http://jcarrot.org/nine-faiths-one-vegan-lunch-at-windsor-castle Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://jcarrot.org/nine-faiths-one-vegan-lunch-at-windsor-castle/comment-page-1#comment-20261 Julie Steinberg Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:05:54 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/?p=9665#comment-20261 Hannah, I am so glad you posted your comment because I was also taken aback by the decision not to partake. I think your Rabbi has the right idea. Hannah, I am so glad you posted your comment because I was also taken aback by the decision not to partake. I think your Rabbi has the right idea.

]]> http://jcarrot.org/nine-faiths-one-vegan-lunch-at-windsor-castle/comment-page-1#comment-20258 Hannah Lee Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:23:18 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/?p=9665#comment-20258 In reading the full article, I learned that Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair, who founded the Jewish Climate Change Campaign in Israel, would not be eating the vegan dinner at this conference. Nor would he agree to having kosher food brought in, because he'd "be eating food that was triple-wrapped in plastic with disposable cutlery at an environmental conference,” opting instead for fruit, salad and granola bars. I asked my rabbi this morning after Shabbat services today about this and he said that he would not value environmentalism over Judaism, and he would also not wish to insult the hosts (who were trying to make everyone comfortable), so he would, if he were invited to this lofty gathering, choose to have kosher food brought in. In reading the full article, I learned that Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair, who founded the Jewish Climate Change Campaign in Israel, would not be eating the vegan dinner at this conference. Nor would he agree to having kosher food brought in, because he’d “be eating food that was triple-wrapped in plastic with disposable cutlery at an environmental conference,” opting instead for fruit, salad and granola bars. I asked my rabbi this morning after Shabbat services today about this and he said that he would not value environmentalism over Judaism, and he would also not wish to insult the hosts (who were trying to make everyone comfortable), so he would, if he were invited to this lofty gathering, choose to have kosher food brought in.

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