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Vegan Passover Guide for a Compassionate Seder!
Passover is the perfect time of year to reflect on our past and celebrate our freedom. And as we remember the Exodus from ancient Egypt, we can also take a moment to think about the freedom of animals, especially those in today’s agriculture industry. Sadly, animals are statistically the population to face the most amount…
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Go vegan for Tu B’Shevat!
Weâre wishing you and yours a joyful, plant-powered Tu BâShevat, Chag Sameach! ×Öˇ× ×ŠÖ¸××Öľ×Öˇ Tu B’Shevat, the environmentally-focused Jewish holiday celebrating the new year of the trees, is the perfect time to start your plant-based journey or to inspire someone in your life to start theirs! It’s been argued that Tu B’Shevat is the most…
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2022 Vegan Chanukah Guide
Chanukah begins on the evening of December 18th. We are excited to share our Chanukah Holiday guide with you! It’s filled with information about the holiday and how we can tie it to animal advocacy. We are thrilled with the delicious holiday recipes and are very thankful to each of our contributors. We hope you…
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Vegan Thanksgiving Guide 2022!
By Emma Goldblatt We wish you and your loved ones a Happy Thanksgiving! In this guide you will find Vegan versions of a few Thanksgiving dishes, as well as ways to help Turkeys this time of year. shamayim.us/donate Vegan Thanksgiving Recipes! Be Kind to Turkeys! Here are some interesting facts about turkeys:â đŚ They can…
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The Greatest Farm Animal Protection Law is Under Attack!
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz While the fight to create sweeping change on the justice issues we care about can sometimes seem hopeless, Californiaâs Prop 12, which prevents animals from being held in âa cruel mannerâ has been a source of optimism in the realm of animal rights. âProp 12 is the strongest farm animal protection law in the United States…
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5 (Jewish) Ways You Can Go Vegan if Youâre Not Ready To Go Vegan
August 4th, 2022 RABBI SHMULY YANKLOWITZ Judaism demands that we clamor for and work toward the ideal version of the world, in which there is no violence, no injustice, and no suffering. One needs only to go outside or to read a newspaper to realize weâre not there yet. But there is one respect in…
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A Yom Kippur of Mercy or Cruelty?
September 26th, 2011 RABBI SHMULY YANKLOWITZ Some Jews have a medieval custom to sacrifice a chicken before Yom Kippur, âkaporos.â One grabs the chickenâs legs while pinning its wings back and swings it around oneâs head. These chickens are packed into crates before this procedure and then usually sent to be slaughtered after. Others are…
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How Kosher is Your Milk?
June 7th, 2012 RABBI SHMULY YANKLOWITZ On our wedding day last year, my wife and I decided that, due to our Jewish convictions, we would no longer drink milk or consume any dairy products. This is a vow we have remained deeply committed to, but we never expected it to become mainstream. Then we found…
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Praying with Compassion: Time for Vegan Tefillin!
June 24th, 2012 RABBI SHMULY YANKLOWITZ Could we create vegan tefillin? By vegan tefillin, I do not, of course, mean tefillin made from corn. That would not fulfill the holy mitzvah. But could we ensure that our Jewish ritual objects, which must come from animals, are obtained in a cruelty-free manner? Tefillin is a very…
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A People of Compassion Calling for Transparency in Animal Cruelty
April 9th, 2013 RABBI SHMULY YANKLOWITZ A Jew is expected to be obsessed with compassion. The Sages taught that being compassionate is a prerequisite to truly be Jewish: âJews are compassionate children of compassionate ancestors (rachmanim bânei rachmanim) and one who is not compassionate cannot truly be a descendant of our father Abrahamâ (Beitzah 32b). The…
Shamayim: Jewish Animal Advocacy 