During the long years of exile, the Land of Israel remained desolate, and the few Jews who did live here did not engage in agriculture. The Jews expelled from Spain who began immigrating to Israel ...

Q: Is the heter mechira ideal, or should the position of rabbis who prefer to buy produce grown by non-Jews be taken into account? It is a positive mitzvah to refrain from cultivating the Land of ...

New York courts have usually been unreceptive to arguments that a heter iska—a legal device Orthodox Jewish rabbis developed to facilitate lending and commerce—should be treated as an enforceable ...