This year, Americans and Israelis will be consuming 390 million pounds of this beloved Jewish ingredient
Turns out there's a very good reason why the word 'honey' appears 55 times in the Hebrew Bible
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Opinion VIDEO: Making the Holiday Sweet — With Bees
Sweet Tradition from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. As we are getting ready to dip our apple slices into honey for a sweet new year, beekeeper Liane Newton ensures that the precious queens and worker bees make it safely through the winter. Newton runs nycbeekeeping.org a nonprofit that provides resources and a support system for…
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Food This Beekeeper Means Business
Photograph by Liza Schoenfein Ishai Zeldner was a 20-something college graduate doing an ulpan on Kibbutz Beit HaShita in northern Israel when he was assigned to work with Yusuf Gidron, the kibbutz beekeeper. “I had no clue about bees,” Zeldner said. “One night I was working with Yosef, moving the bees, and I got stung…
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Food Of Bees and Men: Fixing the Bee Problem
During the first summer in my current home in Denver, there were plenty of bees in the garden. Every time I walked outside to see how things were growing, I could see the bees buzzing around the plants, happily pollinating my zucchinis and herbs. I had an abundant harvest that year; in fact, I probably…
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