Conservative rabbis are being asked to adopt healthy eating, exercise and lifestyle habits.
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, the executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, is asking her colleagues to join the U.S. president’s fitness challenge as part of a new initiative called the Shalem Campaign, which will launch Jan. 1. The initiative was announced last week.
It is the first time that a rabbinic group has issued a fitness challenge, the Rabbinical Assembly said.
“With so many people facing significant stress, healthy lifestyle habits often fall by the wayside,” Schonfeld said in a news release. “Now, more than ever, we need our leaders to provide a model for investing in our own health as a contribution to our families and communities as well as to ourselves.” — jta