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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
