I just spent a magical Shabbat with 120 Jewish idealists, land-bound millenarians you might call them; spiritual, hopeful, cultural game-changers, seeking questions, answers and each other at the Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center. They came wanting to plant their feet and hands firmly in the soil with their hearts and spirits reaching for the heavens. They were mainly 20 and 30 somethings, along with a handful of their joyful children, who came to learn more about the modern application of ancient Jewish agricultural laws, the growing Jewish farm movement in America, how they can be a part of it and in the process, how they can help tranform this world. They gathered here from around the country, called by Baltimore’s own Jakir Manela, the pied piper of Kayam, an organic, teaching farm at Pearlstone that seeks to give modern… read more
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