Maggie's Farm

That was a huge billboard, many years ago, as you approached NYC from Yankeeland, via the Bruckner Blvd. Levy's rye bread. Good bread, with the whole flavorful caraway seeds in it. The perfect bread, for us gentiles, for ham and swiss cheese, with plenty of mustard!

That old sign was up there for 15 years or more. As a kid, it seemed exotic: I never had met a Jewish person.

Later, they ran ads like the one on the right, in the newspapers. A sort-of precursor of Benetton.

You do not have to be Jewish to find Nathan's Aliyah Diary interesting. Check it out, if you haven't.

Israel is serious about citizenship: it is not a right - it is a hard-earned privilege. Requiring a Jewish doctor/professor from America to work in the persimmon orchards, and to clean the horse stalls, says it all.

Would your doctor do that?

What would you or I be willing to do to become an American citizen?

It just happens that Maggie's Farm has no Jewish staff (except for our guest author Nathan, who posts willy-nilly from various points in Israel). However, we support Israel - not as a US puppet - but as a democratic, free, civilized, peace-loving state which has become the scapegoat of the Middle East, and their favorite hate-object with which they maintain power.