Tag: Plant-Based Eating

Jonathan Bernhard, Plant-Based Eating & Shabbat Scones

Jonathan Bernhard, Plant-Based Eating & Shabbat Scones

The attachment to food and food memories remains strong, even when the ingredients change.

“Food is important in terms of our memories, our identity and our culture,” Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe Bernhard, Executive Director of Jewish Initiative For Animals (JIFA), told the Journal. JIFA’s mission is to help align people’s food choices with their stated Jewish values.

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Dawn Lerman, My Fat Dad & Thumb-Print Cookies

Dawn Lerman, My Fat Dad & Thumb-Print Cookies

Growing up, Dawn Lerman, nutritionist and author of My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, With Recipes, had a variety of food influences within her own family.

“Every memory from my childhood is attached to food,” Lerman says. “Whether they were good or bad, that is what I remember.”

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