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A Major Documentary on Current Environmental Threats and How Jewish Teachings Can Be Applied in Responding to These Threats. Produced by Emmy-Award-winning producer, director, writer, and cinematographer Lionel Friedberg, A SACRED DUTY will take its place alongside Al Gore's AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and Leonardo di Caprio's THE ELEVENTH HOUR as another powerful expose of the dangers of global warming. However, it goes beyond the latter two films, by showing how religious responses can make a major difference and why a shift toward plant-based diets is an essential part of efforts to reduce global climate change and other environmental threats.

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Comments to “A SACRED DUTY: Applying Jewish Values To Help Heal The World”

1. GUIFI, on January 9th, 2009 at 06:45:21 Said:
   People, this video is about ecology, animal welfare, vegetarianism, and HEALING the earth through cooperation among all peoples. Those of you who are posting bizarre crap about Jewish stereotypes, conspiracy theories and such drivel are only showing your own ignorance -- and your laziness, since it is clear you did not even bother to VIEW THE FILM FIRST!
2. Alizah, on January 9th, 2009 at 07:08:20 Said:
   Beancube: What, if anything, does this comment have to do with the film? Did you actually view it, or simply come here to spout canned anti-Jewsih propaganda?
3. Wirt, on January 9th, 2009 at 07:31:19 Said:
   They focus on wars that everybody hates. They worship an infinite god in finite temples as their deceptive dogmatic religious loyalty. They keep determination of their control. They want everything valued rigidly for their possessions yet no such existence even virtually. Their system caused so many lives yet insist on what they own. They enslave other people with numerous invented names of god yet they fell well into it as victim. Everybody's betrayer is these selfish men's modern description.
4. Enid, on January 9th, 2009 at 07:54:18 Said:
   kago, When was the last time you heard of an Israeli suicide bomber? If Palestinians would stop blowing up Jews and calling for the total destruction of Israel, the war would stop. But since Hamas has officially delclared war on Israel, you can't blame the Israelis for fighting back.
5. GIRVEN, on January 9th, 2009 at 08:17:17 Said:
   jews only revere god, respect life amongst themselves, and will kill any other peoples to keep their sacred religion. jews, youre no more holy than muslims or christians, all have elements that will kill to keep their insane ideals of faith, its just that jews only aim against palestinians. if israel stopped the murder of palestinians for just one month, and one suicide bomber blew up in israel, all the world would sympathise with israel, not just USA. but why dont they stop? they know the truth
6. Deortun, on January 9th, 2009 at 08:40:16 Said:
   Elliotemail, the film was originally produced for use in SYNAGOGUES and JEWISH SCHOOLS which are religious institutions, not "most of the population." Jews, by and large, are intellectual "cerebral" well-educated people who don't put much stock in mere soundbites. We expect some depth.
7. Farrah, on January 9th, 2009 at 09:03:15 Said:
   IntellectualConcepts, the word "chosen" has never meant "better than" to Jews, it has meant "having responsibiity." There is nothing in this film that suggests anything about Jewish "superiority." In fact, I do not recall the phrase "chosen people" even occurring in the film. Did you actually VIEW it first????
8. Gaspara, on January 9th, 2009 at 09:26:14 Said:
   Donald4yah, your posts are so totally unconnected to anything in this film that I wonder if you actually viewed it or simply came here to bash Jews and spout sterotypical antisemitic rhetoric. There is no mention of a "secret code" anywhere in the film -- the quotes are from the OLD TESTAMENT which is hardly secret!
9. ARTHGALLO, on January 9th, 2009 at 09:49:13 Said:
   What "secret code"? There was no reference to any auch thing in this film. Makes me wnder if you actually VIEWED it or if you just came here to bash Jews.
10. LINDBERG, on January 9th, 2009 at 10:12:12 Said:
    being ethnocentric has become a jewish value. "gods chosen people??" and so the wars wage on...
11. Nurit, on January 9th, 2009 at 10:35:11 Said:
    The inspirational ancient religious messages in A Sacred Duty transcend the doctrines of all religious and spiritual beliefs. The following quotation by - Albert Einstein - is a toast to this magnificent masterpiece Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
12. LETIZIA, on January 9th, 2009 at 10:58:10 Said:
