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About me: Because the world is heading rapidly toward an unprecedented catastrophe from global warming and other environmental threats, Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA) has produced a documentary, A SACRED DUTY: APPLYING JEWISH VALUES TO HELP HEAL THE WORLD, to address these threats from a positive Jewish perspective. JVNA will send a free copy to anyone who will help arrange a screening or help promote the movie in some other way.
Almost daily there are reports of severe droughts, floods, storms or wildfires, of the melting of glaciers and polar icecaps and other indicators of global warming. It is frightening that, while these effects are due to an increase in temperature of less than 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 100 years, the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group composed of hundreds of the world's climate scientists, is projecting an increase of 3 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit in the next 100 years.
Even more ominous is that some climate scientists, including James Hansen of NASA, are warning that global warming may reach a tipping point and spiral out of control within a decade, with disastrous consequences, unless major changes are soon made. Israel is especially vulnerable to global climate change, in terms of reduced rainfall, severe storms and flooding from a rising Mediterranean Sea.
A SACRED DUTY is a Jewish response to these realities. It reminds us that it is our sacred duty to become aware of current threats and our responsibility to apply Jewish teachings to how we obtain our food, use natural resources, and live among other creatures whom God created. It offers simple, practical measures for reducing our impact on the planet, including “an inconvenient truth” that even Al Gore has not yet acknowledged.
Produced by the highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning film maker, Lionel Friedberg, A SACRED DUTY reinforces the messages in Al Gore's AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and Leonardo DiCaprio's, THE ELEVENTH HOUR about the dangers of global warming. However, it goes beyond these films, by showing how religious responses can make a major difference and why a shift toward plant-based diets is an essential part of efforts to reduce global climate change and other environmental threats.
It also challenges people to consider the many moral issues related to our diets, including Torah teachings on how animals are treated on factory farms and the effects on human health and the environment.
The documentary features interviews with leading Israeli and American environmental, health, vegetarian and animal rights activists as well as
Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist and secular leaders.
Interviewees include: Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Haifa; Rabbi David Rosen, Former Chief Rabbi of Ireland and International Director of Interreligious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee; Dr. Yeshayahu Bar-Or, Chief Scientist: Israel Environmental Ministry and many other rabbis and Jewish leaders and activists.
Biblical passages are read by the acclaimed Jewish star of Broadway and screen Theodore Bikel
Although it is primarily intended for a Jewish audience, A SACRED DUTY speaks to people everywhere about the ethics of our relationship to the natural world in which we live. The movie's universal message will appeal to anyone interested in such topics as biblical teachings, Israel, the environment, health, nutrition, vegetarianism, hunger and resource usage. The movie may be said to be like Levy's Jewish Rye bread - you do not have to be Jewish to appreciate it.
A SACRED DUTY and the many activities being planned around it have the potential to help move our imperiled world toward a sustainable path. But only if the movie is widely viewed and discussed.
So, please order your FREE copy and please consider taking one or more of the following actions after viewing the movie: have viewings for family, neighbors and friends; try to schedule showings at a local school, a synagogue and/or other houses of worship, a community center or other communal site, etc.; share the DVD with local rabbis and other religious leaders, teachers, politicians and other local influential people.
You can request a free DVD by sending your name and mailing address to JVNA's secretary/treasurer John Diamond at jdiamond4@cox.net. If you feel that you can profitably use more than one DVD, just let John know, with a brief description of how you plan to use them.
JVNA plans to build a major campaign around the movie to get tikkun olam (the repair and healing of the world) to become a central focus in Jewish life today, with a shift toward plant-based diets as an essential part of the changes that can help move our imperiled planet to a sustainable path. If you would like to be involved in the campaign or have suggestions, please contact Richard Schwartz at President@JewishVeg.com.
