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Juliet Stein

May 17, 2024, 11:24 PM

Dear Senator Fetterman, As a Jewish constituent from Pennsylvania, I am deeply encouraged by your recent interest in Israel’s challenges and your upcoming inaugural trip to the Jewish state. While you are in our homeland, I encourage you to examine...

Dec 7, 2023, 11:20 AM

Cultivated meat: A linchpin in Israel’s future deserving Florida’s support

Recent events in Israel and legislative developments in the United States have cast a spotlight on the burgeoning cultivated meat industry, a sector critical not only for Israel’s food security but also for its strategic partnership with the U.S. In...

Jul 17, 2023, 10:50 PM

Why the Jewish Community Needs to Fight the Farm Bill’s Passage

A provision called the 'EATS Act' being snuck into the Farm Bill would wipe out state Kosher labeling laws. (iStock)

In a shocking display of either ignorance, insensitivity, or purposeful antisemitism, Representative Ashley Hinson of Iowa has introduced a piece of legislation known as the “EATS Act,” which harms the Jewish community. Her bill, which she’s threatening to add...

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 the Vice President of WD Biotech, an alternative protein investment firm, and has been an archaeobotanist & guest lecturer at University of Pennsylvania, a board member of the Jewish National Fund Futures Philadelphia Chapter, and started a local foundation dedicated to Jewish education and Israel advocacy.