An initiative to get veganism onto thE upcoming Glasgow climate change conference/ALL the best/Richard
Richard Schwartz
Hi,
I have been working with the organization, Plant Based Treaty, in trying to get the
importance of shifts toward vegan diets in efforts to avert a climate catastrophe onto the agenda of the upcoming Glasgow climate conference.
As part of that effort, I helped compile the lists of religious leaders and veg activists below who signed a statement with that objective. You can read the statement at Interfaith Leaders Call for a Plant Based Treaty.
If you are already on the list, many thanks. Please check that your nam and ID are correct.
If you are not on the list and would like to be, please send me your name and a one sentence bio.
If you have suggestions about others I should contact about this, also please let me know.
It is important that the lists be as big as we can make them because they will released as part of a press release, a press conference at the climate event, and in other ways.
The order of the lists might be changed.
MANY thanks,
ALL the best,
Richard
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Rabbis
Jonathan Jaffe Bernhard, Executive Director Of Shamayim: Jewish Animal
Advocacy
Howard, Cohen, Congregation Shira Hayam
Rabbi Gabriel K Cousens, MD,MD(H), Director of Tree of Life Foundation and
Rabbi for Kehilat Etz Chaim Shul
Shammai Engelmayer, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Beth Israel of the Pal
isades.
kiva Gersh, teacher, writer, founder of "Vegan Rabbi" social media platform.
Ariella Graetz, Kehilat Emet Veshalom, Nahariya, Israel
Eli Herb, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom, Salem, Oregon.
Asa Keisar, Founder of Lechathila Organization and author of Velifnei Iver “[You
shall not put a stumbling block] Before the Blind.”
Dalia Marx, Rabbi Aaron Panken Professor of liturgy and Midrash, Hebrew Union
College - JIR, Jerusalem
Benjamin Munch, Kehillat Daniel, Jaffa, israel.
Yonatan Neril, founder and director of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Devel
opment and co-edirtor of “Eco Bible.”
Joel Pitkowsky-Conservative rabbi, Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck, NJ
Razed R, phael, Darkeynu, Melroe park, USA
David Rosen, former Chief Rabbi of Ireland and International Director of the
American Jewish Committee’s Interreligious Affairs.
Hanan Schlesinger, cofounder of Roots/Shorashim/Judur, a joint Palestinian-Israeli
grass roots peacemaking organization.
Haim Shalom, Kehillat Mevakshei Derech, Jerusalem
Yedidya Sinclair, former Vice President, Energiya Global
Barry Silver, Esq, Spiritual leader of Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor in Boynton Beach,
Florida and founder of Cosmic Judaism uniting science and religion
Elliot Skidell, retired, Hewlett, NY
Faith Stansnyder (Cantor), Music of Faith, Milwaukee, USA.
Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, PhD, Founder and President of Shamayim (a Jewish ani
mal advocacy movement) and the author of 21 books on Jewish ethics.
Moshe Yehudai, Raanana Congregation, Raanana, Israel
Jewish activists
Alicia Albek, Founder of Vamos Vegan, Jewish Veg National Board member, Re
silient Palisades Plant Based Solutions Team member
Lara Balsam, Director, Jewish Vegetarian Society UK
Dan Brook, PhD, Author of Eating the Earth and other books and Professor of so
ciology at Santa Clara University
Jeffrey Spitz Cohan, Executive Director, Jewish Veg
Lionel Friedberg, multi-award wining producer, director, screenwriter, and cine
matographer
David Krantz, president of Aytzim:: Ecological Judaism.
Dr Miriam Maisel MD, Family Practitioner, Lifestyle Medicine Physician, author,
lecturer on Winchester University Plant Based Nutrition Course
David Niekerk, Jewish Veg Board Chairman
Lewis Regenstein, author of several books on wildlife and the environment, in
cluding "Replenish the Earth: The Teachings of the World's Religions on Prtect
ing Animal and Nature”
Adit Romano, co-founder and co-director of Freedom Farm, an animal sanctuary
sin Israel.
Richard H. Schwartz, PhD, President Emeritus at the College of Staten Island, and
author of Judaism and Vegetarianism, Vegan Revolution: Saving Our World
and Revitalizing Judaism, and other books.
Yael Shemesh, Associate Professor in Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University and
head of Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Center for the Study of Women in Judaism.
J. 'VeganMan' Tucker, Chair, EarthSaveMiami.Org & CEO, Save The Earth Ecocenter
Jonathan Wolf, a founder and leader of Jewish environmental organizations and
projects since the 1 970s, including Jewish Vegetarians of North America
L’OLAM; The Jewish Environmental Network; the movement to revive & re
new the Tu B’Shvat Seder, and other groups. He us President and CEO of
YASHAR: the Institute for Jewish Activism
Organizations
Aytzim: Ecological Judaism (aytzim.org)
Climate Healers (ClimateHealers.org)
Christian Consortium
Christian Vegetarian Association (ChristianVeg.org)
EcoJews (aytzim.org)
FRA – Fraternité pour le respect animal
Freedom Farm, an animal sanctuary in Israel (Freedom-Farm.org.il)
Green Zionist Alliance (aytzim.org)
Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development
Interfaith Council for the Protection of Animals and Nature
Jewcology jewcology.org
Jewish Veg (JewishVeg.org)
Jewish Vegetarian Society - Israel
Jewish Vegetarian Society - UK (JVS.org.uk)
Jews of the Earth (AYTZIM.ORG)
Midrashet Darkeinu (darkaynu.org)
Shamayim: Jewish Animal Advocacy (shamayim.us )
Shomrei Breishit: Rabbis and Cantors for the Earth (aytzim.org)
Yossi Wolfson, coordinator of the Israeli Jewish Vegetarian Society.
Christian clergy members
Rev. Alice Dee, Biopantheist Minister, vegan animal rights activist, founder of We
Care About Animals, and author of Why Vegan? Reasons to Boycott Animal
Use.
Fr. Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi),
Rev. Shad Groverland, Executive Director, Unity Worldwide Ministries
Frank Hoffman, retired church pastor now serving the world as pastor of all-creatures.org.
Other religious leaders
Dr. J. Jina Shah, Committee Chair, Ahimsak Eco Vegan Committee
Rev. William Melton, The Compassion Consortium
Supreme master Ching Hai, major advocate for veganism worldwide.
Christian activists
Dr. Brandon Burr, Director of Food Policy, Center for a Humane Economy
Ellen Burr, environmental and climate activist.
Thomas Wade Jackson, Filmmaker and Executive Director of The Compassion
Project, Inc.
Stephen Kaufman, MD, Director of the Christian Vegetarian Association
Charles Patterson, writer, editor, therapist, historian, animal advocate, and award-
winning author of ten books, including Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of An
imals and the Holocaust
Marta Saratowicz, Christians for Animals, Poland
Estela Torres, FRA- Fraternité pour le respect animal
Other religious activists
Hope Bohanec, Executive Director, Compassionate Living
Victoria Moran, author of 13 books on contemporary spirituality and compassion
ate living, and the founder and director of Main Street Vegan Academy.
Sailesh Rao, founder and director of Climate Halers
Author of Vegan Revolution: Saving Our World, Revitalising Judaism; Judaism and Vegetarianism; Judaism and Global Survival; Mathematics and Global Survival; and Who Stole My Religion? Revitalizing Judaism and Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal Our Imperiled Planet; and over 250 articles at JewishVeg.org/schwartz
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