Parents sit shiva after son becomes vegan
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Molly and Solly Greenbaum from Hendon have announced on facebook that their son, Archie, is dead to them now that he’s come out as a vegan.
Mr Greenbaum told the Daily Jews he couldn’t understand how his son would reject their religion. “Archie was always very into his Judaism as a child. He would eat Chicken every Friday night and pretty much lived on a diet of Herring and Shwarma. Then one day he told us he was a vegan. I couldn’t believe it. This is what we survived the holocaust for?”
Mrs Greenbaum was equally distressed: “You could have married a shikse, I told him, that wouldn’t have been so bad. But this is a rejection of all our Jewish values.”
Archie Greenbaum who is studying to be a Rabbi told us he was sorry for the pain he’d caused his parents. “Kavod Av v’Im (respecting your parents) is central to me, but I couldn’t hide who I was any longer. Every Shachris, Micha and Ma’ariv I pray that my parents will forgive me for my perverted lifestyle.”
The Greenbaum’s will be holding a memorial service for their son at Sammies in Hendon, where they will be serving Schwarma, Steak and Chicken Shiskliks in his memory.