    Al Gore was given the Nobel Prize for a bunch of lies. Global warming in not only a man made phenomenon but is manly consequence of the great solar cycle. In his movie he presented that previous ice ages happened in the cycle of about every 13 000 years. Who's fault were they? Is it believable that people caused them all? Nonsense! Global warming, pole shift and ice age happen always when solar system passes from dark to the bright side of the galaxy. Ozone holes are not sealed neither!
13. Estcot, on January 9th, 2009 at 11:21:09 Said:
    Jews have a secret code according to this video, and this is a BOLD FACE LIE... If I call myself a feather, does this mean I am also the bird? Anyman anywhere can at anytime, claim he is something, he is not. Politicians do it all the time, so do every one else, who share the two evil motives. Pride of life, and lust of flesh..
14. Atepa, on January 9th, 2009 at 11:44:08 Said:
    We, means we. It means, "by the people, for the people and of the people". I guarantee you this, this man, has an evil motive, which aims to direct you towards his lust, whichever that be.. There is a man, who sat the record straight, because He set the record Himself.. He is the Torah, and yet He is more, than that. You see, the rest of the story, is what everyone everywhere have always hid, because of two evil motives. T he pride of life, and the lust of the flesh.
15. Robinetta, on January 9th, 2009 at 12:07:07 Said:
    I Met Richard Schwatrtz at the Animal Rights 2008 Conference and viewed this video there- it is stunning, and unforgettable -- thank you Dr. Schwartz and your colleagues for helping to open more eyes to these world-wide crises.
16. Kailyn, on January 9th, 2009 at 12:30:06 Said:
    I didn't say "remove the religious content" only to release an edited lighter version that can hold the attention of those that are not as cerebral or religious (a great deal of the population). To be clear, a lighter version would contain much of the original message but in synopses.
17. Johnny, on January 9th, 2009 at 12:53:05 Said:
    elliote, there are plenty of secularized films about the environment (Al Gore got a Nobel Prize for his), and PETA has done some on animal abuses such a "Meet your Meat." What makes this film unique is precisely the religious POV and ESPECIALLY the Jewish focus because cit is RARE to see a Jewish POV on anything in the mainstream media. Remove that and you have just another secular documentary.
18. Ankti, on January 9th, 2009 at 13:16:04 Said:
    Al Gore was given the Noble Prize for his documentary film *An Inconvenient Truth* *A Sacred Duty* is a much more important and urgently needed film and without question is a vastly superior, more powerful,informative, and meaningful presentation. *A Sacred Duty* proves that a *different kind* of monumental and urgently needed change needs to take place throughout the world if there will be any chance of stopping global warming. Real awareness can change the world.
19. Dainan, on January 9th, 2009 at 13:39:03 Said:
    Please try to be respectfully to others comments if you want your comments to stay here. You can say wherever you want without agressions. thanks
20. PASIPHAE, on January 9th, 2009 at 14:02:02 Said:
    It would be a shame if some didn't take this important and well produced film seriously because of it's religious content. May I suggest releasing a second "lighter" (and shorter) version for general consumption.
21. Burne, on January 9th, 2009 at 14:25:01 Said:
    I agree.
22. Spencer, on January 9th, 2009 at 14:48:00 Said:
    nosferatruvampir, lose the attitude. This film was not produced "under the guise of concern" or to "promote religion." It was originally commissioned and produced by SINCERELY CONCERNED members of Jewish Vegetarians of North America to educate people within their own Jewish community. Jews do not have missionaries, we do not seek to convert people to Judaism. But, since the film is of interest to others besides Jews, the org made it available FOR FREE to everyone here.
23. Riley, on January 9th, 2009 at 15:10:59 Said:
    Actually, chanteur73, there were at least 4 Orthodox speakers in the film: The Hasidic guy in the beginning, professor Richard Schwartz (author of Judaism and Vegetarianism), the former Chief Rabbi of Ireland (Rosen?) and the chief rabbi of Haifa. All of them are vegetarians. There are probably more orthodox vegetarians than we realize.
24. CASSIVELLAUNUS, on January 9th, 2009 at 15:33:58 Said:
    I guess you refer to the lack of more Orthodox in the video. How many Jews who follow a glatt kosher diet are sincerely interested in how their mazon is produced? Much of the Orthodoxy regards meat as an essential part of the diet which can't be historically and traditionally separated from its observance.
25. Joran, on January 9th, 2009 at 15:56:57 Said:
    go back to school buddy, you have no clue of what you are doing in life.

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