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I Has A CSA

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Generally speaking, when one is searching for some sort of sustainability-related activity or service in the Bay Area, the problem is never finding said activity or service, but choosing which of fifty, say, purveyors of hand-raised organic cricket-fed cruelty-free cockscombs is the one for you.
So it is with choosing a Bay Area CSA, that being [...]

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Be Kosher Now: Eco-Kashrut

Saturday, May 29, 2010

When I first started looking into converting to Judaism — well, I was fifteen. I lived on Skor Bars and Dr. Pepper. (This is not a joke; you can ask my dentist.) I did not look into it very long; the rabbi I consulted suggested I wait a few years. I always assumed, however, that [...]

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Knitting on Shabbos

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

I knit a kippah.

Jews (some) wear kippot (skullcaps) at varying times (if they wear them at all). Some wear them all the time. Some wear them only to pray, or only at Passover, or only in synagogue. I don’t usually wear one at all — I feel self-conscious because most women don’t. I am going [...]

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Everything ends — even Passover

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Passover is almost over.
For the first time since 2001 or thereabouts, I did not host a Passover Seder. (I attended two seders, both of which were lovely.) I did not cook an unforgivably unpalatable kosher-for-passover dessert, nor did I set a glass of water beside Elijah’s cup for Miriam, nor did [...]

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Who can find a virtuous robot? For she has a short skirt and a long jacket.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Every few weeks, we gather round our kitchen table on a Friday evening, light candles, do a little davening, eat a little challah, and usher in the Sabbath. It doesn’t happen every week, but, when we do it, we are always happier for it. Our Shabbat ritual has settled into a routine, now. We don’t [...]

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Challah Wars 1: Bay Bread Poppyseed

Friday, September 18, 2009

Did you know there were Challah Wars going on? Do you even know what challah is? Say no, that I may educate you.
Wikipedia will, of course, tell you what challah is and list challah references in popular culture and so forth, but the most satisfyingly exhaustive source on Jewish food, in my opinion, is Claudia [...]

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