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Crops growing at Givat Hen in Israel in 2013. (Photo/Wikimedia via PikiWiki CC BY 2.5)
Posted inTorah

This Torah portion’s vision of economic reorganization sounds a lot like socialism

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg May 23, 2024May 23, 2024

The Torah column is supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek in memory of Kenneth Gordon. Behar Leviticus 25:1-26:2 Parashat Behar brings us one of the most transformational visions of human […]

Activists hold signs calling on President Joe Biden to cancel student debt and not resume student loan payments outside the White House, Dec. 15, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Paul Morigi-Getty Images for We, The 45 Million)
Posted inTorah

Wipe out everyone’s debt? Is the Torah serious about that?

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen August 26, 2022August 25, 2022
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. (Photo/JTA-Deborah Danan)
Posted inNews

Why these Israeli farmers became heroes after killing their crops (hint: it’s in the Bible)

by Deborah Danan and JTA April 21, 2022
Screenshot from the film "Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power."
Posted inCulture

Berkeley Jewish filmmaker wins NAACP award; day school students win Hazon arts awards

by J. Staff March 8, 2022
Activists hold signs calling on President Joe Biden to cancel student debt and not resume student loan payments outside the White House, Dec. 15, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Paul Morigi-Getty Images for We, The 45 Million)
Posted inReligion

We’re in a shmita year. So why aren’t American Jews talking more about student debt relief?

by Rabbi Emily Cohen and JTA December 20, 2021
An oil derrick near farm fields in Oklahoma. (Photo/JTA-Sarah Nichols-Flickr Commons)
Posted inOpinion

Shmita is Judaism’s sabbatical year. It can be a model for tackling climate change and inequality.

Sen. Meghan KallmanLex Rofeberg by Sen. Meghan Kallman, Rabbi Lex Rofeberg and JTA September 20, 2021
a classroom with desks spaced evenly throughout
Posted inUncategorized

Let’s keep educating our kids, but give school a rest during this ‘shmita year’

Vicki Haberkorn Abeles by Vicki Haberkorn Abeles October 21, 2020October 22, 2020

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