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agriculture
The value of touch
David Suissa
September 24, 2015
The very root of the holiday is in agriculture, humanity’s most fundamental, tactile, life-giving activity.
My city isn’t a tawdry reality TV show
Jewish Journal
August 4, 2015
Every few years, Salinas grabs national media headlines for the wrong reasons: Police killings of criminal suspects caught on camera.
Technology offers solutions to tomorrow’s agriculture problems
Jewish Journal
May 7, 2015
Ten billion people. That is the number of mouths that farmers will have to feed in another two decades. In order to do this food production needs to increase by 70%.
Israel resuming some Gaza produce imports halted in 2007
Jewish Journal
March 5, 2015
Israel will start buying some fruit and vegetables from the Gaza Strip next week, a partial resumption of imports halted when the Islamist group Hamas took over the Palestinian territory in 2007, Israeli officials said on Thursday.
This week in Jewish Farming: First frost
Jewish Journal
November 3, 2014
Sometime in the early morning hours of Oct. 19, the temperature on the farm dipped down to 30 degrees: first frost.
Shmita points to the Torah’s Author
Jewish Journal
October 31, 2014
From the medieval Kuzari to Lawrence Kelemen’s Permission to Receive to Aish HaTorah’s “Discovery Seminar,” Orthodox Jews have promoted many arguments to support the idea of the Divine origin of the Torah.
Urban beekeeper on a quest to protect nature’s pollinators
Jared Sichel
September 17, 2014
Rosa Goudsmit does not take “no” — or even “we’ll see” — for an answer.
This week in Jewish farming: The moral quandaries of bunnies
Jewish Journal
July 11, 2014
We were out weeding squash last week when Fred came over to say he had to show me something but he feared it would lead to an act of violence.
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