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‘Harvesting people and pickles’: An inside look at Jewish farming

September 27, 2012

At Adamah Farm in Connecticut and the Pearlstone Center’s farm in Maryland, activities are more “heimish” than Amish: growing, harvesting and enjoying pickles, vegetables and cheese with other Jews in an environmental, educational and spiritual setting. By Paul Foer/JNS.org FALLS VILLAGE, CONN.—Nadav Slovin cultivates the fields of potatoes and other crops in the rural Litchfield […]

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USA

Latino Jews weigh immigration, Israel

September 27, 2012

Latino Jews weigh in on immigration, Israel leading up to election Roughly 100,000 Latino Jews reside in the U.S., including 40,000 in the swing state of Florida—which could very well decide the election. With that in mind, JNS.org spoke to Latino-Jewish immigrants from Peru, Cuba, Mexico and Argentina who are now eligible to vote in

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USA

JNS news briefs: September 27, 2012

September 27, 2012

Ahmadinejad’s ‘different perspective’ features usual anti-Israel comments at UN (JNS.org) Addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opened his remarks by saying he has been speaking on the world’s problems for seven years and that he wants to “raise such issues from

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International

On what do Obama and Romney agree?

September 27, 2012

By David Brin ENCINITAS, California — It’s been said that a politician gets to be perfectly honest just once in a long career — at its end. Refreshing candor sometimes pours after an old pol has faced the last campaign. No more fund raisers or flattering voters. One chance to tell the truth. All right,

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USA

Maybe mispronounced, but his dumplings are ‘shalom pow’

September 26, 2012

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — When I first landed on these colorful, picturesque shores about a decade or so ago, one of the first dishes I sampled at the local dumpling joint was something the waitress called “shalom pow.” At least, to my non-tonal and 1950s Hebrew School ears, it sure sounded like

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International

U.S. readers have Israel information gap

September 26, 2012

By Amnon Ben-Yehuda SAN DIEGO — Americans have an information gap on Israel. I keep up with events and news from Israel by logging in daily to the Hebrew version of the Israeli papers Ha’aretz and Yediott. Between the two I can read opinions by columnists ranging the political spectrum but with emphasis to the

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Middle East

Palestinian society rejects 2-state solution

September 26, 2012

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Among the more moderate responses to Ehud Barak’s proposal to withdraw some 30,000 Israelis from the West Bank (i.e, leaving aside those whose response was “absolutely crazy”), is the warning that planning must be better than in the case of the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. For the sake of argument,

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

U.S. refuses to acknowledge Islamist war against it

September 25, 2012

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration was wrong when first it said that what happened in Cairo and Benghazi was a spontaneous gush of righteous Muslim indignation. After days of insisting that a snippet of YouTube trash was responsible — not U.S. policy and certainly not the U.S. government — and that

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Ayalon predicts Israel will export energy, change global politics

September 25, 2012

By Maxine Dovere/JNS.org NEW YORK—Danny Ayalon anticipates dramatic changes for Israel, the Middle East and Europe, giving a decade as his time frame. In an exclusive conversation with JNS.org on Sunday morning in New York, Israel’s deputy foreign minister said that, while it is unrealistic to expect any nation dependent on Arab oil to jeopardize

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Middle East

Londoner’s view: U.S. abandoning its allies

September 24, 2012

By Lloyd Levy LONDON–On this Yom Kippur, we are unfortunately reminded of the year 1973. Many of us of course having a vivid recollection of the events in that year, when Israel was ambushed at “ prayer” and only escaped by the skin of its teeth . Yet in many ways it is more reminiscent

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Lloyd Levy, Middle East

U.S. Jews favor 2-state solution for Israel, Palestine — J Street

September 24, 2012

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–A capacity crowd of more than 60 people filled the library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in La Jolla last Wednesday, Sept. 19, for a lively discussion of “The Truth about the Jewish Vote.” The event was the inaugural public program of J Street San Diego. J Street is

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USA

Barak’s withdrawal offer a publicity ploy?

September 24, 2012

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Ehud Barak is featured in the top of the front page headline of Monday’s Israel Hayom, “Barak’s Plan: Withdrawal, maybe one-sided, from Yehuda and Shomron” Inside are the details. It is time to make hard decisions about the West Bank in order to facilitate the creation of a Palestinian State if the

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

From Ethiopia to the Knesset: Shlomo Molla lives the dream

September 24, 2012

By Maxine Dovere/JNS.org NEW YORK—In July 2012, the Israeli government announced its decision to allow the aliyah of the last remnants of the Ethiopian Jewish community. Each month, 250 Falash Mura (Ethiopian Christians of Jewish ancestry) will complete legal immigration until the entire community has been relocated to Israel. A new immigrant absorption center will be developed to

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Middle East

JNS news briefs: September 24, 2012

September 24, 2012

St. Louis passenger to State Dept: Don’t ‘deny Holocaust survivors our legal rights’ (JNS.org) At a U.S. State Department program on Monday marking the 73rd anniversary of the SS St. Louis voyage, honoree Herbert Karliner—one of the voyage’s surviving passengers—handed department officials a letter urging their so-far absent support of legislation that would aid the

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International, Jacob Kamaras

‘Harvesting people and pickles’: An inside look at Jewish farming

Latino Jews weigh immigration, Israel

JNS news briefs: September 27, 2012

On what do Obama and Romney agree?

Maybe mispronounced, but his dumplings are ‘shalom pow’

U.S. readers have Israel information gap

Palestinian society rejects 2-state solution

U.S. refuses to acknowledge Islamist war against it

Ayalon predicts Israel will export energy, change global politics

Londoner’s view: U.S. abandoning its allies

U.S. Jews favor 2-state solution for Israel, Palestine — J Street

Barak’s withdrawal offer a publicity ploy?

From Ethiopia to the Knesset: Shlomo Molla lives the dream

JNS news briefs: September 24, 2012

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