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Why Jews Should Oppose Ag-Gag Laws
Reproduced with kind permission from Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D. The current widespread mistreatment of animals in the food industry and especially on factory farms is inconsistent with Judaism’s ethic of compassion for animals. Most Jews are eating foods that entail animal abuse in almost all major phases of animal agriculture and slaughter. In addition to […]
Some Thoughts for Tu B’Shvat – Professor Richard Schwartz
Reproduced with kind permission from Professor Richard Schwartz: When God created the world, he was able to say, “It is very good”. Everything was in harmony as God had planned, the waters were clean, the air was pure. But what must God think about the world today? What must God think when the rain he […]