JUICE CLEANSE

A contemporary fable by Sarah Seltzer Share    Izzy had tried fasting, the Atkins diet, the Paleo diet, veganism, lacto-ovo vegetarianism, gluten-free living, the 5/2 diet, keeping Lent, Ramadan, Hallal and Kosher. But now she told us, with a twinkling tone in her voice, she had a new recipe for a total juice cleanse. Total.

HEDEF

A musical exploration of time slowing down By Amir Shpilman http://yourlisten.com/LABA/hedef When we fast we choose to deny our physical needs in order to focus on our spiritual ones. When we fast we crave oneness, oneness with ourselves and oneness with others. When we fast we hope that allowing ourselves to feel weaker will somehow

TRUE FAST?

When I fast, I feel by Karen Hartman   Share  In my family, even the tiniest delay in eating was an excuse for bad behavior.  Impatience, explosive temper, poor judgment, inability to concentrate, all could be chalked up to hunger.  Even now, if my even-keeled young son gets whiny and ridiculous I will calculate his

Help the Poor

On Dylan’s “John Wesley Harding” and Fortune’s Wheel Stephen Hazan Arnoff Share  John Wesley Harding may have been Bob Dylan’s most highly anticipated album ever. Released in 1967 at the end of twenty months of public silence that included a motorcycle crash, it was also the most stylistically unexpected work of Dylan’s career. The album featured

Lessons Gleaned from Sandy

Why do we waste our time with charity when we could be doing justice?  by Sarah Seltzer Share  During the bitter cold weeks that came in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the stark income divide in New York City was held to the light of media scrutiny as it hadn’t been for years. Certainly, nature

ATTENTION: ARTIST JOSHUA SCHWARTZ WILL BE MAKING PERSONALIZED MIXES FOR WHOEVER WANTS ONE. CUSTOM TAILORED TO FIT YOUR UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL SELF.

TO RECEIVE A ONE OF A KIND MIX PLEASE CONTACT JOSHUA AT: [email protected] INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: NAME FAVORITE MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE (DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THE FAVORITE) LOCATION YOU LIVED IN THE LONGEST A SINGLE IMAGE FOUND BY USING GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH (NO JUDGMENTS HERE – ANY IMAGE YOU WANT) A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE LAST MEAL YOU ATE

Ten Things You Share When You Share Food

A list of what is really at stake at the dinner table by Elissa Strauss             Over dinner the other night my husband told me about a slightly awkward business lunch he had that day. He was out with some higher-ups from a big financial firm at one of Manhattan’s

How to Really Help the Poor

A Commentary on Leviticus 19 by Ruby Namdar Share 9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard;

Friends: An Essay

A writer searches for someone to eat with by Diana Spechler   Our first night in town, we went out for sushi. When we sat at the bar, the chef introduced himself and showed us his knife. His name was Jack. His knife was beautiful, sharp, the blade engraved with Japanese letters. Or maybe they

ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE FOR THE ROAD

On the Interesection of Food and Power in Dylan’s Desire and Genesis 27 By Stephen Hazan Arnoff   Share    Like desire itself, Bob Dylan’s album of the same name carries more than it can handle. Desire traverses climates of stifling heat as well as the cold of “pyramids all embedded in ice.” It pulses with violence