Category: Food & Climate

Faith is Green

yesHazon 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...

Ice Block on the Seder Table

From the Jewish Climate Network: We are asking our community to place an ice block beside the Seder plate and open up a conversation about climate change this year (2022),…

The Egg on the Seder Plate

yesAs you prepare for the Passover seder this year, consider using these four questions to help inform your own conscious food choices, and to enhance...

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…

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…

Industrial Animal Agriculture and Climate Change – A Story Source Sheet

yesThe connection between industrial animal agriculture and climate change is significant. But why and how is that so? This two-page source sheet presents a string of...

Setting a Conscious Table

yesAs you prepare for the Passover seder this year, consider using these four questions to help inform your own conscious food choices, and to enhance...

A Hanukkah Dilemma: Dairy Making, Judith and the Dairy Industry

yesThree-fold workshop, which involves delving into the history of dairy on Hanukkah, making cheese and butter, and a discussion about the dairy industry and striving...

Exploring the Water Cycle and Hebrew Holidays

yesStudents will learn how the Jewish holidays relate to the water cycle. We will look at the water cycle of North East United States &...

Breaking Bread Together

yesBreaking Bread Together was a community event of cross-cultural engagement over local, regeneratively grown, heritage grains. ...

Jewish Food for Thought: Caring for Pollinators

yesThe series of programs focuses on the interconnections between Judaism, nature, and food – aiming to explore the threads of interconnectedness that bind people, plants,...

Tu B’shvat Outdoor Adventure

yesThis is a scavenger hunt style program designed as a celebration of Tu B?shvat, the New Year for the Trees. Through a variety of hands-on...

dTHS Stands in Solidarity with the Global Climate Strike

yesThe goal of the program is to educate students and faculty about the global climate crisis and provide them with tangible tools as individuals and...

Topsy Turvy Bus

yesThis curriculum engages students with the Topsy Turvy Bus and its sustainable attributes and teaches about sunlight and vegetable oil as alternative energy sources. ...

The First Cheese

yesParticipants will learn to make ricotta cheese from fresh goat milk, while digging into various Jewish and secular texts, guided by the question: ?Why do...

Sweet as Honey

yesThis curriculum introduces honey, honeybees, and their connection to Jewish tradition. ...