Resource Sheet for Environment Art Contest
These resources from Jewcology users may be appropriate for the Environment Art Contest currently being run by Babaganewz, in partnership with Jewcology.
Animals:
Tzaar Baalei Chaim Activity
How Am I Like the Animals and Plants
Parshat Ki Tietze: The Compassion to Bring Mashiach
Green Spaces:
Pokeiakh-Ivrim (To See With New Eyes)
Grapes, Goats and Sustainability
Meet a Tree
Shema Sound Maps - Hearing Godliness in the World
General Paradigm:
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What does the Torah say about the environment and Tu b'Shevat? Explore our collection of articles, stories, and Torah study materials.
New Torah Study Materials for 5771
Trees, Torah, and Caring for the Earth
by Dr. Akiva Wolff and Rabbi Yonatan Neril
That the New Year of the Tree has come to be associated with sensitivity to and appreciation of the natural environment is not by chance. Many Jewish sources connect trees with our proper stewardship of the earth. Understanding these teachings on Tu ...
Canfei Nesharim's Tu b'Shevat Programs
Planning a Tu b'Shevat Seder?
How to Run a Seder:
Tips and Instructions
Haggadot:
For download or order
Enhance your seder:
with Study Guides, Stories
and Speaker Notes
Audio Podcast:
Trees in Jewish Thought
(WAV file, 4:31)
Video Teaching:
Trees in Jewish Thought (4:37)
Experiencing Trees:
Suggested Activities (PDF, 3 pages)
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Jewcology's Featured Tu b’Shevat Materials
Check out these great materials for Tu b'Shevat!
Canfei Nesharim
How to Organize a Successful Tu b'Shevat Seder
Program Ideas for Tu b'Shevat
Study Packet: Trees, Torah, and Caring for the Earth
Hazon
Hazon's 2011 Tu B'Shvat Resources
Hazon Tu Bishvat Seder Manual
Tu B'shvat Seder Haggadah - Hazon’s 2010 Seder and Sourcebook
My Jewish Learning
New crafts for celebrating the birthday of the trees
Noam Dolgin
Apples ...
Natural gas finds in Israel stirs a public discussion on gas royalties. With this public debate in mind, Teva Ivri's lesson plan for Tu Bi'shvat offers resources for a discussion on natural resources and environmental responsibility
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In Wintry times, nurture life!
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 1/7/2011
Festivals, Life-cycle, & Climate crisis
Interreligious Relations
Tu B'Shvat
The new Congress convened this week. If you are worried over its impact on continuation of mass disemployment, on massive home foreclosures, on making Muslims and Hispanics into pariahs, on the newly enacted health-care system, on the swollen military budget and the possibility of bringing home our young men and women from the endless, self-destructive war in Afghan...
Order of Service & Teach-in, MLK Day, Jan 19, 2008
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 11/26/2008
Earth
Global Scorching
Justice and Gender
Justice and Race
Seasons of American Sacred Time
Spirituality of Justice
War, Peace, & the Jewish Community
World Empire
Peace
LITURGICAL SCENARIO FOR MLK BIRTHDAY OBSERVANCE,
EVE OF INAUGURATION DAY, 2009
(From Rabia Harris, Muslim Peace Fellowship, and Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The ...
Voting Our Values: Nonpartisan Guide to Election Issues
Global Scorching
Justice & immigration
Civil Liberties & Human Rights
Iraq-US War
Environmental Justice
Israeli-Palestinian Collision
Globalization and Economic Justice
War, Peace, & the Jewish Community
VOTING OUR VALUES
Judaism & American Life
“To be is to stand for.”
—Abraham Joshua Heschel
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION:
A JEWISH CALL FOR JUSTICE
Jud...
Blessing of the Sun: Looking Forward: April 8, 2009
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 6/25/2008
Earth
Global Scorching
Blessing of the Sun
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Early in the morning of April 8, 2009, Jewish communities (and whoever wants to join them) will have a teaching opportunity that comes only once every 28 years: the festival of Birkat HaChamah, the Blessing of the Sun.
