Sarah Garfinkel lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and works as an educator at a community school in East Harlem.
Sarah Garfinkel
By Sarah Garfinkel
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News A ‘Headache’ Of A Family Farm Gets Rebooted As A Jewish Community, With Pickles
Girl meets boy, at a Brooklyn Starbucks, for a first date. Girl learns that boy is heir to a family farm — one of the first Jewish farms in North America. Girl, whose ancestors had a more typical immigration story, finds this appealingly different. Girl scoots in a little closer. That meet-cute was nine years…
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Community 8 Nights Of Vegetarian Hanukkah Delights
I am no cooking class expert, but the setup of the Manhattan JCC’s Vegetarian Hanukkah Dinner class seemed quite unusual. As I briefly lingered in the doorway, a sea of friendly yet confused faces framed by gray and white hair met my gaze. Four people sat to a table and there was not an ingredient…
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Community Craving A #Woke Book Club? Meet The Booklynites
Throughout my year as a Repair the World Education Justice Fellow, I have had multiple coffee meetings with millennial Jews to discuss community engagement. Early on, I recognized a recurring theme that would come to shape my year of service: People sought a space in which they could have meaningful discussions about racial justice. I…
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Fast Forward Josh Shapiro’s Judaism was not why Kamala Harris snubbed him, new book claims
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