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While they don't come in a jar, this vegan version of the traditional fish dish looks authentic. Serve on Passover or all year round!
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 POETRY AND FICTION - Belles-Lettres is the poetry and fiction section of ShalomVeg. Read the current edition for creative writing from our community, comment on what you see and submit your own work to share with others.
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 ARTICLES AND ESSAYS - Learn about Jewish views of animals, eating and ethics from our growing article collection. You can also submit your own articles and essays to the site and have your writing published.
 MULTIMEDIA - Visit the multimedia section of ShalomVeg to see our selection of videos and audio including the new Jewish Vegetarians of North America documentary, A Sacred Duty.
 NEW VEGETARIAN OR VEGAN? ShalomVeg has a collection of articles covering the basics of veg*n and animal rights issues. Learn about modern farming methods, animal rights philosophy, vegetarian health and activism tips.
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 |
Judaism, Hunger and VegetarianismBy Richard Schwartz World hunger statistics are staggering: Over 1 billion people, nearly a fifth of the world's population, are chronically undernourished. Between 700 and 800 million people lack sufficient income to obtain the basic necessities of life. It has been estimated that twenty million people die annually due to hunger and its effects, including diseases brought on by lowered resistance due to malnutrition. Children are particularly victimized by malnutrition. Three out of four who die due to hunger are children. In poor countries, over 40 percent of all deaths occur among children under five years old. Almost 6 percent of the world's children die before their first birthday. At least 100,000 children annually go blind due to vitamin A deficiency in their diet. Malnourishment also brings listlessness and reduced capacity for learning and activities, which perpetuates the legacy of poverty. | | No comments for this item |
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
A Meaningful Life: Animal Advocacy, Human Nature, & A Better WorldMatt Ball, Co-founder, Vegan Outreach From VeganOutreach.com Effective advocates — those who are truly successful in fostering change — are thoughtful psychologists. They understand that each of us is born with a certain intrinsic nature. We are then raised to adopt certain beliefs, and taught to hold specific prejudices. Over time, we discover new “truths” and abandon others; we mix and match, supplement and refine, continually altering our collection of attitudes, principles, and values. | | No comments for this item |
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
Belles-LettresThe Poetry and Fiction Pages of ShalomVeg
Edition#2 - April 29, 2008 A special spotlight... THE SUBLIME GARDENS OF POET LYNN SAUL It is a pleasure to spotlight the work of poet Lynn Saul, whose compassionate and deeply thoughtful world view inspire and move the reader. Savor her poetry, and then read on to glean insights from her life and experience in the interview that follows. THE GARDENS
In Poroskó my ancestors were tenant farmers hired other laborers to work the fields which Jews were not allowed to own
Wheat, cabbages, corn perhaps They had orchards of plums peaches, apples
Always the flowers four-o-clocks daisies clematis wild blooms
in well-kept rows the green effusion of grape leaves
Along the river and in every yard grew willows Even on the gravestones graceful willows watered like the Tree of Life promised a rooted soul.
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
Animals, Slavery and the Holocaust By Charles Patterson Where does all the war, racism, terrorism, violence, and cruelty that's so endemic to human civilization come from? Why do humans exploit and massacre each other so regularly? Why is our species so violence-prone? To answer these questions we would do well to think about our exploitation and slaughter of animals and its effect on human civilization. Could it be that we oppress and kill each other so readily because our abuse and slaughter of animals has desensitized us to the suffering and death of others?
The "domestication" of animals--the exploitation of goats, sheep, cattle, and other animals for their meat, milk, hides, and labor that began in the Near East about 11,000 years ago--changed human history. In earlier hunter-gatherer societies there had been some sense of kinship between humans and animals, reflected in totemism and myths which portrayed animals, or part-animal part-human creatures, as creators and progenitors of the human race. However, mankind crossed the Rubicon when Near Eastern herdsmen and farmers started castrating, hobbling, and branding captive animals to control their mobility, diet, growth, and reproductive lives. To distance themselves emotionally from the cruelty they inflicted, they adopted mechanisms of detachment, rationalization, denial, and euphemism, and in the process became a harder, more ruthless lot. | | No comments for this item |
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
Working to Create a More Veg Friendly Neighborhood?  OK, so it really means "House and Garden", but we can dream can't we? (Photo of a street sign from the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem) | | No comments for this item |
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
Kitniyot-A Vegetarian Perspective By BVeg As we plan our menus for the upcoming Passover holiday, most of us have a good sense of what we will be eating. There are of course the traditional foods: maror, haroset, matzo ball soup (possibly made vegetarian) and plenty of crispy matzo. But there are also the dishes unique to our families: grandma’s mock kishke, dad’s sweet mandle bread, your famous locally grown, organic, hametz-free, vegan nut burgers. These “family” foods are part of the customs we look forward to most and miss when not at home, along with the stories, the singing and the community. And for some of us, part of our holiday tradition is not to eat beans, rice and corn—kitniyot--during the holiday. Most likely this is not out of a strict adherence to Jewish law, but instead is part of the powerful pull that tradition and custom has on our lives.
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