Jewcology » Jon Greenberg https://beta.jewcology.com Home of the Jewish Environmental Movement Thu, 04 Jun 2015 13:39:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Torah tour of Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Sunday, July 22, 2012 https://beta.jewcology.com/2012/07/torah-tour-of-brooklyn-botanic-garder-sunday-july-22-2012/ https://beta.jewcology.com/2012/07/torah-tour-of-brooklyn-botanic-garder-sunday-july-22-2012/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:19:31 +0000 http://jewcology.org/2012/07/torah-tour-of-brooklyn-botanic-garder-sunday-july-22-2012/ Torah tour of Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Sunday, July 22, 2012 11 AM

This is a great way to spend part of a Sunday during the three weeks.

We will meet at the Flatbush entrance to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (corner of Flatbush Avenue and Empire Blvd.) at 11 AM. Admission to the Garden is $10 for adults, $5 for students age 12 and older and seniors age 65 or older, and free for members and children under age 12. There is an additional $5 charge (cash only, please) for the Torah tour. Children will also receive a free craft project to take home. The Flatbush entrance to the Garden is near the Prospect Park subway station on the Q line (The B line does not operate on Sundays). More detailed directions are available on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Web site.

No reservation is necessary, but I would appreciate an e-mail to jon@torahflora.org just to let me know to expect you, especially if you plan to bring any children: I have a free take-home craft project for them, and need to know how many to bring.

You'll find up to date details about all Torah Flora events on the Events page of TorahFlora.org.

I hope to see you soon!

Best wishes,

Jon Greenberg, Ph.D.
Biblical and Talmudic botanist
TorahFlora.org

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Highlights include:

  • The Chanukah story they DIDN’T tell you as a child
  • Why a nineteenth-century rabbi used botany to make sense of Kabbalat Shabbat
  • The hidden tree and advice to adult children and parents in Psalms 92 and 128

The fee for the program is $3 for YM-YWHA and JOY members and $8 for all others. For more information or to reserve a place, contact Susan Silberner at ssilberner@yahoo.com or 908-289-8112 X 34. The YM-YWHA of Union County is located at 501 Green Lane, Union, NJ 07083.

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