-Benefit Approach to God's Law New Jersey Jewish Standard, May 30, 2008
   
Why I Became A Vegan Julep, December 6, 2007
   
Recipes for a Hannukah Feast Cape Cod Times, December 5, 2007
   
Film aims to show Jewish values can 'help save the world' Haaretz, November 20, 2007
   
Jews Ban Beef to Save the World? Jerusalem Post, November 18, 2007
   
Passover traditions evolve to include vegan Seder The Record, March 31, 2007
   
Passover meal gets veggie makeover Lawrence Journal-World, March 31, 2007
   
Jewish Vegetarians Unite The Blueprint, May 2006
 
Slaughterhouse Rules The Forward, May 26, 2006
 
Be Kind to Animals The Atlanta Jewish Times, May 9, 2006
 
Video Takes Bite Out of Kosher Slaughter Jewish Journal, April 21, 2006
 
The First Hamburger: Rabbi Gellman on the Case for Vegetarianism Newsweek, April 20, 2006
 
Vegetarian Jews Improvise On Symbolic Passover Plates Tampa Tribune April 12, 2006
 
When 'kosher' slaughter is not Jewish Jerusalem Post, March 30, 2006
 
Ranks of Kosher Vegetarians Soars as Industry Meets the Needs Kosher Today, November 14, 2005
 
Eat Your Vegetables Jewish Week, November 13, 2005
 
Kosher Vegetarians Jewish Ledger, November 11, 2005 (Top 10 Reasons)
 
No Meat Today Jewish Chronicle, July 22, 2005
 
A Holocaust-Inspired Vegetarian The Jewish Journal, June 14, 2005
 
Meat Your Morality Jewish World Review, April 2004
 
Pork -- It's What's for Purim Jewsweek, March 2005
 
When Kosher Isn't Kosher Tikkun, March/April 2005
 

Food for thought on Judaism and vegetarianism Canadian Jewish News, January 6, 2005

 

Should Jews Still Eat Meat? San Diego Jewish Journal, January 2005

   

What's bad for the goose... must stop, committee says Jerusalem Post, January 4, 2005

   

Jewish Vegetarian Runs for Texas Governor Ft. Worth Star Telegram, December 30, 2004

   

Cutting-Edge Kashrut Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2004

   

Let Postville be a Wakeup Call: Kosher slaughterhouse horrors highlight cruelty of modern meat The Aquarian, December 4, 2004

   

New York Author Decries Neglect of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's Legacy eMedia Wire, July 6, 2004

   
The Greening of Ansche Chesed The Jewish Week, May 28, 2004
   

PETA and the Jewish Question Falmouth Jewish Confregation, April 2004

   
Meat, passed over Newsday, April 4, 2004
   
Making different kind of Seder in the desert Beacon Journal, March 31, 2004
   
A Vegan, Organic, Uncooked Seder Bergen Record, March 31, 2004
   
Veggie Jews: Thou shalt not eat meat — that’s a religious recipe for Bay Area vegetarians The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, March 19, 2004
   
Queen Esther was a Vegetarian Israel Insider, March 5, 2004
   
Husband-Wife Teamwork: "A Higher Version of Kosher is Vegetarianism" Syracuse Post-Standard, November 9, 2003
   
Many Jews using new year celebration to give up meat The Salt Lake Tribune, September 20, 2003
   
Ask the Rabbi: Vegetarianism Ohr Somayach International (an important Israeli Yeshiva), September 13, 2003
   
Force-feeding geese is cruel, High Court rules Haaretz, August 12, 2003
   
Albert Einstein, Kafka and I.B. Singer: The argument for Jewish vegetarianism JTA News, June 28, 2003
   
Should Jews Be Vegetarians? Jewish Press, February 18, 2003
   
Environment Author Finds World's Condition Critical Staten Island Advance, October 4, 2002
   
Responding Jewishly to Environmental Crises Jewsweek, September 22, 2002.
   
Vegetables Preferable to the Appetite for Meat Maariv, September 5, 2002.
   

