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Jews for Animal Rights (JAR) is an American animal rights organization, founded in 1985 by Dr. Roberta Kalechofsky, the Jewish writer and feminist, to uphold and spread the Talmudic prohibition against causing suffering to living creatures, known as tza'ar ba'alei hayyim.
JAR promotes the ideas of Rabbi Abraham Kook on vegetarianism, and campaigns to find alternatives to animal testing.
The group is based in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
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Further reading
- Kalechofsky, R. Animal Suffering and the Holocaust: The Problem with Comparisons, 2003. ISBN 0916288498
- Patterson, C. Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, 2002. ISBN 1930051999
- Schwartz, R. The Schwartz Collection on Judaism, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights
- Kalechofksy, R. (ed.) Judaism and Animal Rights: Classical and Contemporary Responses, a collection of 41 articles by rabbis, doctors, veterinarians, and philosophers on animal rights and Judaism, 1992, ISBN 0916288358
- Kalechofksy, R. Vegetarian Judaism: A Guide for Everyone, 1998. ISBN 0916288455
- Cohen, Noah J. "Tsa'ar ba'ale hayim: The prevention of cruelty to animals: its bases, development, and legislation in Hebrew literature", 1976. ISBN