A Global Livestream Experience

You’re invited to a global livestream experience introducing the New Year for Animals to Jewish communities around the world.

Healing the World Through Compassion: A New Year for Animals is a gathering of spiritual leaders, animal advocates, and food system innovators exploring how compassion toward animals can help shape a more peaceful and sustainable future for humanity.

Together we will explore Jewish wisdom, modern ethics, lived experience, and technological innovation as pathways toward a more compassionate world.

This event brings together voices from Torah, animal sanctuaries, and food innovation to ask a central question:

How does expanding compassion toward animals transform the way we live with each other?

Details

Sunday, August 9
10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 8 PM Israel Time
Online: Link shared upon registration below

Meet the Speakers

Bruce Friedrich

Founder and President, The Good Food Institute

Bruce Friedrich is the Founder and President of The Good Food Institute, an international nonprofit working to transform the global food system through innovation in plant based and cultivated meat. He is the author of Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food—and Our Future, which explores how food technology can help reshape the way we produce meat and build a more sustainable and compassionate future.

Adit Romano

Co Founder, Freedom Farm, Israel

Adit Romano is the Co Founder of Freedom Farm, an animal sanctuary and educational center in Israel dedicated to rescuing animals and inspiring compassion through personal connection. Through her work, Adit helps people encounter animals as individuals and deepen their understanding of animal sentience, empathy, and our shared responsibility toward other living beings.

Arash Yomtobian

CEO, Mercy For Animals

Arash Yomtobian is President and CEO of Mercy For Animals, a global leader in the movement to end factory farming. A global executive, entrepreneur, and longtime advocate for compassion, Arash brings more than two decades of experience leading high impact organizations and building systems that create meaningful change. An ethical vegan for nine years, his commitment to ending factory farming is rooted in a broader vision of creating systems of care for human and nonhuman animals and the planet.

Rabbi David Rosen

Former Chief Rabbi of Ireland | Member, Jewish Vegan Life Executive Council

Rabbi David Rosen is an internationally recognized Jewish leader and a leading voice in interfaith relations. He served as Chief Rabbi of Ireland and, for 23 years, as the American Jewish Committee’s International Director of Interreligious Affairs. He is currently Special Interfaith Advisor to the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi and serves in leadership roles with Religions for Peace and the International Council of Christians and Jews. A founder of Rabbis for Human Rights, Rabbi Rosen brings decades of experience exploring how faith, compassion, reconciliation, and shared values can help build a more peaceful world.

Moderated by Raquela Karamson, CEO of Jewish Vegan Life

What We Will Explore

• How Jewish tradition understands compassion toward animals and creation
• The spiritual meaning of the New Year for Animals
• What animal sentience teaches us about moral responsibility
• How food innovation is reshaping the future of food and reducing suffering
• How communities can build a more compassionate culture for future generations

Who This Is For

• Jewish community leaders and members
• Educators and rabbis
• Animal advocates
• Food innovators and entrepreneurs
• Anyone interested in ethics, spirituality, and the future of humanity

Why This Matters

The way we relate to animals reflects the kind of world we create for ourselves and future generations.

This gathering is an invitation to explore how compassion can become a guiding principle in both personal life and collective responsibility.

RSVP

Join us live for this global conversation. Register below to receive the access link.