Britain Shouldn’t Drop Its Alliance with Saudi Arabia
But it also shouldn’t stop pushing behind the scenes for reforms.
January 3, 2019
The Jewish Farming Community of Beersheba, Kansas
It didn’t go as planned, but it did help new immigrants.
In response to the rising tide of Jewish immigration to the U.S. from Eastern and Central Europe in the 1880s, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise—the pioneer of American Reform Judaism—founded the Hebrew Union Agricultural Society to help these new arrivals settle in the Midwest, where the federal government was giving away land to anyone who cultivated it. Wise’s scheme was one of several contemporaneous projects to encourage Jews to take up farming, whether in the land of Israel, the Americas, or elsewhere. As the society’s flagship program, he created the colony of Beersheba, Kansas. Naomi Sandweiss writes:
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When the Evidence Fails, the “New York Times” Libels Israel by Insinuation
Even ten journalists can’t find a nonexistent war crime.
A New Film Tells the Story of the Heroic Poet-Turned-Guerrilla Avraham Sutzkever
Black Honey.
A Christian Contemplates the Meaning of Jewish Chosenness for Non-Jews
Particularism, universalism, and the circumcision of Jesus.
The Jewish Farming Community of Beersheba, Kansas
It didn’t go as planned, but it did help new immigrants.