Rabbi Noah Zvi Farkas
By Rabbi Noah Zvi Farkas
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Food Turning the Tables: Why I Like the Big Gulp Ban
A lot of ink has been spilled about Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on large sodas in New York City. The central question is whether citizens should sacrifice freedoms such as the ability to choose an oil tanker-sized soda in order to ensure more healthy society. This battle of values pits freedom against health: Is there…
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Food Turning the Tables: The Disturbing Torah
This is the first of a series of a monthly column by Rabbi Noah Farkas called Turning the Tables. This column is not about food. It’s about living with meaning and purpose, and there’s no better meeting point of the personal and communal, the mindful and the prophetic, the historical and the contemporary than in…
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