The History and Politics of Modern Food:
Vegetarianism and the Jewish Tradition Hot Food---Global Warming On Your Tongue

Roberta Kalechofsky has been giving talks on radio, in videos,  and doing readings from her fiction since 1976.  She has appeared at Temples, at universities, and twice at The Holocaust Scholars' Conference, the Society for Ethics and Animals at The Philosophical Institute, the Association of Jewish Studies, The Explorer's Club at Salem State College. While living in Israel, she read at Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv University,   

Her subjects are very varied.  For example, she was the keynote speaker at Anshe Sholom in Chicago on "The Future of Kosher Meat," and a few years before that was the invited speaker of The Ortese Foundation in Florence, Italy where she spoke at the University of Florence on "The Book: Its Enemies and Lovers," and was invited on a reading tour in Italy.  She has been on panel discussions on subjects such as religion and the treatment of animals, and literary creativity and publishing, with Robert Boyers, Gordon Lish, Hugh Nissenson,Cynthia Ozick and Elizabeth Sifton.

Given the food and environmental emergency of the present time, she speaks most often now on the problems with modern food, with modern kashrut, and the medical limitations of experimentation on animals, but is always happy to read from her fiction.

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