Jewish Group Hopes to Expand 'Eco-Kosher' to Other Faiths

[Ian David]

Many Christians say grace at mealtime, but that shouldn’t be the extent of the relationship between their faith and their food.

So says Debra Kolodny, executive director of ALEPH, a Jewish Renewal group that recently launched an interfaith Sacred Foods Project with a $200,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Twenty-five years ago, Kolodny said, the founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement, Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi, coined the term “eco-kashrut” or echo-kosher. It describes the practice of evaluating food and production from a spiritual perspective for its healthfulness, its environmental impact, and its treatment of animals and workers.

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“As people of faith we have a moral obligation to be good stewards of the earth,” Kolodny said in a . “We must make sure that the way we grow and distribute food honors the land, the water, the air, our bodies and our souls.”

She said the Sacred Foods Project is an outgrowth of the growing interest in sustainable agriculture—methods of food production that are able to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs—and the increasing importance of faith in the marketplace.

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[Vexatious Ape]

1. Do we need to add more religious superstition, and hocus pocus

into our culture and market place? I think not.

[Ian David]

2. Well, there is that point. n/t