Writing
Essays and divrei torah connecting Jewish text and thought to questions of animal ethics and plant-based life. Placeholder entries below — swap in your own pieces.
Ethics
Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim, Plainly
The rabbinic prohibition on animal suffering isn’t a footnote to Jewish law — it’s load-bearing.
Torah
Eden as Origin, Not Exception
Why the Torah’s first dietary vision may be less a curiosity and more a compass.
Holidays
A Vegan Seder Plate, Text by Text
Walking through each item on the ke’arah and what it opens up when reimagined without animal products.
Holidays
Sukkot and the Ethics of Enough
What a week spent in a temporary hut teaches about consumption, harvest, and restraint.
Community
Building a Jewish Vegan Community in Montreal
Notes from several years of potlucks, learning sessions, and figuring it out together.
Ethics
What “Dominion” Actually Asks of Us
Revisiting Genesis 1:28 against centuries of rabbinic commentary that read it far more narrowly than we assume.
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