Last week I got into a FaceBook discussion with someone who posted a picture that was disturbing to me, a pregnant cow whose throat was being cut. I never, ever look at these pictures and have several times unfriended and unfollowed those
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Published 4/2/2015 in The FOODshed Coop blog. I admit I am something of a skeptic about the possibility of experiencing sudden (and lasting) transformation. That’s not to say I don’t believe in the possibility that we can be transformed. I experience that
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Lab-grown meat is thankfully less on the radar now that delicious plant-based “meats” like Beyond have come on the market.
As I have begun to explore a vegan pathway, I am once again thinking about the laws of kashrut. How does this practice relate to my life as a vegetarian and my journey toward a vegan lifestyle? The Torah tells us the purpose of
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Water Challah or Berches was a weekly tradition in my home. Spelt water challah is a little newer, no longer every week but whenever I can.
Body Language is a non-verbal conversation with transcendence. Rituals elevate mundane activities and give them meaning.
Creating your own space in time sounds like a meditation technique or a fantasy-adventure — but it’s a set of practices 1000s of years old.
Veggie Cholent, is the veggie version of a traditional stew prepared and put on to cook before the Sabbath begins Friday evening.
Cooperation is a valuable human ability. Without cooperation, the human enterprise cannot fulfill its potential. Here’s a model.
Meals are life feeding on life, presenting the central moral paradox of existence: sustaining life requires taking life.