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Rosh Hashanah and Vegetarianism

Posted by rschwartz on August 27th, 2008

Rosh Hashanah is the time when Jews take stock of their lives and consider new beginnings. Perhaps the most significant and meaningful change that Jews should consider this year is a shift away from diets that have been having devastating effects on human health and the health of our increasingly imperiled planet. While many Jews […]

A Lesson From Kosovars And Palestinians For Atlasians

Posted by Gerald Honigman on August 21st, 2008

Now tell me…What would you do in the age of nationalism–which came relatively late to the Middle East–if your national group already had almost two dozen states on over six million square miles of territory (conquered mostly from other national groups), wanted to create at least one more, but another people’s sole, tiny, resurrected nation […]

Travel to Israel

Posted by ykagan on August 19th, 2008

It is a new nation in an ancient land - reborn in 1948, when, out of the ashes of the Holocaust, and in spite of violent opposition in the Arab world, the modern state of Israel was estab¬lished at long last.
This year, you, too, can be a part of the Jewish state’s amazing history, when […]

Of Kurds And Arabs: Beyond Ignorance…

Posted by Gerald Honigman on August 6th, 2008

If it was just another State Department travesty, I could accept it.
After all, I’m used to the Foggy Folks doing such things as fighting President Truman over his supporting Israel’s very rebirth; concocting latter day Arafatian Fatah “good cops” to force down Israel’s throat (knowing that on the issue of a […]

Jews should shift toward vegetarianism

Posted by rschwartz on August 1st, 2008

For many years, Jewish Vegetarians of North America has argued that vegetarianism should be on the Jewish agenda and that Jews should shift toward vegetarianism because the production and consumption of meat and other animal products:
1) violate at least six basic Jewish mandates (see supplementary material at the end of this message);
2) are causing an […]