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Greening Your Shabbat Table

Hosting a Shabbat meal is a wonderful way to spend quality time with family and friends without the distractions of the everyday (email, ringing cell phones, distracting Blackberry messages…) It also offers an amazing template over which to create new rituals and traditions that add new meaning and sustainable flair to the experience. The Jew & The Carrot offers the following resources to help you Green Your Shabbat Table and discover, “What makes this Shabbat meal different from other Shabbat meals?” Greening Your Shabbat Table Set a kavannah (intention) to “go local.” Whether you decide to make all ...

Hazon’s Tu Bishvat Seder Haggadah

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Hazon Tu Bishvat Seder Manual

The manual provides instructions, guidelines and tips on running your own seder.

Tu B’shvat Seder Haggadah:Hazon’s 2010 Seder and Sourcebook

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Pushing ourselves to be the best we can be

Pushing ourselves to be the best we can be Nigel Savage Published in The New Jersey Jewish News' segment, The Next Big Think March 16, 2006 I love the famous line from Robert F. Kennedy: “There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that never were and ask why not?” It’s in that spirit that I want to address this topic. This is more about what might be than about what is. Here are three things that already exist within Jewish life — but which I’d like to see grow dramatically in the next five years. Creating inclusive community What common thread ...

Shabbat Hazon 2006

Shabbat Hazon 2006 Friday July 28th 2006 / 3 Av 5766 Dear All, This Shabbat is Shabbat Hazon, which you would think would be the sort of time I ought to write something to our list. But then one recalls that Shabbat Hazon is not about "hazon" - vision - in a positive and inspirational sense (which is largely why Hazon is called Hazon) but rather about a prophecy of destruction and despoliation, especially in Israel. And then I think: well, perhaps I should indeed write something... So in the remainder of this email I want to write about what's been happening in Israel these last few weeks, and about how ...

An End and a Beginning: Tu B’Shevat in The Age of Awareness

Friday, February 3, 2007 / 14 Shevat 5767 Dear All, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just issued a report which is front page news in nearly every paper in the world today. The Guardian’s summary is typical: The report predicts a rise of between 18 cm and 58 cm in sea levels by the end of this century, a figure that could increase by as much as 20cm if the recent melting of polar ice sheets continues. "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea ...

Prayer Marathons Of Rosh Hashanah And Yom Kippur

Prayer Marathons Of Rosh Hashanah And Yom Kippur New strategies for an ancient tradition No-one would run a marathon without training. But this coming weekend several hundred thousand New Yorkers – and several million of our coreligionists worldwide – will fill synagogues and temples for the annual prayer marathon that is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. For those who need a little last minute training, therefore: read on… At the emotional high point of one of the central prayers of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur we say "teshuva, tefilla and tzedakah avert the evil decree." Teshuva - returning to ...

Jews in the Woods

Nigel Savage, Director of Hazon In the summer of 1998, I led a group of Jewish teenagers on a two week hiking trip in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This is the story of how awful it was - the miserable weather, the arguments, the religious problems, the midpoint mutiny - and why, nevertheless, I think we should all get out in the woods a lot more often... This is the group: nine Jewish teenagers: seven girls and only two boys. Religiously most are observant, but not all: of those who are there is some difference between the strictly halachic and the conservadox. At the other end of the spectrum is a girl who attends a Conservative ...

Ba-Midbar: Treasures in the Wilderness

Leviticus 26:3-27:34 A few years ago I went hiking with friends and with a Bedouin guide in the area around and behind Santa Katerina, in southern Sinai. Sinai is an extraordinary place, raw and grand. The peaks are majestic and whistling cold. The wadis are full of hidden crevices, shade and light, little crawly things, small shrubs and unlikely greennesses. On a hot day, moving slowly, we rounded a corner and came upon a pool, translucent blue, still in the windless day, ice-cold despite the heat. As we read parashat Be-Midbar, and begin the book of Be-Midbar, that hike and that natural pool provide insights into two important questions: ...

Treasures In The Garden Reframing Jewish tradition in an era of ecological challenge

Treasures In The Garden by Nigel Savage Reframing Jewish tradition in an era of ecological challenge Jewish tradition is so old we easily take it for granted. But it's quite an incredible thing: to have been one of the world's indigenous peoples, more than three thousand years ago, to have maintained since then a continuous historical identity and existence, and still to be here, in the postmodern age. We have gathered, in that time, what I think of as "treasures in the garden" - traditions and teachings of immense beauty and value, which we easily fail to notice, or take for granted, or perhaps never knew of in the ...

