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Eco Spa Balm Making

Our tradition teaches that Shmirat HaGuf – care of our bodies – is important so that we can do good work in the world. To love ourselves we need to take care of our mind, body, and spirit. Using natural products with simple earth-based ingredients is a way of taking care of our bodies and gifting to others.

ECO SPA BALM MAKING

Microgreens

Microgreens are mini versions of regular vegetables. The shoots are harvested at a young age, before they grow into fully matured plants. They have a wonderful flavor and are richer in nutrition than their larger counterparts. Best of all, microgreens are fun and easy to grow!

Microgreens

Paper Making

As we learn from our tradition, we have a responsibility to care for the trees we have and to plan trees for the future. Recycled papermaking is a way of making new paper without needing to harvest more trees.

Paper Making

Pickling 101

There are many options to preserve each season’s harvest, including canning, vinegar pickling, drying, blanching and freezing. This particular activity teaches lacto-fermentation pickling – an easy, fun and extremely health-friendly method of food preservation. Participants will take home a jar of their own and in a few days will be able to eat their own pickles!

Pickling 101

Jewish Learning From The Roots Up!

Unplugging, slowing down and taking the time to learn and live in nature fosters responsibility and independence within young learners, as they form deeper connections to the Earth based on gratitude, awareness, and joy.

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Translated as “Release,” Shmita is integral to the Torah’s vision of a just society. Though the specifics of Shmita observance have changed throughout Jewish history, its inherent values remain prescient. Shmita, with its dual acknowledgment and transcendence of the agricultural and economic realm, offers an opportunity for social reset and renewal to the entire Jewish world – and beyond.

This 3rd edition is completely redesigned with the user experience in mind, many additional sources, and more thorough commentary and explanations. This comprehensive, accessible sourcebook is well-suited for individual, partnered, and group study, with guiding text and discussion questions to enhance your learning, regardless of educational background. The Hazon Shmita Sourcebook offers a holistic understanding of Shmita, from the depth of Jewish tradition to the most pressing issues of our time.

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Hazon partnered with EarthX to produce episodes on Jewish environmentalism for the Faith is Green series on EarthxTV. This brand new original series details how we can all strive to create a more environmentally sustainable world through observance of Jewish values such as respect, fairness, responsibility, and community.

Episodes were available for free on EarthxTV for a year. The shows are currently unavailable due to international media agreements. Please check back in the future; we will reactivate the links as soon as the shows are available again.

Episode 1: Jews and the Land

How Jews are connecting and reconnecting to the land through farming, nature education, ritual, and more.

Featuring:

• Talia Chain | Founder, Sadeh
• Micha Chetrit | Farmer/Co-Founder of The Midbar Project
• Risa Alyson Cooper | Executive Director, Shoresh
• Yosef Gillers | Co-Executive Director, GrowTorah
• Rabbi Zelig Golden | Executive Director, Wilderness Torah
• Shani Mink | Executive Director, Jewish Farmer Network
• Shamu Sadeh | Director of Education at Isabella Freedman, Hazon
• Nigel Savage | Founder and CEO, Hazon

Episode 2: The Jewish Calendar, Planet Earth and the Climate Crisis

A reflection on the ways that Jewish holidays and cycles of time are informing the Jewish environmental movement. 

Featuring:

• Dr. Jeremy Benstein | Heschel Center for Sustainability and 929
• Rabbi Jill Hammer | Academy for Jewish Religion
• Sara Just-Michael | Grow Torah
• Dr. Adriane Leveen | HUC-JIR, New York
• Nigel Savage | Hazon
• Jonathan Schorsch | Green Sabbath Project
• Yoshi Silverstein | Mitsui Collective

Episode 3: Jews and Food 

Explore how the centuries-old tradition of “keeping kosher” is playing out in fascinating and sustainable new ways in the 21st century.

Featuring:

• Jenny Goldfarb | Unreal Deli
• Devora Kimelman-Block | KOL Foods
• Leah Koenig | Author
• Nate Looney | Westside Urban Gardens and Avodah
• Becky O’Brien | Hazon
• Nigel Savage | Hazon
• Hannah Style | Feast With Us

Episode 4: Jewish Activism for a More Sustainable World 

From Moses in the Bible, to Heschel and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jewish life has already been about making change in the wider world. In this episode, we hear from a range of Jewish activists who are driving change in the wider world.

Featuring:

• Rabbi Shoshana Friedman | Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
• Jakir Manela | Hazon and Pearlstone Center
• Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright | New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
• Sue Salinger | Ekar Farm
• Nigel Savage | Hazon
• Charlene Seidle | Leichtag Foundation
• Yoni Stadlin | Eden Village Camp

Episode 5: Israel and the Environment

A look at leading, cutting edge sustainability efforts in Israel from clean tech, to academic, to non-profit, and more, and how the environmental movement contributes to peace-building. 

Featuring:

• Yossi Abramowitz | Energiya Global Capital and the Arava Power Company
• Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed | Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
• Einat Kramer | Teva Ivri
• Nova Levtziyon Nadan and Hadas Shafrir | Value2 – The House for Responsible Investments
• Nigel Savage | Hazon
• Elaine Solowey | Arava Institute
• Alon Tal | Member of the Knesset

Episode 6: Young Jews and Planet Earth

Learn from Jewish youth (under 30) and the environmental programs and activities they’re involved in as participants and/or leaders.

Featuring:

• Jonah Goldman | PLNT Burger
• Ryan Kaplan | Jewish Community Center of Krakow
• Penelope Kopp | Jewish Youth Climate Movement
• Liana Rothman | Hazon and Jewish Youth Climate Movement
• Nigel Savage | Hazon
• Erin Schrode | Turning Green
• Margot Seigle | Linke Fligl

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This Guide is designed to be an interesting educational resource and discussion stimulator as well as a practical set of tips and tools for you to adopt. The goal is for you to more closely align your Shabbat practices with your sustainability and Jewish values.

Produced in partnership with Dayenu.

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