10 reasons why Jews should not be vegetarians—and why they're all wrong Jewsweek.com, June 17, 2002.

   

Author sticks with message that eating meat isn't Jewish Staten Island Advance, May 25, 2001.

   

Reform rabbis debate virtues of a veggie diet San Francisco Jewish Bulletin

   

Killing for Food: Mitzvah or Sin? Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, April 27, 2001.

PRESS RELEASES- Global Warming and Other Environmental Threats

   

Jewish Group Sees Rabbi Yoffie's Appeal to Reform Jews to Eat Less Meat as Important First Step, November 10, 2009

   

Jewish Group Urges Dietary Shifts on “World Water Day” to Alleviate Severe Israeli Drought, March 20, 2009

   
Jewish Group Urges Jewish Community to Respond to Global Environmental Threats and Moral Issues Related to Diets, February 20, 2009
   
Changing Diet Can Protect Israel from Climate Catastrophe, January 25, 2009
   

Jewish Group urges a 'Global Warming-Response Shabbat', November 27, 2008

   

Jewish Group Commends Conservative Movement for “Green” Initiative; Urges Further Steps, August 28, 2008

   
Jewish Group Challenges Al Gore for Failing to Address an Inconvenient Truth, July 18, 2008
   
JVNA Starts Campaign to Challenge Rabbis to Put Dietary Connections to Global Warming onto the Jewish Agenda, June 26, 2008
   
Jewish Vegetarian Group Sees Shift Toward Veganism as Solution to Current Food Crises, Other Societal Problems, May 5. 2008
   
Jewish Community Urged to Respond to Global Warming and Other Environmental Threats, October 28, 2007
   

Jewish Group urges Shift to Vegetarianism to Save Humanity, January 29. 2006

PRESS RELEASES - Jewish Holidays

Jewish Group Urges that Lessons of Tisha B'Av be Applied to Current Environmental Threats, July 7, 2011

   
Jewish Group Urges Consideration of Global Warming, Energy and Diet on Birkat HaChamah, March 30, 2009
   

Jewish Group Urges that Tu B'Shevat be Considered a Jewish Earth Day, January 11, 2009

PRESS RELEASES - Agriprocessors Postville Kosher Slaughterhouse


Jewish Group Supports Humanitarian Efforts to Aid Postville Workers, Community, November 17, 2008
   
Jewish Group Welcomes Shift to Vegetarianism Due to Kosher Meat Shortage, November 13, 2008
   
Jewish Group Urges that Agriprocessors Violations be Seen as Wake Up Call to How Animal-Based Diets Violate Jewish Teachings, Harm Jews and the Environment, August 8, 2008
   

Group Claims Rabbis in Denial of Current Realities, June 6, 2008

USA: Jewish Vegetarian Group condemns abuses at Rubashkin's Nebraska slaughterhouse, July 16, 2007

PRESS RELEASES - Compassion

Jewish Group Supports Israeli Knesset Bill to Prohibit Fur Industry in Israel, March 24, 2009

   

Jewish Group Condemns Plans toSlaughter Goats at Hazon Conference, November 27, 2007

 

 

Jewish Vegetarian Group Commends Israeli Chief Rabbis for Plans to Phase Out Shackling and Hoisting/Urges Further Steps, February 20, 2008

   

PRESS RELEASES - Health

Jewish Group Urges Swine Flu Outbreak be Seen as Wake-Up Call to Consider Health and Moral Issues Related to Diets, April 28, 2009

   

PRESS RELEASES - Ethics

Jewish Group Commends Rabbinical Council of America's Ethical Initiative; Urges Further Steps, September 25, 2008

   

Jewish Group Commends Reform Movement for Aupporting “Hekhsher Tzedek” Campaign: Urges Further Steps, September 3, 2008



VIDEOS


Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz discusses ten ways Jewish vegetarians can help create a better, more compassionate world. Find more videos from Rabbi Yanklowitz at Shamayim V'Aretz.