Vegetarianism, Ecology, and Business Ethics Three Essays of Judaic Insights into Contemporary Concerns

This volume contains three essays of interrelated themes: vegetarianism, ecology, and business ethics. Each theme is examined from a halachic, ethical, philosophical, and socio-economic viewpoint, and is closely analyzed within the broad spectrum of Judaic sources. All of this leads to a number of practical conclusions, which seek to illuminate the challenging situations in each field.

Martin Palmer is the CEO of FaithInvest and Senior Advisor to WWF International on Beliefs and Values Rabbi Professor Daniel Sperber is a leading scholar of Jewish law, customs, and ethics. He taught in the Talmud Department of Bar-Ilan University, where he also served as dean of the Faculty of Jewish Studies. In 1992, he was awarded the Israel Prize for Jewish Studies. Prof. Sperber has published more than thirty books and over four hundred articles on the subjects of Talmudic and Jewish socioeconomic history, law and customs, classical philology, Jewish art, and halachic methodology and rabbinic decision-making in confrontation with modernity.

Foreword by Martin Palmer Introductory Note Essay One Vegetarianism: Moral and Halachic Aspects Essay Two Ecology: New Areas of Religious Responsibility Essay Three Business Ethics and Ethical Investment Conclusion About the Author