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 ...

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 ...

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 ...