JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Vegans are so annoying, right? Sorry insecure carnivores, longtime vegan Natalie Portman has the perfect counter for you: “Lots of people make fun of anybody who cares about anything deeply, right?” Portman asked a group of 16,000 high school students in California. “I’m here to say, it is always a great thing to care…to have…
As a young writer living in California, I find progressive spaces are practically unavoidable. I can’t walk down Santa Monica without someone suggesting I try veganism, nor go to my screenwriting group without a colleague suggesting I add a President Trump joke because Hollywood is all about the resistance. As an intersectional feminist, you’d think…
My summer camp had a funny mealtime tradition. When the kitchen staff was planning a special dessert, for which we would need to hang onto a utensil after the dishes were cleared, they would ask one table of campers to announce it to the dining hall. Those campers would, in unison, pound on their table…
WeWork, the company owned by Shabbat-keeping billionaire Adam Neumann, is going vegetarian in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint. WeWork is a company selling access to shared workspaces, that has been honored as a traditional workspace disruptor, that is now effectively banning meat at all company-wide events, refusing to reimburse employees for lunches that…
When it comes to the history of vegetarianism, Jews have been swearing off meat for a very long time. “See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food,” it is written in Genesis 1:29. Many scholars take this…
Who could ever forget that time Drake danced inside a box bathed in colored fluorescent lights for his music video, Hotline Bling. Clad in a red Moncler puffer, he showed off the kind of awkward dance moves that is endemic to a middle aged suburban dad who is trying too hard to be “hip” at…
Call it nouveau vegan: As diners demand more healthful options, plant-based cuisine is having a moment — and Jewish chefs are leading the charge. One of the pioneers is Guy Vaknin, whose 5-year-old Beyond Sushi has exploded from a modest counter in Manhattan’s East Village to a five-restaurant chainlet. Days after Vaknin and his wife/business…
For vegans, is this a golden age of dining? Judging from these 10 fabulous plates, which make magic minus the meat, the answer is “absolutely.” Some of the eateries on our list are kosher; some are modern Israeli, or Israeli-inspired. A couple of them have Jewish chefs. Whatever their orientation, they might coerce even committed…
