Aligning our food
choices with our
Jewish values
Featured Campaign
Is This Kosher?
As a community, it’s time to reckon with the impacts of our food choices–on farmed animals, on people, and on the planet–and ask: is this way of farming and eating truly kosher?
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What We Do
The Jewish Initiative for Animals provides new ways for the Jewish community to bring its values of compassion for animals into practice and strengthen Jewish communities in the process.
Recent blogs
The Importance of Organizational Food Policies for Jewish Institutions
A brief history of Tu B’Shvat, the New Year for Trees, and what this holiday can teach the Jewish community about our food choices, year-round.
Tu B’Shvat: How an Ancient Jewish Holiday Connects to our Present Day Food Choices
A brief history of Tu B’Shvat, the New Year for Trees, and what this holiday can teach the Jewish community about our food choices, year-round.
JIFA Partners with the Rabbinical Assembly for Sustainable Dining
This program provides a way for institutions to achieve sustainability goals with the practical and educational support from JIFA’s team and the leadership support of the Conservative Movement.
Our values
In order to cultivate and grow a sustainable Jewish animal advocacy movement, we must address the issues that are critically connected to and interdependent with industrial animal agriculture. We must work in partnership with Jewish communities and justice movements to achieve positive change.
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Join us in building Jewish community support for alternatives to factory farming. Become a donor today.