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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News A ‘Headache’ Of A Family Farm Gets Rebooted As A Jewish Community, With Pickles
Girl meets boy, at a Brooklyn Starbucks, for a first date. Girl learns that boy is heir to a family farm — one of the first Jewish farms in North America. Girl, whose ancestors had a more typical immigration story, finds this appealingly different. Girl scoots in a little closer. That meet-cute was nine years…
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Fast Forward Israeli Farm Gives Disabled Animals A Second Chance
MOSHAV OLESH, Israel (Reuters) – Miri, a three-legged donkey, Gary, a sheep with leg braces, and Omer, a blind goat, munch on some hay at Israel’s only animal rescue and educational sanctuary. Founded by animal rights activists Adit Romano, a 52-year-old former business executive, and Meital Ben Ari, 38, who used to work in tech,…
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News Chicago Synagogue’s Urban Farm Thrives, Feeding Thousands
The farm at KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago is very much an urban farm, with a bus line running past the side entrance, and tourists passing by to see Barack Obama’s former home across the street; so, the volunteer farmers do not feel obligated to wake up at the crack…
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Fast Forward ‘Biblical’ Sheep Shipped To Holy Land — But Are They Really From Israel?
Gil and Jenna Lewinsky, a Canadian Jewish farming couple, had a different sort of aliyah in mind when they loaded more than 100 sheep on a cargo plane for Israel, animals they said hail from Biblical times. “You know that Israel is built on Jewish people returning. Now you have a case of an animal…
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