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In many places, farmed salmon is a slow-motion environmental train wreck. This summer, think wild.
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As we usher in the secular new year and vow to go to the gym and be a nicer person for nine days, one resolution to consider is recommitting to shmita, which began on Rosh Hashanah. Shmita is a Biblically ordained sabbatical that occurs every seven years. During that time, the Torah tells farmers to…
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Food How One Jewish Woman Is Changing The World — With One Jar Of Trash
Amanda Lindner has a jar of trash. It’s not a big jar and it’s not a big amount of trash. In fact, in this five-inch jar is all the trash she’s created in the past five months. When Lindner moved into her first solo apartment in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, she committed to a zero-waste…
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Food A Country Made of Plastic: Israel’s Addiction to Disposable Tableware
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The Schmooze She Turned A Greyhound Bus Into A Chic Jewish Home
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Life Judaism Discovered ‘Wellness’ Long Before It Was Trendy
“Wellness” is one of the biggest, often eye-roll-inducing, buzzwords of today. A trillion dollar industry associated with anything from turmeric laced golden milk, to sound baths, to Lululemon activewear — it encompasses such a broad, trend-driven array of beliefs and practices that even those profiting from it struggle to define it. Miriam Webster defines wellness…
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Haart to Haart
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Dec 7, 2022
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A conversation with Julia Haart and her son Shlomo, stars of Netflix's 'My Unorthodox Life,' about the new season and much more.