Chanukah -Sources about the light and his meaning.
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Michal Bergman from Teva Ivri - "limud" to Chanukah
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Einat Kramer from Teva Ivri - "limud" to Chanukah
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Spread the word about Jewcology! Order our great new magnets to let your community know about this new resource. Just $10.00, sold in packs of 50. Free shipping!
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Find recipes for green cleaning products at Canfei Nesharim.org.
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Pesach, the holiday of our liberation. Too often, our efforts to clean and prepare for Pesach cause unnecessary environmental damage, and there is much that can be done to prevent the waste. This year, Canfei Nesharim offers some suggestions for a cleaner, healthier, kosher Pesach.
Elevating the Holy Sparks in Wealth: The Exodus, Pesach, and Our Lives
Many everyday cleaners contain harsh chemicals that are destructive to the environment, and toxic ...
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By: Ora Sheinson
Pesach. The holiday of our freedom! Too often it becomes the holiday of our environmental degradation, beginning with toxic cleaning supplies and ending with bags full of plastic and aluminum trash. Below are some basic tips covering a few of the many ways to reduce the personal stress and environmental impact often associated with Passover, while celebrating a happy and kosher holiday.
Personal Stress Reduction:
I would like to echo the statement of many, many Rabbanim and state that Passover cleaning is much less intensive than spring ...
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Everyone is busy cleaning for Pesach this time of year and the trash cans are overflowing! But, there may be many unwanted things you find in your home while clearing out that chametz that can be disposed of in other, more environmentally friendly ways.
Canfei Nesharim suggests that you organize a “Clean Sweep” program in your Jewish community to help people reduce waste during pre-holiday cleaning. Many items that would normally end up in a landfill during the pre-Pesach cleaning frenzy can actually be reused or recycled. There are many companies ...
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Children's Activity: Make Your Own Green Cleaners
(for Children Ages 6-10)
Pesach is right around the corner and there’s loads of cleaning to do! Have the children in your class help their parents get ready for Passover by creating their own green cleaning supplies. Hopefully their little ones’ efforts at making these eco-friendly cleaners will encourage the adults to clean green this year!
Instructions for Teachers/Program Leaders
In advance:
Teachers/program leaders send out a notice to parents ...
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By: Yonatan Neril
The Exodus from Egypt contains some profound insights into Divine-aware living. In this dvar Torah I will present a Jewish perspective on material consumption rooted in lessons from the Exodus. It is based primarily on the teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov's main student, Rabbi Natan, in his book Likutei Halachot.[1]
Rabbi Natan said that Egypt was the heart of materialism-and was pervaded by a lust for money so intense it became idol worship.[2] This powerful material desire led to the enslavement of the Israelites to ...
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Tips to reduce waste this Purim!
REDUCE:
- Avoid individually wrapped candies. No one needs 50 Reeses peanut butter cups and 65 Kit Kats a month before Pesach.
- Make smaller Mishloach Manot with a couple more expensive (or homemade) goodies. It costs the same or less as a lot of junk, and is often appreciated more.
REUSE:
- Use cheap Tupperware to hold Mishloach Manot. It looks nice, is reusable, and will keep your baked goods fresh without using plastic bags. Check Odd Lot or your local 99 cent store.
- Use paper decorated by your children, comics, ...
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Materials:
Film: Renewal
TV & DVD or other technology to view film
paper
pencils or pens
Procedure:
1) Watch the Chapter "Food For Faith" from the movie Renewal, www.renewalproject.net. (See preview below)
Direct Students to jot down each of the ideas they hear that they think is also a Jewish value.
2) Divide into groups of 3 - 5 students
3) Distribute the Jewish food ethics text sheets, 1 per person.
4) Ask each group to read and discuss 3 or 4 quotes from an assigned section of the worksheet
5) Ask ...
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New Materials are coming out all the time, please let me know if you identify anything missing from this list.
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Benstein, Jeremy, The Way Into Judaism and the Environment, Jewish Lights Publishing, 2008
Bernstein, Ellen, Editor. Ecology and the Jewish Spirit. Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1998.
Bernstein, Ellen and Fink, Dan. Let the Earth Teach You Torah. Pennsylvania: Shomrei Adamah, 1992.
Bernstein, ...
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This is an example of a mission statement, every school must develop their own to suit their specific needs.
Hang the mission throughout your school, distribute it to teachers and students with introductory information. Have students and faculty commit to it, sign it, etc. Remember, make it as specific to your school and your setting as possible.
Some schools find a one or two line slogan works better than a full mission statement.
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Goal:To learn Jewish values of responsibility and necessity of action
Duration:15 minutes
Audience: All Ages
Procedure:
1) Tell the Nachson Story:
When it came time to cross the Red Sea, Moses and the Jews approached the edge and nothing happened, no miracle. Moses put his staff in the water and still nothing happened. The people started the panic, the Egyptians were coming and there was no miracle in sight.
One man of incredible faith, Nachson, decide to just walk into the water. He walked announcing that God would bring a miracle, but ...
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Goal: To familiarize students with Jewish laws concerning animal well being.
Duration: 20-30 minutes
Materials: Worksheets; Pens, pencils, markers or crayons
Audience: Grades 1-4
Procedure:
1) Divide students into groups of three
2) Pass out worksheets (below) with an individual Jewish law (chosen from list below) related to animals. Be sure to attach or copy a law from the list onto each group’s worksheet before the activity begins.
3) Explain the question to students if necessary
4) Share/discuss drawings and answers
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Goal: To explore our personal connections and dependency on people, places and natural resources
Duration: 15 minutes
Materials: My Personal Web of Life Worksheet (1 per student), pencils or pens
Audience: All Ages
Procedure:
1) Have students complete the personal web of life worksheet below.
2) Discussion: Everything is interconnected, through friends, family, air and water we are all connected.
Materials developed by Noam Dolgin, www.noamdolgin.com.
All content is subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Shar...
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Goals: To introduce the Shema blessing; To explore sound as an expression of Godliness; To use our sense of hearing to interact with the natural world
Duration: 15minutes
Materials: Blank paper
Pencils or pens
Audience: All Ages
Procedure:
1) Begin by asking one student to recite the words of the Sh’ma opening line.
2) What sense do they associate with this prayer?
Answer: Sound or Hearing
3) Why do they think hearing is the sense we focus on for the most important prayer in ...
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