"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.
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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: ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Sermon for Shabbat Pinchas: A Present Tragedy
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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 ...
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A Prayer Resource for the Gulf Region Affected by the Oil Disaster
Learn more at http://rac.org/advocacy/issues/issueenv/issuecc/action/.
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Summary: In this holiday guide, you will find programs, projects, rituals and study topics that will connect Chanukah with the work of tikkun olam for families, social action committees, youth groups and other synagogue groups. As we increase the lights of Chanukah, adding a candle each night, so too might we, by our actions, bring new light to the world: light to those living in poverty, light for our fragile ecosystems, light for all of our children and the light of religious liberty.
Learn more at http://rac.org/pubs/holidayguides/chanukah/.
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Tu BiShevat: Celebrate the Social Justice Way
Summary: The goal of this guide is to give individuals and congregations a resource that helps them integrate and incorporate social action programming related to the environment within their Tu B’Shevat holiday practices. Three distinct aspects of the environment are examined: natural resources, health issues and endangered species. For each theme, there are suggested activities for individuals and families, as well as program ideas for congregations, youth groups and religious schools.
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The following are a sampling of programs from the Religious Action Center's Environmental Program Bank. View the full program bank at http://resources.rj.org/rac/enviro/.
Community Garden, Temple Israel
Creation of a community garden to harvest and donate produce to area food banks.
Eco-Friendly Sukkot: Greening the Harvest Festival
Suggestions on making Sukkot celebrations environmentally friendly.
Eight Sites of Chanukah
Visit a different social action website each night of Chanukah. Use these sites as a ...
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Environment
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Ecological Kavannah
For the sake of the earth, for the sake of generations to come, and for the sake of all the waters and creatures and plants,
For the sake of all who are hungry, for the sake of thankfulness, and for the sake of our own souls,
May we have the wisdom and courage to protect and restore, and not diminish, the integrity of creation.
May we always open our hearts and our hands to share the bounty of the Earth with all who are in need.
-Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL)
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Summary: The celebration of Sukkot leads us to focus on the importance of shelter and housing, our mandate to welcome others into our homes, the environment and exigencies of nature, and how we use the food we gather from the land to feed ourselves and others. Families, social action chairs, educators, youth group leaders, and other synagogue leaders will find many programs and projects that join together these themes of Sukkot with social action concerns within the following pages.
Learn more at http://urj.org/holidays/sukkot/?syspage=document&item_id=11473.
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Excerpt: This brief guide sets out a five-step process for a committee considering new food policies to learn about traditions of Jewish dietary law, examine the Reform Movement's perspective on these issues over time, and create a meaningful synagogue food policy that promotes healthy, sustainable, ethical eating. With special thanks to Rabbi Jeff Brown.
Learn more at http://urj.org/life/food/?syspage=document&item_id=27463.
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Youth Group Food Program
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Engaging young people – who are ready to think critically and Jewishly about their food decisions – in our discussions on ethical eating is a critical piece of [The Green Table, Just Table] initiative. To help facilitate this discussion, we've created a short template program for youth groups or religious school students to visit a local farm, learn about Jewish values around eating and food systems, and engage in social action projects by 'gleaning' from local farms for those in need.
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Text Studies
The following two text studies link specific passages from the Torah to contemporary environmental issues with sample discussion questions following each text. Both texts focus on "Ecology, Judaism and Tikkun Olam."
Excerpt:
Environment and Social Justice: Caring for the Land
Participant's Materials
...Shabbat and the sabbatical year afford the land the ecologically sound practice of taking a rest. Now we turn to the idea of the jubilee as a time of release of all debts.
In ancient Israel, at each jubilee year, land ...
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A “Living Talmud” is a study document that links Biblical texts with modern commentary and perspectives on pressing environmental issues. These tools can be used in formal and informal study.
Tu Bi'Shevat
Learn more at http://urj.org/green/judaism/education/livingtalmud/.
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A “Living Talmud” is a study document that links Biblical texts with modern commentary and perspectives on pressing environmental issues. These tools can be used in formal and informal study.
Environment
What does Judaism teach us about the environment?
Learn more at http://urj.org/green/judaism/education/livingtalmud/.
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