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Correction: The Obamas are Planting an Organic Veggie Garden on the White House Lawn

Posted in Buying Local, Good News, food, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

By Yannai Kranzler
I’m pretty sure there’s still no planned war against the species of Corn. But it turns out that the Obama family actually is turning the White House Lawn, or at least a chunk of it, into an organic garden, contrary to an article I published before the weekend. Spearheaded by First Lady Michele, [...]

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Eating Holy Food in a Holy Way

Posted in Buying Local, Halakha, Jewish Ecology, Judaism, Rabbi Julian Sinclair, Taking Action, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In continuation of our discussion on local food, the following is a Dvar Torah Rabbi Sinclair wrote for Canfei Nesharim’s Eitz Chaim Hee Torah Commentary Series.
Do we know who grows our food? Does it matter? This question was first raised for me five years ago when I was the Campus Rabbi at England’s Cambridge [...]

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Meet the Meat: Local, Organic and Kosher Converge

Posted in Climate Change, Rabbi Julian Sinclair, Religion and Climate Change, Religious Leaders on Climate Change, ecology, food, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 3, 2009 | 10 Comments »

By Rabbi Julian Sinclair
I spent last Wednesday at Wind Dancer Rancher, an organic farm in Northern California. The day was cold, wet and blustery. Together with 25 others, I had volunteered to take part in the slaughtering, plucking, evisceration, koshering and packing of the Turkeys that were to be eaten for Shabbat dinner at the [...]

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