Rachel Biale – Jewcy https://jewcy.com Jewcy is what matters now Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:49:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.5 https://jewcy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-12.43.12-PM-32x32.png Rachel Biale – Jewcy https://jewcy.com 32 32 Heard of Holy Water? It’s Time for Kosher Water. https://jewcy.com/religion-and-beliefs/proposal_kosher_water?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=proposal_kosher_water https://jewcy.com/religion-and-beliefs/proposal_kosher_water#comments Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:54:55 +0000 http://beta.jewcy.com/?p=19724 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome recently banned bottled water from all city offices and functions (Yishar Koa’ch!). A recent documentary film and book, Thirst, by Deborah Kaufman (founder of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival) and Alan Snitow asks whether water is a public resource or a commodity to be bought and sold for profit.…

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]]> San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome recently banned bottled water from all city offices and functions (Yishar Koa’ch!). A recent documentary film and book, Thirst, by Deborah Kaufman (founder of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival) and Alan Snitow asks whether water is a public resource or a commodity to be bought and sold for profit. From political debates over pollution, to controversies over public control vs. privatization, to the very personal dilemmas of whether you should carry bottled water, there is truly “water, water, everywhere.”

How should the Jewish community respond to these global and local water crises?

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