1. Sabina and Alex Hershaft were liberated by the allies in the spring of 1945.
31 Facts About Alex Hershaft
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Alex Hershaft went on to study polymer chemistry at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
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Alex Hershaft then spent a year running the chemistry department at the Israel Institute for Scientific Translations in Jerusalem.
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In 1967, Alex Hershaft joined the Grumman Aerospace Corporation in Bethpage, New York, to review potential areas of new business in air and water pollution control, and solid waste management.
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Alex Hershaft joined the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton in Bethesda, Maryland, to evaluate water management alternatives, impacts of electric power plants and transmission lines, and costs and benefit of data from the Earth Resources Technology Satellite.
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Alex Hershaft spent a couple more years directing environmental studies for the US Environmental Protection Agency and US Council on Environmental Quality with two erstwhile consulting firms: Enviro Control and Interstate Electronics Corporation.
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Between 1977 and 1981, Alex Hershaft served as a senior scientist with the Mitre Corporation in McLean, Virginia.
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Alex Hershaft studied emissions from various heating fuels and prepared protocols for assessing and cleaning up hazardous waste sites as part of the US Superfund program.
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Alex Hershaft has been listed in Marquis' Who's Who in America, American Men and Women of Science, and other biographical directories.
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Alex Hershaft has been inducted into both the US Vegetarian Hall of Fame and the US Animal Rights Hall of Fame.
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Alex Hershaft had been involved in student extracurricular activities throughout his undergraduate and graduate studies.
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Between 1965 and 1978, Alex Hershaft served on the board of the American Humanist Association, a national organization that affirms the ability and responsibility of human beings to lead ethical and fulfilling lives without reference to a supernatural being.
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In 1961, shortly after arriving in Israel, Alex Hershaft dropped meat from his diet.
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In 1976, Alex Hershaft founded the Vegetarian Information Service to distribute information on the benefits of a vegetarian diet.
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Accordingly, in the summer of 1981, Alex Hershaft organized Action For Life, a national conference at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, that effectively launched the US animal rights movement.
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Immediately following the 1981 conference, Alex Hershaft founded the Farm Animal Rights Movement to promote a vegan lifestyle and animal rights.
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In 1997, Alex Hershaft launched a second round of 20 Animal Rights National Conferences that attracted 1500 participants and rallied and inspired the US animal rights movement each year.
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In 2015, Alex Hershaft began reflecting on the many parallels between the Holocaust and the mass slaughter of animals for food, particularly the size and efficiency of the operations, the respective personnel structures, the surrounding secrecy, the use of cattle cars to transport victims, the cruelties preceding death, and the arbitrary respective social norms that induce ordinary people to perpetrate or enable extraordinary atrocities.
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Alex Hershaft conducted speaking tours of Israel, Germany, Poland, England, and the US.
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In 2020, Alex Hershaft relinquished the day-to-day operation of FARM to executive director Eric Lindstrom but stayed on as an active president.
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Alex Hershaft has written several hundred letters to newspaper editors about the merits of a vegan diet.
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Alex Hershaft has been featured in several news reports and feature articles.
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Alex Hershaft currently serves on the Advisory Council of Jewish Veg.
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Alex Hershaft has written several hundred letters to newspaper editors about the merits of a vegan diet.
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Alex Hershaft has been listed in Marquis' Who's Who in America, American Men and Women of Science, and other biographical directories.
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Alex Hershaft has been inducted into both the US Vegetarian Hall of Fame and the US Animal Rights Hall of Fame.
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Alex Hershaft is an honorary fellow of the International Vegetarian Union.
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Between 1984 and 2000, Alex Hershaft served on the governing council of the International Vegetarian Union.
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Alex Hershaft met Eugenie Krystal while working at the Israel Institute for Scientific Translations, and they were married in Jerusalem in 1962.
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Alex Hershaft became a vegetarian in 1961 and a vegan in 1981.
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Alex Hershaft has been physically active throughout his life, mostly by playing soccer on various school and county teams, running marathons in the 1980s and 1990s and more recently, by engaging in regular folk dancing and swimming.