Comments on: A-Hunting We Won’t Go http://www.jdate.com/jmag/2012/11/a-hunting-we-wont-go/ Where celebrities, experts and JDaters come to kibitz! Mon, 20 May 2013 03:59:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Richard Schwartz http://www.jdate.com/jmag/2012/11/a-hunting-we-wont-go/comment-page-1/#comment-87381 Richard Schwartz Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:05:31 +0000 http://www.jdate.com/jmag/?guid=cf5d65dac66b77bb66c79ee04ab05a80#comment-87381 As president of Jewish Vegetarians of North America, I am happy to see this article. readers might be interested in my article, "An Overlooked Mitzvah: Tsa'ar Ba'alei Chaim." http://jewishveg.com/schwartz/OverlookedMitzvah.html For Jewish teachings on the proper treatment of animals, please see my 160 articles,, 25 podcasts of my talks and interviews, and the complete text of the 3rd edition of my book, "Judaism and Vegetarianism," at JewishVeg.com/schwartz. As president of Jewish Vegetarians of North America, I am happy to see this article. readers might be interested in my article, “An Overlooked Mitzvah: Tsa’ar Ba’alei Chaim.”

http://jewishveg.com/schwartz/OverlookedMitzvah.html

For Jewish teachings on the proper treatment of animals, please see my 160 articles,, 25 podcasts of my talks and interviews, and the complete text of the 3rd edition of my book, “Judaism and Vegetarianism,” at JewishVeg.com/schwartz.

]]> By: yehadut http://www.jdate.com/jmag/2012/11/a-hunting-we-wont-go/comment-page-1/#comment-87101 yehadut Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:38:55 +0000 http://www.jdate.com/jmag/?guid=cf5d65dac66b77bb66c79ee04ab05a80#comment-87101 Is fur and leather a legitimate human need, when we have so many alternatives that do the job without suffering and death? In any case, current methods of obtaining fur and leather are anything but "least possible pain". They are simply torture. I wish the religious community would put animal welfare issues on their radar. Judaism has much to say but this is completely being ignored. Is fur and leather a legitimate human need, when we have so many alternatives that do the job without suffering and death?

In any case, current methods of obtaining fur and leather are anything but “least possible pain”. They are simply torture.

I wish the religious community would put animal welfare issues on their radar. Judaism has much to say but this is completely being ignored.

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