Art

Artist Joshua Schwartz wants to make you a playlist.

CURRENT

Sarah Seltzer on Sandy and how we fail at providing for our gleaners.

Rock Midrash

Stephen Hazan Arnoff on Bob Dylan's call to help the poor.

commentary

Ruby Namdar on why the old method to feed the poor is much better than what we do now.

List

Elissa Strauss's list of ten things you share when you share food.

04/08/2013 

We are living in a time of intense interest in ethical eating. Organic. Vegetarianism. Anti-GMOs. Local. Fair trade. Free-range. We've all got a food cause these days. But the marriage of food and ethics is hardly something new.

In fact, the concern over the ethics of food creation, consumption and distribution is quite old, arguably as old as ethics themselves. Food connects us all, and because of that we have long been burdened with making sure that this connection is a fair and just one.

In this journal we explore the relationship between food and ethics, and why we should all be sure to leave some wheat in the corners of our fields.

Elissa Strauss
Editor

DID YOU LEAVE ANY WHEAT BEHIND?

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; thou shalt  leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 19