jewish farmers

Jewish farms are booming. Now the farmers want to grow their community.

The new generation taking to the land is discovering a hunger for something not easily found in most pockets of rural America: other Jews.

By Ben Harris February 26, 2020 5:27 pm

The Jewish Chicken Farmers of New Jersey

Think “New Jersey Jews.” What do you see? Kids swimming at Jewish day camps, suburban synagogues surrounded by parking lots, Yiddish-speaking peasants raising chickens–Oh wait, not that last one? Think back to 1882, when 43 families fled pogroms in Russia and settled in southern New Jersey, to begin a new life as farmers. They left […]

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Baba Joon, Israel’s First Persian-Language Oscar Entry

Before a word is uttered in the new film, Baba Joon, we see the rolling Israeli countryside, and then the inside of a barn – full of trapped turkeys. The imagery is clear – this movie is a poignant debate between individual freedom and the confines of tradition. We see an old truck sputtering through […]

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