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Lobbying for a Just Farm Bill: Our Meeting at Senator Gillibrand’s Office
Last week, I joined other AJWS food justice advocates at Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s district office in Manhattan, where we discussed reforms to the Farm Bill, which is set for reauthorization this...
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Advocating for a Just Farm Bill on Capitol Hill
This post originally appeared on The Jew and the Carrot. “This just makes common sense, and—I think—it makes Jewish sense.” That is how Timi Gerson of the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), closed...
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Happy March, Pursuers! As it’s Women’s History Month, the Jewish Women’s Archive is calling on you to contribute a brief story about an American Jewish woman who has inspired you. Based on their...
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Tomato Rabbis and a Fair Food Victory
I was driving around New Jersey running errands when my phone started buzzing. One text read, simply, “We won!” The second text provided more information: “Trader Joe’s signed!” After several years of...
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Chewing on Food Justice: The Farm Bill & You!
On January 30, 2012, Pursuers gathered to learn and take action on food justice through the Farm Bill. Speakers included Timi Gerson of AJWS, Eric Weltman of Food & Water Watch, and Jonah Adels of...
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Chewing on Food Justice: Rocking the Farm Bill
If you are of a certain age (let’s say born between 1970 and 1985), I suspect there’s a better than average chance that your introduction to the American lawmaking process came courtesy of an animated...
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Reverse Hunger Today!
Today is the last day of January, and AJWS’s Reverse Hunger campaign gets ever closer to reaching its February deadline for procuring 15,000 signatures on the Jewish Petition for a Just Farm...
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Crying Over Spoilt Onions
This post originally appeared on The Jew and the Carrot. It was the pile of onions that made me cry. Not in the way you might think—I wasn’t standing over a cutting board, knife in hand, sobbing my way...
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Jews vs. The Farm Bill
This post originally appeared on The Jew and the Carrot. The issue inspiring the latest Jewish political movement won’t surprise readers of this blog—but it might cause some head scratching among the...
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Chewing on Food Justice: The Farm Bill & You!
Following up on our popular summer series, Chewing on Food Justice, Pursue invites you to continue your learning with us with a focus on the upcoming Farm Bill debates. If you have no idea what the...
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