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Shavuot today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
June 07, 2011

It’s a good thing Israeli cows produce more milk than those elsewhere: We need dairy for Shavuot!

Today in Tablet Magazine, we visit an Orthodox Jew’s dairy farm in southern Florida in a special video. And Daphna Berman retraces her family’s dairy-farming heritage back to the Old Country, which in her case was Bavaria, which creates further complications.

Israeli Cows Outperform Their Counterparts [JPost]
Frum Farm [Tablet Magazine]
Inheritance [Tablet Magazine]

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.