By Marcia Schveibinz

Saturday, March 23, 2019, at 7pm , Congregation Beit Tikvah
Corner Community Center, Roland  Park
5802 Roland Ave, Baltimore, MD 21210

Learn to prepare vegan hamentashen and a variety of fillings. Marcia will also give ideas for vegan Passover dishes. Each attendee will receive a copy of Vegan Passover Recipes by Chef Nancy Berkoff, RD. Free for Beit Tikvah, Vegetarian Resource Group, Baltimore Vegan Drinks, and Jewish Veg members. $5 donation suggested for others.  Please let us know if you are coming at https://www.facebook.com/events/347058466085887/  Or email [email protected]

Marcy Schveibinz became interested in food and nutrition when growing up in Buffalo, NY with her Dad who became a “health nut,” and started eating “whole wheat bagels” which weren’t easy to get in the ’70s! Marcy has a degree in nutrition from Buffalo State College. She is a national board certified health and wellness coach and did her training through the Mayo clinic. She has two vegan children.

Vegetarianism is not eating meat, fish, or fowl. Vegans are vegetarians who also don’t eat dairy, eggs, or other animal products.

In Genesis 1:29, God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed bearing herb, which is upon the surface of the entire earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; it will be yours for food.

We were instructed in the first conversation with a human to eat plants, not animals (that is being vegan). Isaiah revisited these instructions in the most iconic verse of his written prophecy. In imagining the Messianic era, Isaiah wrote: “ ‘The wolf and the lamb shall dwell together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,’ saith the LORD.”
Thousands of years ago, Isaiah realized that the trailhead on the path to peaceful coexistence is found in our stomachs, in our dietary choices.

According to the Jewish Veg society, “The prohibition on killing animals for food remained in place for 1,000 years. Only after the Flood … did God permit meat-eating for the first time, and even then only with severe restrictions and deep reservations. None other than Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, one of the founders of Modern Orthodoxy, described meat-eating as the most reluctantly granted permission in all the Torah:”

For more information on the Jewish vegan cooking demo, call 9am to 5pm Monday through Friday (410) 366-8343.

For more information on Beit Tivah, visit https://beittikvah.org/

For more information on vegan nutrition, see https://www.vrg.org/nutshell/vegan