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JVS Jerusalem / Ginger – the Vegetarian Community Centre in Jerusalem
The JVS in Jerusalem was founded in 1991 by Philip Pick, to be a centre for the promotion of vegetarianism as a means to advance the physical, mental, moral and economic improvement of humankind. In 1992 the Society entered its venue in central Jerusalem, now known as Ginger – the Vegetarian Community Center in Jerusalem. […]
Venue hire and residential lettings
Venue Hire The brand new JVS hall, conference room, kitchen and garden is available for hire, click here for more information including hire rates. Residential Lettings The JVS building has a number of studio flats it lets, which are ideal for people who follow an animal-free diet. Please call 020 8455 0692 / email [email protected] […]
What we do
JVS is an international charity dedicated to promoting a kinder world, without killing animals for food. We spread awareness of the benefits of rejecting cruelty to animals and the extension of this to an improved society where mankind is not cruel to fellow beings, both human and animals. These sentiments are expressed in the Torah, which teaches […]
Sprouted wild rice & beetroot salad
Wild rice is wildly nutritious. Containing high levels of protein, fiber, iron, and calcium, wild rice is also gluten-free. It is extremely high in folic acid, an essential B-complex vitamin lacking in many people’s diets. Just half a cup of cooked wild rice yields 21.3 mcg of folic acid, where brown rice offers only […]
History of the JVS
The Jewish Vegetarian Society was founded in the 1960s following a letter from Vivien Pick to the Jewish Chronicle asking if there were like-minded vegetarians who wanted to meet. Vivien’s father Philip, who had always wished for a kinder society, free of pain and cruelty to other sentient creatures, became the President of the Society. […]
Staff and Trustee Board
Our Team JVS is led by a full-time Director, and supported by five trustees, as well as Patrons worldwide. Trustee Board: Michael Freedman (Treasurer), Dan Jacobs (Chair), Rosanna Rafel, Kevin Sefton Patrons: Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg (UK) Adam Jackson (UK) Rabbi David Rosen (Israel) Ori Shavit (Israel) Professor Richard Schwartz (USA) Roberta Kalechofsky (USA) Dr Michael […]
Beet Pesto
Recipe courtesy of International Year of Pulses. In December 2013, the United Nations General Assembly (UN) voted unanimously to declare 2016 the International Year of Pulses (IYP). Since 1959, the UN has dedicated special years and observances to promote international awareness and action on various topics. Throughout 2016 the Global Pulse Confederation (GPC) will celebrate, […]
Guardian feature: Dairy is scary. The public are waking up to the darkest part of farming
The photo of calves in cramped pens will shock many, and with so many non-dairy alternatives now, consumers have a choice, writes Chas Newkey Burden for the Guardian. Photographs of industrial rows of cramped pens, each imprisoning a solitary calf, will shock those who still believe in the fairytale of the pastoral dairy farm, where […]
TV Special: Jewish vegan Simon Amstell’s comedy drama Carnage is out now
It’s 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed in his new comedy drama Carnage. Click here to watch it on BBC iPlayer.
Sign our petition to ban the killing of male chicks by suffocating and grinding
We are pleased to announce that we have started a petition to ask parliament to ban the killing for one-day-old male chicks. Every year in the UK four million male chicks are ground up, gassed or suffocated alive because their gender means they can’t lay eggs. The process involves humans quickly checking the sex of the chick after hatching. […]