“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. “
Throughout the planning of Dylan’s Bar Mitzvah, we focused on the significance of this Jewish milestone in his life. However, we also thought about the impact this one event would have on our environment. We would like to share some of the choices we made, and we hope this information will inspire you to make changes in your own life to help preserve our planet.
Dylan’s Bar Mitzvah invitations enabled us to honor each of you, by planting a ...
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Use these texts for great discussion on the meaning of Shabbat and how it can apply to our modern world.
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Environmental Responsibility at School *
by Hadas Yellinek, Coordinator of the Community and Nature Program at Teva Ivri
* Hebrew Version Produced by Teva Ivri – Jewish Nature
English Translation Courtesy of Jewish Agency for Israel – Partnership2Gether
Target Population: Elementary School
Noah lived in a period in which he was required to assume responsibility, listen to the voice of God and save the various species. Each of us should assume Noah’s role. Each of us is responsible for the environment ...
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This Parshat Noach, Canfei Nesharim is pleased to partner with Torah Café to provide a video teaching to help us learn about protecting our environment. Rabbi Yosef Blau and Dr. Mark Altabet serve on Canfei Nesharim’s Rabbinic and Science & Technology Advisory Boards. In this teaching, Rabbi Blau and Dr. Altabet speak about Parshat Noach, our Torah responsibility and climate change.
Please share this video with others who should see it!
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Jews United for Justice has produced a little booklet with a big mission: to work for the day when every one of the $30 million dollars that Jewish families in our area spend on weddings and bar and bat mitzvah celebrations every year will be spent in a way that reflects Jewish values.
Each section of the booklet offers specific suggestions for how families can make purchasing choices for their special day in ways that are mindful of workers’ rights and environmental impact.
The book is illustrated throughout with Jewish teachings, and with the real-l...
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Download a compendium of wonderful resources for Shabbat Noach from members of the Green Hevra, based on the Rainbow Day curriculum! Click on Shabbat_Noach_Resources.pdf below. Here's what's included:
Teach the Rainbow blessing
The Rainbow covenant in Genesis
Teach/learn a song to a verse from Hoshea about the future covenant with all life
A prayer for the Earth (Birkat Bereishit)
Study classical midrashim about Noah
Midrashim: interpretations of the rainbow sign: from Rabbis Arthur Waskow, Shlomo Riskin, Shimshon Rafael Hirsch, and Rav Avraham Yitzhak ...
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There is corn in your cup.
This resource is great to highlight and inform people using corn-based plastics.
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We don't always know what is in the trash.
This graphic, from a magazine, shows what's in our trash and will help you think twice before throwing something away.
It is used by the Riverdale Jewish Center on Green Shabbat annually.
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This sheet has been used at the Riverdale Jewish Center for a few years on "Green Shabbat" to remind people that water is used to make everything! (even cars).
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When it comes to Jewish ecology, then there's nothing more important than getting facts right regarding definitions and terminology, not to mention history.
That's why this article.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132671
is a must-read! Because the roots of Shomron (known as Samaria), are clearly Jewish, not Arab.
Back to the Land, means supporting the right to Jewish settlement in Shomron, too!
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אנו היום מתחילים את שלושת השבועות בין צום יז' בתמוז ובין צום ט' באב
בימים של המנעות מאוכל, יש הזדמנות להתבונן - כיצד אנו אוכלים.
דף לימוד מתוך אתר טבע עברי- האט! אוכל לפניך
של עמותת חזון Food for Thoyght הדף נכתב בהשראת חוברת .
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This D'var Torah was given by Rabbi Yaakov Bieler of Kemp Mill Synagogue in Silver Spring, MD.
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Viñedos y Olivos
משנה מסכת תמיד פרק ב משנה ג
החלו מעלין בגיזרין לסדר אש המערכה וכי כל העצים כשרים למערכה הין כל העצים כשרין למערכה חוץ משל זית ושל גפן אבל באלו רגילין במרביות של תאנה ושל אגוז ושל עץ שמן:
Mishna Tamid, 2:3,
Ellos [los sacerdotes] luego comenzaron a recogerleñas para hacer un fuego. Eran todos los tipos de madera adecuados para el fuego? Todos los tipos de madera eran ...
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A Pair of Modern Meshalim on Environmental Degradation by Jeffrey Spitzer
וַתִּשָּׁחֵת הָאָרֶץ
ר' אהרן ור' ג'פרי
אמר ר' אהרן משל לשר הפנים שביטל את חוקי שמירת הטבע.
לאחר זמן אמר "הארץ מקולקלת"
ואחר כך אמר "קלקלתם את הארץ."
כך אמר הקב"ה "וַתִּשָּׁחֵת הָאָרֶץ"
ואחר כך אמר "כִּי הִשְׁחִית כָּל בָּשָׂר אֶת דַּ...
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Rainbow Day, יום ברית הקשת
Remember the Rainbow Covenant on Shabbat Noach, Shabbat Behar and Rainbow Day!
Celebrate Rainbow Day and the Rainbow Covenant with all life!
In the Rainbow Day curriculum, you'll find Torah, prayers and liturgies, midrashim about rainbows, lesson plans about seed-saving, learning from Hoshea and Ezekiel, Kabbalah and midrash, and project ideas—40 in all—that you can use to celebrate the Rainbow covenant onShabbat Behar and on Rainbow Day (both fall on the same day this year outside of Israel, May 15-16, 2015), and on Shabbat ...
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The Compost Heroes is a resource for parents and educators of children K-12 to intiate enviromental discussion and action. The comic book-style format, the imaginative adventure story, and the appealing animal characters (plucky forest animals 'rescue' garabge and turn it into compost!) make the book fun for the youngest readers, while the footnotes on every page are substantive enough to engage the older students and adults.
Since becoming a Master Composter (NY Department of Sanitation, Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling) , I have led many ...
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