The fascinating experiences of an Orthodox Jewish woman researcher, who lived with a Pennsylvania Amish family recently, were related in a newspaper article last Thursday. Ayelett Shani interviewed the researcher, Dr. Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, to find out how she was able to arrange to live with the Amish family, what… Continue reading…
Police last week identified a man whom they accused of shooting a horse that was pulling an Amish family in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, back in November. The story highlights the continuing difficulties that some Amish have in dealing with their neighbors. On Sunday evening about 9:00 p.m., November 24,… Continue reading…
According to a Lancaster County news report last week, a group of nearly three dozen Anabaptists returned from a visit to Israel during the last week of November. The Amish, Mennonite, and Hutterite people from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Idaho, Canada, and Montana traveled to the Holy Land to try and… Continue reading…
According to a Lancaster County news report last week, a group of nearly three dozen Anabaptists returned from a visit to Israel during the last week of November. The Amish, Mennonite, and Hutterite people from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Idaho, Canada, and Montana traveled to the Holy Land to try and… Continue reading…
As the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday approached last week, an Amish family decided to flee to Canada to prevent unwanted medical treatment for their daughter. Andy and Anna Hershberger and their 10 year old daughter Sarah Hershberger have been contending with medical authorities in Ohio’s Akron Children’s Hospital. The Hershbergers state… Continue reading…
The U.S. government shutdown because of Republican unhappiness with Obamacare prompts the question why the law exempts the Amish from the mandatory medical insurance provisions. According to a Reuters news story last week, the Amish don’t have to purchase the insurance because they insure themselves, within their own communities and… Continue reading…
Amish farmers in Ohio are effectively modifying their farming practices to cope with changing global climate conditions. The Amish “are very well read,” said Dale Arnold, who is the director of energy policy for the Ohio Farm Bureau. “They’re adapting and doing things with hybrids and tiling and sub-surface drainage,”… Continue reading…
Last week a guest blogger for the Christian Science Monitor reported that Ohio Amish farmers are being cheated by Marcellus shale fracking companies, which know that they will not sue them for fraud. James Burgess, the Monitor blogger, cited an earlier report in the New Republic that discussed the story… Continue reading…
Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired Magazine, will be the featured speaker this evening at an international conference titled “Amish America: Plain Technology in a Cyber World.” The title of Mr. Kelly’s presentation, scheduled for 7:00 PM Eastern Daylight Saving time, will be “What the Amish Can Teach… Continue reading…
Sam Mullet and his followers were members of a cult—they were not really Amish people, according to Donald Kraybill, a leading scholar of Anabaptist studies at Elizabethtown College. Mullet, plus a number of men and women in his congregation, were convicted last September in federal court of hate crimes for… Continue reading…
