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Food Row by Row: Growing a School Garden Movement
One of the great successes of the new food movement is that planting gardens has become hugely popular in schools and other communal institutions. In the Jewish community, day schools and camps are increasingly jumping on the green bandwagon to install everything from small herb and flower container gardens to large-scale vegetable gardens. When I…
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Food Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh: ‘Good’ Food Hits Plates at Jewish Camp
Some are doing it to answer the first lady’s call to fight childhood obesity. Others are doing it as a way of answering the Jewish call of shmirat haguf, or taking care of one’s body. Either way, Jewish summer camps of all sorts throughout the country are increasingly focusing on healthy eating and helping kids…
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The Schmooze ‘No Chuppah, No Shtuppah’: Students Call College Guide ‘Shallow’
With the new school year just getting under way, the revised edition of “Jewish U: A Contemporary Guide for the Jewish College Student” is drawing flak for its outmoded and inaccurate depiction of Jewish campus life. In the most recent issue of the Jewish student publication New Voices, three separate student reviewers wrote critical takedowns…
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Life Separation Anxiety: Mine, not Theirs
Girlchik got on the camp bus yesterday with a wave and a smile, happy to head off to overnight camp and into the safe first steps toward independence for which, at 11, she is beginning to hunger. Rockerchik, who is 9, was by turns excited and having separation anxiety, bounding off the bus to give…
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Life Sleep-Away Camp: My Daughter, My Self
Last week, we put our 10-year-old daughter, our middle child, on the bus for her first overnight camp experience. Though she didn’t know any other girls at camp, as she boarded the bus she gave me a smile electric with excitement. She is doubtlessly doing fine. I, however, am having some separation anxiety. I recall…
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Life Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Donna Shalala and Pat Robertson Agree
Pro-Palestinian activists in British trade unions have been busy for the past several months promoting anti-Israel boycotts. This week Israel’s allies responded in force: with not one but two full-page ads in The New York Times. The first ad, published Sunday and organized by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, blasted boycott bids from British…
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News Bringing it all back home at Berkeley Bayit
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