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Praying with Compassion: Time for Vegan Tefillin!

By Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
http://www.jewishjournal.com/socialjusticerav/item/praying_with_compassion_time_for_vegan_tefillin_20120624/

Noah: My Animal Welfare Hero
By Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/noah-my-animal-welfare-hero/


Can't Give up Brisket? Then Start with Veal!

By Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/cant-give-up-brisket-then-start-with-veal/

A People of Compassion Calling for Transparency in Animal Cruelty!

By Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-people-of-compassion-calling-for-transparency-in-animal-cruelty/

Tnuva: Addressing the Current Animal Welfare Crisis

By Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/tnuva-addressing-the-current-animal-welfare-crisis/

How Kosher is Your Milk?

By Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
http://www.jewishjournal.com/socialjusticerav/item/rabbi_herschel_schachters_chumra_on_milk_abuse_in_the_dairy_industry_201206/

An Obesity Problem in the Orthodox Community?

By Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
http://www.jewishjournal.com/socialjusticerav/item/an_obesity_problem_in_the_orthodox_community/

The Health Risks of Meat Consumption

By Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
http://www.jewishjournal.com/socialjusticerav/item/the_health_risks_of_meat_consumption/

Caged and Traumatized: A Closer Look at the Egg Industry

By Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
http://www.jewishjournal.com/socialjusticerav/item/caged_and_traumatized_a_closer_look_at_the_egg_industry/

Passover Survival Tips for Vegans

By Mayim Bialik
http://www.kveller.com/blog/parenting/passover-survival-tips-for-vegans/

Jewcology: Compassion For All Creatures

By Rabbi David Sears
http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=262454

Vegetarianism and Judaism: The Rav's Radical View

By David Errico-Nagar
http://www.kolhamevaser.com/2012/02/vegetarianism-and-judaism-the-ravs-radical-view/

Creatures in the Nation-State

By Rabbi Shumly Yanklowitz
http://www.jewishideas.org/articles/creatures-nation-state

A Yom Kippur of Mercy or Cruelty?

By Rabbi Shumly Yanklowitz
http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/street_torah/yom_kippur_mercy_or_cruelty

The Purpose Of Creation

By Rabbi Shumly Yanklowitz
http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/street_torah/purpose_creation

Vegetarianism from a Jewish Perspective

By Rabbi Alfred S. Cohen
http://ethics.rabbinics.org/Cohen_Vegetarianism.pdf

Vegetarianism: An Alternative Kashrut

By Rabbi Arthur Green
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/practices/Ritual/Kashrut_Dietary_Laws/Themes/Contemporary_Themes/Vegetarianism/Alternative_Kashrut.shtml

Why an observant Jew should follow a plant-based (vegan) diet

By Rabbi Simchah Roth
http://www.bmv.org.il/v/vegan.html

What's Jewish about a Vegan Diet?

By Rabbi Adam Frank
http://www.chai-online.org/en/compassion/judaism/heritage_judaism_vegan.htm

Veganism and the Jewish Dietary Laws

By Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D.
http://jewishveg.com/schwartz/dietlaws.html

The Four Questions: Matisyahu

http://heebnvegan.blogspot.com/2010/04/four-questions-matisyahu.html

Faith Lectures: The Messianic Idea Today

http://www.chiefrabbi.org/ReadArtical.aspx?id=455

Rabbi Sperber on the Jewish Case for Vegetarianism

http://heebnvegan.blogspot.com/2009/05/rabbi-sperber-on-jewish-case-for.html

Meat your morality

By Rabbi David Aaron
http://jewishworldreview.com/0405/aaron_meat.php3

Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer's New Book Asks Why Don't We Eat Pets?

By Rabbi David Wolpe
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/rabbi-david-wolpe/ieating-animalsi-jonathan_b_337578.html

Tzaar Baalei Hayim and Shabbat: A Teshuvah for Our Time

By Asher Shasho-Levy
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Compassion over Cruelty

By Anne Goldin

Toward a modern Jewish New Year for the Animals

By Yonassan Gershom


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The Shamayim V'Aretz Institute, a community of Jewish vegans, is working to create a paradigm shift in how the Jewish community views veganism.
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