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Illustrative: Jewish merchants come from around the world to buy from Moroccan etrog growers like Mohammed Douch in Assads, September 8, 2015. (Ben Sales/JTA)
October 13, 2022, 5:39 am
Peace with Israel, Jewish agricultural law have Morocco’s etrog industry blossoming
Though Israeli import laws favor domestically grown citrons, every 7 years growers from the high Atlas Mountains corner the market during the biblical farming sabbatical of shmita
By David I. Klein
From Jamie Geller's 'Farmer’s Kitchen Cookbook: 50 Recipes Celebrating Israel’s Veggies and their Growers' (Courtesy)
June 24, 2022, 12:05 pm
Podcast: Come for the cabbage, stay for the fennel, says cooking maven Jamie Geller
Known as the Jewish Rachael Ray, Geller’s latest cookbook is ‘Farmer’s Kitchen Cookbook: 50 Recipes Celebrating Israel’s Veggies and their Growers’
By ToI Staff
Pastor Chris Harris, who leads two Church of God in Christ congregations in Chicago, and Rabbi Ari Hart of the Orthodox Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Synagogue teamed up for a shmita debt relief fundraiser. (Screenshot from Facebook via JTA)
June 2, 2022, 2:19 am
Inspired by biblical tenet, interfaith group cuts medical debt for 2,000 Chicagoans
Taking a page from sabbatical year loan forgiveness outlined in the Good Book, two churches and an Orthodox congregation team up to buy $1.9M worth of debts – and let them go
By Jackie Hajdenberg and Gabe Friedman
Ilana Toweg, right, and her husband Doron field countless prayer requests because of their prominence as Israel farmers strictly observing shmita, Jewish laws about letting farmland lie fallow every seven years. (Deborah Danan/JTA)
April 23, 2022, 8:38 am
Why an Israeli farmer is celebrated for killing his crops (Hint: It’s in the Bible)
At the urging of his wife Ilana, Doron Toweg let their eggplants die, costing them massive contracts, as they joined a growing movement to observe the biblical precept of shmita
By Deborah Danan
Jewish youngsters plant trees during a Tu Bishvat event organized by the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael in the Ben Shemen forest, February 6, 2012. (Omer Miron/Flash90)
January 17, 2022, 6:23 am
New bill seeks to replace British mandate law on protection, planting of trees
Timed to coincide with the annual tree-planting festival of Tu Bishvat, MK Alon Tal will submit proposal to strengthen trees in the face of 21st-century challenges
By Sue Surkes
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