Following up on CK’s post about whether kashrut is better for the environment, and just in time to wish you all a shana tova, I would like to share with you the competition our friends over at...
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Since I posted a few days ago about the Olympics + China + Darfur connection, I thought I’d give an update of what’s going on in the intersections of those subjects. Recent developments...
NBC, we want more! Tell the world about Darfur!
If you missed the demonstration this morning outside of NBC studios in drizzly NYC, here’s what went down: A diverse group of about a hundred people, organized by the American Jewish World...
Water Shortages in the Middle East – and a Bit of Hope
Guest writer Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz Cross-posted at The Jew & The Carrot Today’s New York Times article, The Food Chain: Mideast Facing Choice Between Crops and Water, was a good reminder to...
Postville Then and Now
Although the Agriprocessors/Rubashkins scandal seems to have faded from the news fairly quickly–which seems odd to me, since food and the fitness of food is such an obsession of...
Live From Radio City Music Hall: Israel’s 60th!
Part 1 Outside in the ballagan there were protests and anti protests and anti anti protests. It was all very confusing. Israeli flags and Palestinian flags faced off on opposite side of the street...