The Lives of Animals in Wartime
Penny Johnson's book argues that thinking about the suffering of animals under occupation can actually reveal a great deal about humanity.
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March 28: Jeffrey Masson and the Emotional Lives of Animals
Jeffrey Masson, a psychoanalyst and writer who first made his reputation by suggesting that Sigmund Freud had turned away from the reality of sexual abuse in the life experiences of his female patients (The Assault on Truth, 1984), was born to mystical Jews, devotees of a theosophist guru, on this date in 1941. Masson went […]
Read MoreSholem Aleichem: Pity for Living Creatures
Thoughts of a Silly Boy by Sholem Aleichem Translated by Yankl Stillman Originally published in the January-February 2009 issue of Jewish Currents ‘IF YOU WANT to be a good little boy, you can help us grate horseradish, until we get done preparing the fish for the holiday.” That’s what my mother said to me, […]
Read MoreJuly 11: The Jewish Bullfighter
Sidney Franklin (Frumkin), the first American Jew to become a renowned bullfighter, was born in Brooklyn on this date in 1903. By 1922 he was in Mexico, working as a matador. He would soon become a celebrity amid the grotesquerie of the bullring, appearing in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, and Panama. “Franklin,” wrote Ernest Hemingway […]
Read MoreElephants and the Jewish Question
by Lawrence Bush Please share this image with friends, and print it out and send it to the Chinese Embassy.
Read MoreWhy I Became Vegetarian at Age 86
It’s Never Too Late to Change the World by Sherrey Reim Glickman I want people to know who I was! Born in 1924 into a Jewish immigrant household in Brooklyn, I was raised on chicken soup, meatloaf, pot roast, gefilte fish, hamburgers, hot dogs, and steak. I loved them all, never questioning what the source […]
Read MoreJuly 6: Peter Singer
Philosopher and animal rights proponent Peter Singer was born on this date in 1946 in Melbourne, Australia. His parents were Viennese Jews who fled the Nazis in 1938; his three grandparents were killed during the Holocaust. Singer spent most of his academic career in Melbourne until joining the faculty of Princeton University in 1999. In […]
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