Dvora Meyers
By Dvora Meyers
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Food In the Rockies, a Jewish Food Movement Emerges
Cross-posted from JTA. The new Jewish food movement arose in Boulder, Colo. organically, so to speak. No large federation or organization swooped in to make sustainable farming and eating within a Jewish framework a priority. Yet in this city of 100,000 — some 13,000 residents are Jewish — “green” has long been a way of…
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Life On Agunah Issue, Pressure Rabbis, Not Rep
Over the last couple of months there has been a lot of attention paid to the unfortunate case of Tamar Epstein, an Orthodox woman who has been trying to get a Jewish divorce decree, or a get for more than four years from her husband Aharon Friedman. Though he’s already her ex-husband in all matters…
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Life Why ‘Can’t’ Is no Longer a Four-Letter Word
A few weeks before Rosh Hashanah, my older sister invited me to join her family and our mother in New Jersey for the holiday. “Is it a three day Yom Tov?” I asked, referring to when a holiday is followed immediately by Shabbat. “I don’t think I can handle that,” I said. My sister, though…
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News Balancing Act
A few hours past sundown on a recent Saturday evening, Rivka Nahari, 31, took to the stage. Her slight frame draped in all black, and her wig swept back with a clip, she sang an aria from “Romeo and Juliet” while accompanying herself on the piano. The audience, which consisted of 50 Orthodox women and…
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Israel News Larry David Returns
Larry David has purchased scalped tickets for temple seats during the High Holy Days (and was subsequently kicked out of services). He’s invited a convicted sex offender to a Passover Seder. He’s pitted a Holocaust survivor against a castoff from the TV series “Survivor.” Are there any other rituals to ridicule? Any more Jewish cultural…
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