Remi Welbel
By Remi Welbel
-
Food I couldn’t go back to school. So I started a farm to connect with my Jewish values.
This article first appeared on Alma. After being sent home from school, a life of relative COVID-ignorant bliss, I arrived in the ravaging chaos of the pandemic. My mother — the head of infection control and epidemiology for the largest public hospital in Chicago — was working all hours of the day. Whether it was…
-
Food I’m a young Jewish farmer. Here’s one way to save the Earth
Appropriately appearing just before the harvest festival of Sukkot, this column marks the beginning of a series on farming and food from Remi and Gavi Welbel, who run Zumwalt Acres, a sustainable Jewish farm in Illinois. Growing up, my sister and I often joked that our father thought asparagus could save the world. Driving along…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Zelenskyy joins Canadian Parliament’s ovation to 98-year-old veteran who fought with Nazis
- 2
News Canada was ashamed to have saluted a Ukrainian who fought for Hitler. But that salute didn’t come from nowhere
- 3
Forverts in English Hilarious video about the bris of a convert on Rosh Hashanah
- 4
Film & TV Lee Grant is 97-and-a-half and just as fierce as ever
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Poor and working-class Jews are underrepresented in pop culture, new analysis argues
-
Theater Once, this play about an underground abortion network was history; now, it’s timelier than ever
-
Fast Forward Israeli minister holds Sukkot prayer service in Saudi Arabia amid warming ties
-
Forwarding the News She’s on track to be Mexico’s first Jewish president. Why is she wearing a crucifix?
Engage
-
Catch Up on Yiddish Events
-
It's trivia time!
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
