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Faith, Community, and Culture: Faith and Plant-Based Diets

Virtual Event

2025-04-08 18:00:00 2025-04-08 19:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Faith, Community, and Culture: Faith and Plant-Based Diets Join this interfaith discussion on the connections between faith and plant-based diets. Led by a food historian, local religious leaders will share how vegan and vegetarian practices align with their spiritual beliefs, influence their traditions. Virtual Program -

Tuesday, April 08
6:00pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-04-08 18:00:00 2025-04-08 19:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Faith, Community, and Culture: Faith and Plant-Based Diets Join this interfaith discussion on the connections between faith and plant-based diets. Led by a food historian, local religious leaders will share how vegan and vegetarian practices align with their spiritual beliefs, influence their traditions. Virtual Program -

Join this interfaith discussion on the connections between faith and plant-based diets. Led by a food historian, local religious leaders will share how vegan and vegetarian practices align with their spiritual beliefs, influence their traditions.

LA County Library offers a series of virtual roundtable conversations exploring the intersections between community service in libraries and in faith organizations. These interfaith dialogues will bring together religious leaders from a diversity of traditions to discuss the ways in which libraries and faith-based organizations can work side by side to encourage soulful wellbeing in our communities. The purpose of these conversations is to encourage a broader understanding of the types of organizations that provide care and service to our communities, an understanding that promotes opportunities for partnership and connection between libraries and faith organizations. 
 
This panel discussion on Faith and Plant-Based Diets will be moderated by Richard Foss and features faith leaders Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard, Kate Carpenter, and Ven. Hui Ze Shih.
 
Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard is the Director of Clergy Engagement at the Center for Jewish Food Ethics and co-found the Valley Chevra Kadisha. In July 2025 he will become the rabbi at Temple Shalom of the South Bay.
 
Kate Carpenter is the clerk of the Animal Kinship Committee, an ad-hoc committee of Orange Grove Meeting in Pasadena. 
 
Richard Foss Is journalist, author, culinary historian, and lecturer based in Manhattan Beach, California. He is a board member of the Culinary Historians of Southern California.
 
Venerable Hui Ze Shih is a Buddhist monastic from Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights. He is currently in charge of Interfaith as well as Outreach programs in the temple.

Virtual Program


Hours
Mon, Jul 07 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Tue, Jul 08 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Wed, Jul 09 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Thu, Jul 10 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, Jul 11 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Jul 12 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Sun, Jul 13 7:00AM to 6:00PM

About the branch

This is a virtual location. No events are held at this address.

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