With the Jewish High Holy days fast approaching, check out Ruth Messinger’s JTA Op-Ed “Holidays Remind of What We Still Need To Do in Haiti,” which calls upon our individual and collective responsibilities to the Haitian people. Reflecting upon the ubiquitous liturgical refrain asking “Who shall live and who shall die?” that we recite in …
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Originally posted on the Pursue blog. It was 6:20 p.m. on Tuesday night and already a line had formed outside the Local: Mission Eatery, the four month old restaurant founded by Yaron Milgrom-Elcott. Dinner wasn’t served on this chilly summer evening. Instead guests were sampling a chilled avocado soup, bread, olive oil, almonds, and tangy deviled …
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The headline of Sunday’s front page New York Times article reads, “India Asks, Should Food Be a Right for the Poor?” Of course it should. The article recounts the sobering fate of India’s countless citizens who, after enduring extreme starvation and malnutrition, have fallen through the country’s social safety net. An excerpt from the article: …
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Today is the six-month anniversary of the Haiti earthquake and, even though the world’s attention is fading, there’s been a lot of newsandblogcoverage about the work that lies ahead. Most of the focus has been on Port-au-Prince and, while the earthquake took its major toll on an urban center, we can’t forget about the devastating …
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Originally posted on Pursue: Action for a Just World. On January 25th of this year, I was in a conference room at AJWS full of excited people brainstorming about starting a Jewish, social-justice-focused Community Supported Agriculture group, or CSA. We were committed to turning the plan into reality, but not quite sure how we were …
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