Adamah fellow, Jackie Topol, put together a beautiful photo collage of her summer living with other young, Jewish farmers and working in sadeh (field) at The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. More photos and Jackie’s reflections below the jump.
There are those who say that there are no coincidences in life. Seeing this article posted at jewschool may just make me a believer in that statement.
Let me start at the beginning. I have a close friend (in honor of Radiohead’s impending new album, let’s call this person “Yid A”) who is a prime example of the increasingly rare species Classical Reform Rabbi. A brilliant and die-hard rationalist (once engaging in a ten-minute classroom disputation on the merits of Kantian ethics with visiting lecturer Rabbi David Hartman), Y.A. lives according to the highest moral standards as exemplified by the biblical prophets. When it comes to the matter of food, my friend is consistent in her/his beliefs. Y.A. buys mainly organic and strongly supports her/his CSA, but wouldn’t blink twice at downing a (free-range) BLT with a glass of milk. Let me put it more bluntly - no student when we were at HUC gave more freely of their time and money to just causes; but Y.A. also went out of his/her way to find the one non-kosher butcher in Jerusalem to do her/his shopping. Read more »
