{"id":17597,"date":"2016-03-04T00:15:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T08:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=17597"},"modified":"2016-03-03T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T04:01:14","slug":"sheep-closer-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2016\/03\/04\/sheep-closer-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheep closer to home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Jenna and Gil Lewinsky with Israeli Ambassador to Canada Rafael Barak, who is holding one of the Lewinskys\u2019 Jacob sheep. <em>(photo from Friends of the Jacob Sheep)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Israeli Ambassador to Canada Rafael Barak was recently hosted by Friends of the Jacob Sheep, a Jewish organization in Abbotsford whose mandate is to conserve the endangered four-horned heirloom Jacob sheep and to send them to a future heritage park for their conservation in the Golan Heights. Barak visited the sheep barn on Feb. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Barak came to give an endorsement of the Jacob sheep project \u2013 led by Gil and Jenna Lewinsky \u2013 and offered to continue to help facilitate the sheep\u2019s return to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first thing I did when I heard of this [project] from Jenna, was I opened the Bible to see if this is a true story \u2026 and, behold, the story was there. It is real,\u201d said the ambassador. \u201cOur hope is found in our national anthem, a strong hope of 2,000 years. And then we heard about the Jacob sheep. We have been helping Jenna [and Gil] with connecting with the agricultural ministry \u2026 it is right for the Israeli culture to give the green light for this and to help it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli embassy in Ottawa further commented: \u201cWe follow the project and do our best to help more than a year after the Lewinskys contacted us. Now there has been great progress in bringing the sheep and it is evident that the ministry of agriculture is trying to help the issue. We hope that all the bureaucratic procedures required to bring the sheep will be completed soon and will be brought to the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna and Gil Lewinsky with Israeli Ambassador to Canada Rafael Barak, who is holding one of the Lewinskys\u2019 Jacob sheep. (photo from Friends of the Jacob Sheep) Israeli Ambassador to Canada Rafael Barak was recently hosted by Friends of the Jacob Sheep, a Jewish organization in Abbotsford whose mandate is to conserve the endangered four-horned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4330,4499,4973,3699],"class_list":["post-17597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-israel","tag-jacob-sheep","tag-lewinsky","tag-rafael-barak"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}