The Jewish Climate Change Campaign Pledge

The Jewish Climate Change Campaign: This campaign will appear on the world’s stage alongside plans from many of the world’s religions at the request of The Alliance of Religions and Conservation, ARC. ARC is an umbrella non-profit organization based in the UK that seeks to inspire and mobilize the world’s religious communities to create a better world. It was founded on the belief that knowing what to do about the environment is not enough, a profound shift in values and vision to motivate us to act on our knowledge is essential. The values and vision of the world’s faiths can shift human behavior through inspiration and ...

The Jew and the Carrot Blog

Jcarrot is a blog about Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues http://blogs.forward.com/the-jew-and-the-carrot/

Hazon Food Values, Policies, and Best Practices

"va’achalta va’savata u’veirachtaa" / you shall eat, and be satisfied and make a blessing Hazon works to create a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community and a healthier and more sustainable world for all. We’re heirs to 3,000 years of tradition about keeping kosher which is to say, we’ve asked whether a particular food was fit for us to eat. And we understand that our food choices make a difference not only to ourselves but to the people who produce our food and the land and the animals that provide it. In our society, all too often the readily available and familiar sources for our food ...

Dozens of Delicious Healthy, Sustainable, and Kosher Food Recipes

Breads Yid Dish: Homemade challah for the working woman Yid. Dish: Bread Machine Egg Bread Yid.Dish: Apple Cider Challah Yid.Dish: Apple Honey Challah Yid.Dish: Banana Bread Yid.Dish: Banana Bundt Cake Yid.Dish: Beer Bread (AKA Emergency-Use-Up-My-Beer-Before-Passover Bread) Yid.Dish: Beer Bread from the Edge of Irony Yid.Dish: Chocolate Chocolate Chip Zucchini Loaf Yid.Dish: Cranberry Bread Yid.Dish: Herbed Pizza Dough Yid.Dish: Homemade Challah YID.DISH: Homemade Pizza Yid.Dish: Kezach Bread Yid.Dish: Litvak Bagels Yid.Dish: Sourdough Focaccia ...

Food For Thought

Food For Thought: Hazon’s Sourcebook on Jews, Food & Contemporary Life creates the opportunity to extend Hazon’s innovative work on contemporary food issues and Jewish traditions around food to a broader audience. Food for Thought is a 130-page sourcebook that draws on a range of texts from within and beyond Jewish traditions to explore a range of topics relating to Jews and food.

Jewish Food and Agriculture Text Study

Min Ha'aretz: Hazon’s Min Ha’Aretz student curriculum allows students from grades 5-9 to explore the question, What is the relationship between Jewish texts, traditions, and practices and the food we eat? More specifically, how does Judaism relate to all the processes and choices involved in how we grow, harvest, prepare, and eat our food, as well as manage our waste? At the beginning of Min Ha’Aretz, students encounter the driving question of this curriculum: what is the relationship between Jewish tradition and food? Over the course of eighteen lessons, divided into five units, the students explore this question ...

Hazon CSA Program

Hazon Community Supported Agriculture: Hazon’s CSA program is the first ongoing effort in the American Jewish community to support local, sustainable agriculture. Click here to learn more about it. Hazon CSA and Hazon's "Vision" There are two main reasons that Hazon founded Hazon CSA: First, we care deeply about supporting sustainable agriculture and local farmers. In 2009, more than $950,000 went to our Hazon CSA partner farmers - and we believe that alone makes Hazon CSA a worthwhile endeavor. In addition to providing people with the opportunity to purchase and eat local, organic produce, Hazon CSAs ...

Hazon Food Guide

2010 Hazon Food Guide Hazon has been steadily working to compile our best practices around food for Jewish institutions. The Hazon Food Guide will help you navigate food choices in your synagogue or JCC, and offer practical suggestions for bringing our ancient tradition of keeping kosher--literally, eating food that is "fit"-- to bear on the range of food choices we're making today. Table of Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Fit to eat: kosher, and beyond Chapter 2: Kosher Sustainable Meat Chapter 3: Producer Guide Chapter 4: Eating together: planning for meals, Kiddush and holidays...

Sermon for Shabbat Pinchas: A Present Tragedy

Sermon for Shabbat Pinchas: A Present Tragedy Excerpts: This sermon was originally delivered in July, 2010 by Rabbi Alexandra Wright, Senior Rabbi at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St. John's Wood, London, England. One of the peculiarities of being Jewish is that we live across two time zones. We live in the world of the secular calendar from January to December in the year 2010, but we also live within the Jewish calendar in the year 5770 and currently in the month of Tammuz. T ...Last Tuesday was the Fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz, a day to which Jewish tradition ascribes a number of catastrophes, most ...