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 ...
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 ...
The shmita, or sabbatical year, is a Jewish agricultural law during which the land is to be left fallow and debts are to be forgiven. (JTA) — More than half of bankruptcies in the United States are ...
Cycles of time are central to Jewish life. Just as Shabbat ends the week, so too, the holidays punctuate the year. Less known in the Jewish cycle of time is Shmita, the “year of release” which is more ...
TROY, N.Y. — A local Shmita study group based in Congregation Berith Sholom, Troy, collected $3,164 in donations and recently invested them in the Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region to honor ...
More than half of bankruptcies in the United States are connected to medical debt. For some families in the Chicago area, however, that debt is being erased in accordance with the Jewish law of shmita ...
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