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.
White House. Soon after they married on May 15, 1750, Martha moved into Daniel Parke Custisâs home, called White House, on the Pamunkey River in New Kent County, Virginia. The death of Custisâs father the previous November meant that Daniel Parke Custis had become one of the wealthiest men in Virginia. Like Marthaâs father, Custis exported tobacco. Unlike her father, the size of his holdings was immense.