Professor Aaron Gross, Founder & CEO of Farm Forward (https://farmforward.com/) and a professor at the University of San Diego presents his Valley Beit Midrash (www.valleybeitmidrash.org) lecture "Jewish Animal Ethics from Torah to Today" for the Jewish Community Foundation (www.jcfphoenix.org/)
ABOUT THIS LECTURE: This lively survey of Jewish animal ethics will consider passages from the Tanakh, rabbinic writings, modern Jewish thought, and the remarkable contributions contemporary Jews have made to secular animal ethics from Isaac Bashevis Singer to Jacques Derrida.
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