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What’s food got to do with the Festival of Freedom? Well, everything. You may have already downloaded AJWS’s Passover resources, but here are some other great resources about food justice and liberation: Progressive Jewish Alliance created a special Food Desert Seder Plate. Uri L’Tzedek created its own food justice Haggadah supplement. Mazon developed a fifth …
On April 10th, Jewish change-makers in New York City gathered for a seder that explored the intersection of liberation, food consumption and production. Everyone enjoyed local, fairly produced ingredients! Check out these great photos of the seder on the Pursue blog.
Sunday’s New York Times editorial on Haiti’s refugee camps, rightly focuses on one of the most critical issues facing the hundreds of thousands of Haitians still living in Haiti’s decrepit tent settlements: rape. The editorial encourages policymakers to do something about the terrible conditions—a lack of streetlights and not enough police protection—that lead to relentless …
The fast ends with me feeling good, having had a powerful personal experience. Had my first wine, solid food and diet coke in a week last night, ate moderately, and am still thinking about what I have learned about hunger, about focused thinking, about empathy toward others, about what creatures of habit we all are.
