How can I relate to the other’s experience of the world if I have no access to it, precisely because it is so different from mine?

It’s hard to convey this ancient pain of feeling dispensable, reduced to a problem in the world.  I am in awe of Jewish women because it also drives our will to create movements, make discoveries, and write books that change the world.

"The trip was transformational. The gratitude that every Israeli had for this volunteer mission, made me feel like the grinch, whose heart grew three times larger."

I guarantee you will also be moved and transfixed by this exceptional, timely documentary about Amos Dov Silver⏤the ‘Green Messiah’⏤ who, with the creation of Telegrass, performed what may be the most successful, far-reaching act of tikkun olam by a single person.

When I was told that there’s a Jewish grower named Adam in Nelson, British Columbia who went from legacy to legal and became legendary for the quality of his flower and his Menschlikeit character, it sounded like someone I had invented—a Canadian version of Jack Herer—as part of a sales pitch for Cannabis Jew Magazine. 

“Anti-Jewish bias? But there are so many Jews in cannabis.” I never know if someone says this as a complaint or as an observation, but it always makes me uncomfortable because the observation is a potent source of implicit, anti-Jewish bias.

One of the greatest strengths of American Pot Story is how it recovers the queer, disabled, and Jewish voices that played a pivotal role in the grassroots effort to normalize the use of cannabis.

Absorbtion vs. Consumption on Yom Kippur Since it’s almost time for Yom Kippur (see the Canna-Jewish Holiday Guide), I’m sharing the results of my experiments...