On Exploring Being a Jewish Farmer
By Ida Aronson I don’t feel very connected to my Jewish heritage. I was raised Jewish as a child, whatever that really meant. I wasn't raised religiously or in Jewish community. In my mid-20s, I worked at a JCC theater summer camp. It was a job, but I was also trying to see what connections to Jewish life felt like, and it was cool not having the weirdest name in the room for once. It was nice seeing a range of Jewish identity, but I was still very much on the outskirts. When I heard about...