Scars in the Garden from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. “The Black community was resistant to the Jewish community coming into the neighborhood at first,” explained Chava Karen Knox, an African-American woman who converted to Judaism a couple of years ago. Knox is referring to the Jewish volunteers who work on a weekly basis in…
My synagogue garden will be five years old this spring. That is how long it took to become a truly congregational enterprise, and not just a labor of love for me. Step 1: Get Leadership On Board Initially, I wanted to build the garden in the front of the shul. That was nixed by the…
Golf-ball sized, purple tomatoes hang heavy on the vine, ripe and ready for the picking. “You know tomatoes are ready when they easily pop right off at the stem,” announces Marybeth Lybrand, the Master Gardener at the Peninsula Jewish Community Center’s Gan Tzedek, or Justice Garden. “If you have to really tug to on the…
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