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is JTA's former associate editor.

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• This Week in Jewish Farming: The moral quandaries of bunnies

  July 11, 2014 10:45am

  Finding a small litter of bunny rabbits prompts a disagreement over how to protect the farm while upholding our respect for life.

• Zalman Schachter-Shalomi brought old world gravitas to New Age Judaism

  July 6, 2014 3:40pm

  Before he died last week at the age of 89, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi was one of the world’s most innovative and influential living Jewish spiritual leaders.

• This Week in Jewish Farming: The deer threat and an electric solution

  June 27, 2014 12:47pm

  Countless warnings from neighbors spurred the purchase of electrified fencing to keep those beautiful — and damaging — deer away from the vegetables.

• This Week in Jewish Farming: Sex, violence and vegetables

  June 20, 2014 10:23am

  After months of work and worry, eight vegetables were taken out of the ground, washed, packed into boxes, loaded onto a truck and delivered to CSA members.

• This Week in Jewish Farming: The pests arrive

  June 13, 2014 10:52am

  With the summer solstice fast approaching, it’s as if some magnetic force is drawing the energy up from the earth, swelling roots, expanding foliage and filling our fields with luscious green.

• This Week in Jewish Farming: Market day

  June 6, 2014 10:05am

  The first farmers market of the season served as something of a coming-out party for Root Down Farm.

• This Week in Jewish Farming: The suburban homestead

  May 30, 2014 10:30am

  Leaving New York for the suburbs felt like a fall from grace, but a farm’s demands on time and attention turned out to be surprisingly liberating.

• This Week in Jewish Farming: Farmer’s hands

  May 23, 2014 9:22am

  Farming takes a toll on the body, but the real measure of a day’s work is in the hands.

• This Week in Jewish Farming: The impostor farmer

  May 9, 2014 11:06am

  Muddy fields too wet to work in, irrigation pumps that won’t move water, and other near-disasters from the front lines of Jewish agriculture.

• This Week in Jewish Farming: Getting in gear

  May 2, 2014 10:24am

  After an unseasonably cold start to the growing season, everything seems to be happening at once.