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We want to put shmita on the agenda for jewish community.
Gabe Crane: Tu B'Shvat: An Ancient Jewish Holy Day For Modern Environmentalists Gabe Crane 2011
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We want to put shmita on the agenda for jewish community.
Gabe Crane: Tu B'Shvat: An Ancient Jewish Holy Day For Modern Environmentalists Gabe Crane 2011
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We want to put shmita on the agenda for jewish community.
Gabe Crane: Tu B'Shvat: An Ancient Jewish Holy Day For Modern Environmentalists Gabe Crane 2011
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We want to put shmita on the agenda for jewish community.
Gabe Crane: Tu B'Shvat: An Ancient Jewish Holy Day For Modern Environmentalists Gabe Crane 2011
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We want to put shmita on the agenda for jewish community.
Gabe Crane: Tu B'Shvat: An Ancient Jewish Holy Day For Modern Environmentalists Gabe Crane 2011
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We want to put shmita on the agenda for jewish community.
Gabe Crane: Tu B'Shvat: An Ancient Jewish Holy Day For Modern Environmentalists Gabe Crane 2011
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The Mishnah also sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and sabbatical (shmita) and jubilee (yovel) years.
Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009
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That would represent another stage in the undermining of religious-Zionist rabbis of the Rabbinate, following struggles over marriage, kashrut and shmita in the past several months.
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We saw it with the issues of marriage, kashrut and shmita, and conversion is the core of the matter.
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“If local rabbis refuse to recognize fruits and vegetables grown by Jewish farmers during the shmita year as kosher, then we will,” said Rabbi Rafi Freuerstein, chairman of the Tzohar organization.
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"This year, 5768 by the Jewish calendar, is a shmita, or sabbatical year. Jewish-owned land is to be left fallow, whatever grows there is to be free and at year’s end, all personal debts are to be forgiven."
- The New York Times, October 8, 2007
October 8, 2007