Juliet Stein, at The Blogs

Apr 11, 2020, 12:32 AM

Passover During a Pandemic: What’s Plaguing Me.

As we settled into our respective Seder meals, eyeing up the plates of others through Zoom screens arranged in the more group-friendly “gallery view,” my father posed the question, “How do you think the world will be different after...

Oct 8, 2019, 9:52 AM

This Yom Kippur, Consider Going Vegan

“During Rosh Hashanah, the whole city is celebrating with God. But during Yom Kippur, it is only you and Him.” I was sitting in my bed, in a shared room in a hostel in Jerusalem, when an Orthodox woman...

Aug 29, 2019, 1:41 AM

Veganism Is A Core Jewish Value. Here’s Why.

Author Juliet Stein, kneeling before sheep and lambs on their way to slaughter.

As an Ashkanazi Jew, I grew up with an inherent nostalgia for an Eastern European diet. It was not that long ago that our grandparents and great grandparents wrestled with starvation, migration, the Holocaust. And heavy, hearty fare sometimes...

About Me

Juliet Stein is an archaeobotanist, a board member of the Jewish National Fund Futures Philadelphia Chapter, volunteers at Rancho Relaxo, and works at a local foundation dedicated to Jewish education and Israel advocacy.