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Celebrating Chanukah
With Chanukah, the Jewish festival of lights, just around the corner, we wanted to share some of our favourite festive recipes. We celebrate the miracle of a tiny bit of oil that lit the menorah in the Great Temple in Jerusalem lasting eight days instead of one, and we mark the holiday with family get-togethers, […]
‘With the planet in peril, we religious leaders must speak truth to power’
JVS Patron Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg shares his thoughts from COP 26 in Glasgow. Click here to read his piece in the Guardian.
We are sad to announce the passing of JVS member Sybil Esmore
JVS member, Sybil Esmore, passed away last week, at her home in North London. A classically trained singer who studied voice in London, New York & Munich, with some of the world’s foremost authorities, she performed an eclectic range of musical styles, in eight different languages, throughout Europe and on both sides of the Atlantic, […]
New Meatless Farm cookbook – download for free
Meatless Farm, one of the UK’s fastest growing plant-based meat brands, is launching something a little special this week – a deliciously crafted cookbook titled Make it Meatless, created to invigorate your tastebuds, delight your eyes, help your pocket and support the planet, all at the same time. This is not an ordinary cookbook. Its […]
Tastesmiths launch Berbere curry kit for National Curry Week
Cooking a curry from scratch isn’t always easy, as often the recipe calls for a lengthy list of spices that can be tricky to find. But with a pre-measured Tastesmiths kit, curry lovers can whip up authentic-tasting, restaurant-worthy dishes from home with very little fuss and no waste. And to celebrate National Curry Week (7-12 […]
Win a KLBD goodie box, packed full of KLBD-certified vegan products
Enter our KLBD-JVS free prize draw to win 1 of 2 KLBD Goodie Boxes, packed full of KLBD-certified vegan products. For a chance to win, answer these 2 questions: 1.Which was your favourite JVS event and what event would you like JVS to run in the future? 2.What is your favourite KLBD-certified product and where […]
Climate change: An existential threat to humanity and how we can survive
Climate change goes way beyond “an inconvenient truth.” We are overheating our planet to alarming levels with catastrophic consequences. According to NASA, “Nineteen of the 20 warmest years all have occurred since 2001, with the exception of 1998” and 2020 is on a sizzling pace to be one of the hottest years. Every decade since […]
This vegan food company will give you a YEAR’s supply of burgers if you skip meat for a week
Are you the UK’s biggest ‘grill seeker’? To celebrate National Burger Day (26 August), international plant-based food brand The Fry Family Food Co. is on the hunt for the UK’s biggest ‘Grill Seeker’ to receive the summer BBQ kit of a lifetime. All they have to do is pledge to take on the challenge and […]
Richard Schwartz interviews author Glen Merzer on his new book ‘Food is climate’
Glen Merzer has writtenf “Food is Climate,” a potentially groundbreaking book, which cogently argues that the only way that a climate catastrophe can be averted is through a societal shift to vegan diets. Click here to watch his interview with Richard Schwartz.
The vegan simcha will be the way of the future – Jewish Chronicle
‘Its not just food — our community needs a wholesale rethink to embrace sustainability’, writes Jennifer Lipman in the Jewish Chronicle. Jennifer makes the case for sustainable simchas,read the full story here.