{"id":123406,"date":"2018-08-30T14:20:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T22:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123406"},"modified":"2023-08-19T15:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T23:46:32","slug":"jews-charity-attention-seeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123406","title":{"rendered":"Jews &#038; Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uajap1\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v2ljsv0\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v2ljsv0\",\"div\":\"rumble_v2ljsv0\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/story.californiasunday.com\/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust\">Mark Arax writes in January 2018<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Stewart Resnick is the biggest farmer in the United States, a fact he has tried to keep hidden while he has shaped what we eat, transformed California\u2019s landscape, and ruled entire towns.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the Resnicks have wedded the valley\u2019s hidebound farming culture with L.A.\u2019s celebrity culture. They don\u2019t do agribusiness. Rather, they say, they\u2019re \u201charvesting health and happiness around the world through our iconic consumer brands.\u201d Their crops aren\u2019t crops but heart-healthy snacks and life-extending elixirs. Stewart refers to the occasional trek between Lost Hills and Beverly Hills\u2005\u2014\u2005roughly 140 miles\u2005\u2014\u2005as a \u201ccarpetbagger\u2019s distance.\u201d It seems even longer, he says, if you add in the psychological distance of being an East Coast Jew in a California farm belt where Jews are few and far between. Lynda is making the trip on the company jet more often these days. She\u2019s done giving big gifts to Los Angeles museums and mental health hospitals that name buildings after her and Stewart. The south valley\u2005\u2014\u2005its people and poverty, its obesity and diabetes\u2005\u2014\u2005is her newest mission.<\/p>\n<p>In Lost Hills, they call her \u201cLady Lynda.\u201d She shows up in high fashion and stands in the dust and tells them about another charter school or affordable-housing project she is bringing to them. They have no way to grasp the $50 million to $80 million a year that the Resnicks say they are spending on philanthropy. This is a magnitude of intervention that no other agricultural company in California has ever attempted. The giving goes to college scholarships and tutors. It goes to doctors and nurses, trainers and dietitians, who track the weight of workers, prod them to exercise, and wean them off soda and tortillas. As she announces the newest gift, the men and women in the back of the crowd smile and applaud politely and try not to show their faces to the publicity crew she has brought with her to film the event. Many are here without documents, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Arax writes in January 2018: Stewart Resnick is the biggest farmer in the United States, a fact he has tried to keep hidden while he has shaped what we eat, transformed California\u2019s landscape, and ruled entire towns. 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