TEMPLE SHALOM LOOKS AT THE JEWISH IMPERITIVE TO BE CONSCIOUS CONSUMERS: ORGANIC? LOCAL? ECO-KASHRUT ?
by Jonathon Fine (Published in the Winnipeg Jewish Review - December 13, 2010)
On November 20th, as a Board Member of Temple Shalom Synagogue, I arranged the screening of the Acadmey Award nominated documentary , "Food Inc" following a Havdallah Service.
The film "Food Inc" reveals surprising -- and often shocking truths -- about what we eat, how it's produced, and where we might makes changes in the future. The film portrays some of the dangers associated with massive factory produced food and tells much about the true source of our conventional food The film also shows how we have become disconnected from the producers of our food.READ MORE...
June 22nd. Dedication ceremony with Temple Shalom's Moe Marr who's donated mezuzahs were relocated from the Sharon Home [north] to the entrance of the new Sharon Home [south]
Blessings were by Rabbi Neal Rose. There is one on the inside entrance door, (one picture of Moe beside it) and the other was attached with the ceremony to the exterior entrance.
KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS From left: Phil Spevack, Irma Penn and Ruth Livingston, president of Temple Shalom synagogue. Winnipeg's Penn is the only Canadian with the Women's Torah Project, which is based in Seattle.
With each stroke of her quill, Winnipegger Irma Penn is inking an ancient text -- and creating something entirely new at the same time. As a Jewish scribe, she's a copyist of the Torah, following a 3,300-year-old tradition of how the Hebrew scriptures are inked on parchment and respecting thousands of ...
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