AJWS has been saying for a while that shipping surplus U.S. food thousands of miles to developing countries is about as useless in ending global hunger as, well, sending them our old T-shirts. According to this article in Foreign Policy Magazine, here’s a great acronym for the leftovers people send to the poor under the …
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Originally posted on Jewcy.com What’s not to love about Shabbat? It happens every week, there’s not a super-sad story attached and it often involves food. Some say you just need candles, wine and bread and you’ve got Shabbat. Heschel’s book The Sabbath, is the only Jewish book I continually reference. It’s the way that Heschel describes Shabbat, the …
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Rabbi Noah Farkas, an alum of AJWS’s Rabbinical Students’ Delegations, and a big fan of Pursue: Action for a Just World, wrote this fabulous article in JWeekly, reminding us to pay attention to our food, its source, and the politics bound up in its production. “We cannot just look at our food,” Farkas writes, “we …
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The ongoing famine and food crisis in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia has fallen out of the headlines. But it continues to have devastating effects on communities. The international community is still responding to the crisis, but resources are limited. Most relief efforts are focusing on the regions of Somalia where the famine has resulted in …
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Originally posted on Pursue: Action for a Just World This Food Day, we have a chance to ask the big question about hunger: why does it still exist? Does it occur: Because there is not enough food for everyone? Because of climate change? Because of insufficient infrastructure? The simple answer is that none of these is …
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