Will the stock market crash at the end of this Jewish year? A book that I picked off the shelf last month in Hudson’s News at Union Station in Washington DC is rather confident that it will. I was on ...

It’s the end of summer 2014. Rosh Hashanah is approaching, and with it the finale of the seven-year shmita cycle, a time when agricultural land lies fallow in Israel, perennials are harvested, and ...

Quick, what is the first word that comes to mind when you hear the word “shmita”? Most likely it is “agriculture”. Or more specifically an entire industry of grossly overpriced, imported fruits and ...

The seventh year of the agricultural cycle is a sabbatical year in Israel, called Shmita. During the Shmita year the land lies fallow and unfarmed. This means that the farmers owning the land have no ...

With shmita, the sabbatical year for agriculture, just around the corner (beginning on Rosh Hashanah 5782, September 7, 2021), secular, religious, and ultra-religious protagonists have yet another ...

An organization that subsidizes farmers observing shmita, the every-seven-years agricultural sabbatical, says it is doling out more than twice as much as last time around. MOSHAV AZARIA, Israel (JTA) ...

MOSHAV AZARIA, Israel (JTA) — Doron Toweg’s farmyard is as quiet, peaceful and unruffled as his voice. Apart from the occasional bleat from Gila and Simcha — two sheep kept by Toweg and his wife Ilana ...

More than 2,000 years ago, when ancient Israel was an agrarian society, the shmita year was a huge national happening. Commencing with Rosh Hashanah, the people of Israel would gather in the fields to ...

(RNS) — When Jodi Kushins founded Over the Fence Urban Farm, a cooperative agricultural project that takes up her backyard in Columbus, Ohio, she considered it a “relatively secular endeavor.” It wasn ...

As we usher in the secular new year and vow to go to the gym and be a nicer person for nine days, one resolution to consider is recommitting to shmita, which began on Rosh Hashanah. Shmita is a ...

Nothing draws attention to the passage of time like doing the same thing every year, and nothing marks disruption like not being able to do it. So this past September, when for the second straight ...