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Who I'd like to meet:
The documentary includes
interviews with:
Chief Rabbis
Rabbi Shear
Yashuv Cohen -- Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of
Haifa Rabbi David Rosen -- Former Chief
Rabbi of Ireland; International Director
of Interreligious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee
Other Rabbis
Rabbi Michael
Cohen - Director of the Green Zionist Alliance
(GZA) and a
teacher at the Arava Institute in Israel Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb, Adat
Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation; environmental
activist Rabbi Adam Frank - Congregation
Moreshet Yisrael, Jerusalem, the largest Conservative
synagogue in Israel Rabbi Yonassan Gershom - A Breslov
Chassid and author Rabbi Simchah Roth - Torat Hayyim,
Herzilia Rabbi Warren Stone - Temple Emanuel,
greater Washington, D.C.; Chair,
Central Conference of American Rabbis' Environmental
Committee
Israeli Environmentalists
Dr. Yeshayahu
Bar-Or - Chief Scientist: Israel Environmental
Ministry Raanan Boral - Director: Environmental
Protection Division of the for the
Society of Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) Samuel Chayen - Israeli environmental
activist Yael Cohen Paran, Yair Cohen and Eren Ben
Yaminy - Leaders of Green
Course, an Israeli university-based environmental
group Eli Groner - Teacher of environmental
studies at the Arava Institute Alon Tal - Leading Israeli environmentalist;
founder of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense:
author of Pollution in a Promised Land. Yael Ukeles - Director: Derech
Hateva, Jerusalem
Prominant Activists
Dr. Joel Fuhrman,
M.D. - A leading author and physician with
a specialty in natural healing Roberta Kalechofsky - Founder and
director of Jews for Animal Rights (JAR) and Micah
Publications; author, editor and publisher. Richard H. Schwartz - Author of
Judaism and Vegetarianism and president
of Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA) Jonathan Wolf - Founder and first
president of Jewish Vegetarians of North America
(JVNA)
Lionel Friedberg,
cinematographer: 18 feature film credits
as Director of Photography. Awards include A Primetime
Emmy, a National Emmy, the American Association for
the Advancement of Science 'Westinghouse' Award for
Science Programming, three Columbus and three Golden
Eagles for Best Documentaries, and various awards
as a dramatic and episodic TV director.
i thought you might like to vote and pass this on to people you know. top ideas will be presented to the Obama Administration
Vegan School Lunch options Require USDA to facilitate healthful plant-based school lunch options as a means of promoting public health, environmental quality, and animal rights.
We want to thank you so much for your friendship and support. I would like to share with you our latest rescue effort. We heisted her from a yard before her first fight. She was heavily chained with full body harness. They may have beaten her and had taken away her ears but they could not take away her beautiful spirit. Her name is Chyna. In spite of all she has has to endure, she is still such a love! Thanks again for your friendship and support. May you receive many blessings and joy through all your efforts and success! Susanna~crittercrusader
We want to thank you so much for your friendship and support. I would like to share with you our latest rescue effort. We heisted her from a yard before her first fight. She was heavily chained with full body harness. They may have beaten her and had taken away her ears but they could not take away her beautiful spirit. Her name is Chyna. In spite of all she has has to endure, she is still such a love! Thanks so much again for your friendship and support and for all you do for our critters!!! Respectfully Susanna~crittercrusader new vegan and loving every minute!!!
Thank you for your friendship and your compassion for marine life. Please join us in chat at www. myspace. com/starwarsfan1974 to discuss environmental and wildlife issues with like minded individuals.
What is it all about anyway - Alfy of course :) lol
Just sharing a bit of good news with you about our very wonderful and new project :)
A book of poetry created by Elaine & Rod Remnant-Ashton has been launched this month, to raise funds for the care of the animals on Jollity Farm, a small shelter in Gerrans, Cornwall where Mary Alice and her husband Chris rescue displaced, unwanted and animals who were doomed for slaughter. Jollity Farm provides sanctuary for them, for the rest of their natural lives.
The book is a collection of poetry and prose, written by friends of animals from around the world. Authors penned their thoughts on a wide variety of subjects concerned with animal welfare and rights, including contributions from actress Melita Morgan, Agent For Change, The Scary Guy, singer/songwriter Maria Daines, writers Mark David Hatwood, Frank. E. Bittinger and many more.
Mary Alice said the book is dedicated to the memory of her beloved rescue dog Alfy, who passed away earlier this year just before his 18th Birthday. 'It's a testament to the united love and compassion people feel for animals, and I hope it will help to make people a little more aware of the plight of sentient beings in society today. I wanted this book to have a little something for all age groups and I'm very pleased to say, with the help of some wonderful talents and caring people, it is just that !'
The online store on leigh-chantelle. com has been launched this week! See leigh-chantelle. com for black and white block mounts, canvases, cds, lyric clothing, magnets, recipe calendars and cards, stickers and new vegan message t-shirts! Let me know what you think ;)
may the entire Jewish nation recognize that the source of "a land of milk and honey" comes from almond milk and the honey from dates, both native to the Holly Land
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