More than 70 rabbis from across the world and from across the religious spectrum, including several from Britain, have signed a declaration urging Jews to switch to a vegan diet.
Masorti Rabbis Jonathan Wittenberg and Jeremy Gordon, the principal of the Leo Baeck College, Rabbi Deborah Kahn-Harris and Rabbi Natan Levy, the Board of Deputies former interfaith officer, who is Orthodox, are among UK supporters of the statement issued by the Jewish Vegetarian Society in Britain and the American JewishVeg.
The rabbis call on their “fellow Jews to transition toward animal-free, plant-based diets.This approach to sustenance is an expression of our shared Jewish values of compassion for animals, protection of the environment, and concern for our physical and spiritual well-being.”
Several also appear in a video which has been launched on the JVS website today.
