International

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

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

JNS news briefs: 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

Ayalon predicts Israel will export energy, change global politics

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