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News In Jerusalem, a market blooms to help Gaza-area farmers hit hard by the war
"It's not just about buying fruits and vegetables," one customer said. It's "to support not only farmers but each other"
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News Urban Israelis are flocking to the Gaza border to tend farms that are suddenly without workers
Hamas' Oct. 7 attack has put the area's agricultural economy at risk as foreign workers have evacuated and farms have been damaged
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Yiddish World I grew up Jewish on a chicken farm. This book gets it right.
The surprising story of Holocaust survivors in rural New Jersey
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Yiddish World Speaking Yiddish to chickens: Holocaust survivors on South Jersey chicken farms
These new farmers, adapting to an isolating rural way of life, found comfort in Yiddish culture, a link to lost families and hometowns
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News 7 ways you can make 2022 a shmita year
As we usher in the secular new year and vow to go to the gym and be a nicer person for nine days, one resolution to consider is recommitting to shmita, which began on Rosh Hashanah. Shmita is a Biblically ordained sabbatical that occurs every seven years. During that time, the Torah tells farmers to…
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Food I’m a young Jewish farmer. Here’s one way to save the Earth
Appropriately appearing just before the harvest festival of Sukkot, this column marks the beginning of a series on farming and food from Remi and Gavi Welbel, who run Zumwalt Acres, a sustainable Jewish farm in Illinois. Growing up, my sister and I often joked that our father thought asparagus could save the world. Driving along…
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News She’s single, she’s Jewish and she’s running her own farm in rural Georgia
Ever dream of just getting away from it all? Shana Frankel, has done just that by starting a farm in rural Georgia, where she lives all by herself. “Yes. I am out there all alone,” said the 28-year-old. “I do have visitors and family who come, but on a day-to-day basis it is just me…
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