In ancient rabbinic tradition, it commemorates the moment when God created the sun in the first place. In modern practice, it fits well ...
Burma, Big Oil, Burning earth & Bush
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 10/3/2007
Earth
Global Scorching
Dear Friends,
Petitions to the Myanmar/ Burma military government are sweeping the Internet - and will make no difference whatsoever. But there IS a way to make a difference: letters to the US government.
The US press has focused on how China’s and India’s involvements make pressuring Myanmar’s govt difficult. But how much have you seen about the involvement of Chevron, a US oil company that bought Unocal ...
Blessing the Sun, April 8, 2009
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 7/30/2007
Earth
Global Scorching
Blessing of the Sun
On April 8, 2009, the 28-year cycle of the Jewish ceremony of Blessing the Sun will come ‘round again. Below you will find the essay on the celebration on April 8, 1981, of this extraordinary event — one of the least-known but most joyful of Jewish ceremonies — from my book SEASONS OF OUR JOY (Beacon Press). Let us begin to plan for 2009. — Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Today [April 8, ...
Brief video: Facing the Pharaohs of Global Scorching
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 12/17/2008
Festivals, Life-cycle, & Climate crisis
Global Scorching
Environmental Justice
Globalization and Economic Justice
Interreligious Relations
My life-partner Rabbi Phyllis Berman and I spent a week in Sweden at the Interfaith Summit on the Climate Crisis.
Watch the live 5-minute video of my "words of hope" for the thousand people who filled the Uppsala Cathedral, intertwin...
Hanukkah for Humanity
Festivals, Life-cycle, & Climate crisis
Global Scorching
Seasons of our Joy: Festivals and Lifecycles
Hanukkah
A 7-minute face-to-face talk with Rabbi Arthur Waskow about the Green Menorah and celebrating Hanukkah in a way that will bring light to the earth and the human race.
In this lesson, students will reflect on their personal material consumption and how it affects the environment. They will then study three Jewish values which conflict with consumerism—not destroying, not coveting, and being happy with what you have.
http://babaganewz.com/teachers/consumerism
Hazon’s Tu B’Shvat Seder and Sourcebook
Download the 2011 edition of our comprehensive, pluralistic, beautiful haggadah and source book for FREE. Complete with teachings and explanations, our haggadah is available in PDF format so you may print as few or as many copies as you need. Right-click and choose “save as” if you are having trouble… Read More
By Rabbi Dovid Sears
View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet
Rabbi Sears requests that adaptations of his article are sent to him at .
If you chance upon a bird’s nest along the way in any tree or on the ground, whether it contains young birds or eggs, and the mother is sitting upon the young birds or upon the eggs; you shall not take ...
Strengthening the Lieberman-Warner Bill on Climate Crisis: A Detailed Analysis
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 11/8/2007
Earth
Global Scorching
November 7, 2007
To: Members of the Committee on Environment and Public Works and Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection
We are writing you to express our concerns about Senate Bill 2191, “America’s Climate Security Act of 2007,” introduced by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.). The legisla...
God Said to Noah: An Old/ New Song to Avert a New Flood
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 11/8/2007
Noah
Global Scorching
GOD SAID TO NOAH*
Melody and some words, traditional; remainder by Rabbi Arthur Waskow *
* Copyright (c) 2007 by Rabbi Arthur Waskow. All rights reserved.
God said to Noah, The earth’s getting hotter, hotter,
God said to Noah, The earth’s getting hotter, hotter,
Yet she is My (clap) beloved daughter, daughter -
Children of the Lord.
CHORUS: Rise and shine and give God the glory ...
Hanukkah, Bali, and Climate Crisis: Because the Earth is Holy
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 11/8/2007
Global Scorching
BECAUSE THE EARTH IS HOLY
[This statement has been signed by a variety of religious leaders and activists, including Rabbis Arthur Waskow& Jeff Sultar of The Shalom Center]
From December 3 to 14, 2007 international representatives and heads of state will meet in Bali, Indonesia to address the historic challenge of setting new parameters on human activity in preparation for the expiration of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012. ...
