Nonprofit Chronicles

Journalism about foundations, nonprofits and their impact

Yet another prominent animal rights activist is being accused of treating women badly. This time, the spotlight is trained on Alex Hershaft, an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor, the founder of a pioneering farm-animal protection group and the organizer of the animal rights movement’s oldest and most important conference. Andrea Jacobson and Cara Frye, who formerly worked …

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Enemies: A Love Story, a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, tells the story of a Holocaust survivor named Herman Broder in postwar New York. At one point, Singer, who was a vegetarian for many years, wrote: As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the …

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