Please consider making a donation today. By MJL Staff | August 22, 2002. Considering that the very first mitzvah (commandment) in the Torah is âto be fruitful and multiply,â it should come as no surprise that nurturing a family is considered of utmost importance in the Jewish tradition.oday, having children and instilling Jewish values in them is seen as a counterbalance to the shrinking Jewish populace, and some Jews believe they have a responsibility to create Jewish children in part to make up for the vast number of Jews lost during the Holocaust.
Chief Powhatan was father of Pocahontas and the ruler of the tribes that lived in the area where English colonists founded the Jamestown settlement in 1607.
First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609â1614) Contributed by Brendan Wolfe. The First Anglo-Powhatan War was fought from 1609 until 1614 and pitted the English settlers at Jamestown against an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians led by Powhatan (Wahunsonacock). After the English arrived in Virginia in 1607, they struggled to survive through terrible drought and cold winters.