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Tu B'Shevat 5769 / 2009
Tu b'Shevat 5769 falls this year on February 8th-9th 2009. Join us as we celebrate with our Seventh Annual Tu b'Shevat Learning Campaign to share the Torah's lessons about our responsibility to protect the environment.
*See Our Tu b’Shevat Partners this year
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Torah Learning
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NEW! The Trees Sang with Joy: A Teaching for Tu b'Shevat
by Jonathan Neril
Check out these from our Tu b'Shevat Learning Library:
Reconnecting to Nature
by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
The Jewish Earth Day
by Candace Nachman
Visit our full library of Tu b'Shevat Resources for your personal learning, and to share with your community |
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Program Ideas
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For Children and Teens
The Hakaras Hatov Tree: Giving Thanks to Hashem for Nature: An Activity for 3-6 Year Olds
Making Tu b'Shevat Greeting Cards:
An Activity for 6-10 Year Olds
Learning Session/Preparing Tu b'Shevat for A Senior Community:
An Activity for Teens
Recipes for Tu B'Shevat
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For Adults and Communities
- Plan a Tu B'Shevat Seder for your community
- Plan a Special Kiddush for Tu b'Shevat
- New! Order FREE One-Page Haggadot to use in your Community (while supplies last)
- New! Order FREE "Appreciation for Creation" Wallet Cards to Share with Your Community (while supplies last)
- Send an electronic greeting card to your family and friends wishing them a happy and "green" Tu b'Shevat!
- Possikim to add to your Tu B'Shevat greetings cards
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Plant a Virtual Tree
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Support Torah-environmental education for synagogues and schools!
This Tu b'Shevat, celebrate by planting a tree in our virtual forest! Learn More. You can also invite your community to join you. We are offering awards for communities that donate $250 or more!
Plant Your Tree Now!
Watch our 5769 Virtual Forest bloom!
Plant a Tree in Israel in partnership with JNF
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| As with all Canfei Nesharim efforts, this work would not have been possible without a dedicated team of volunteers and professionals, most of them unpaid or underpaid, to make it all possible. Thank you to: Stephanie Frumkin for designing our kids' programs; Shelly Streilein, our graphic designer; Jonathan Neril, for his new Torah teaching; John Schlackman, our webmaster; our extraordinary team of community lay leaders: Vivian Deutsch, Rena Dubensky, Jessica Haller, David Kahn, David Marks, Evonne Marzouk, and Candace Nachman. Thank you!! |
| Quick list of all of our Tu b'Shevat Resources: |
Full Library of Tu b'Shevat Resources
Activities: 3-6 year olds
Activities: 6-10 year olds
Activities: Teens
A Jewish perspective on the “tragedy of the commons”
Are we lagging Behind on Green Issues?
Am I My Planet's Keeper?
Cosmic Consciousness, Man, and the Worm:
Ecological Problems— Living on Future Generations’ Account
Fruit and Vegetables, Man and Animals
the Unity and Purposefulness of Creation
G-d, Man, and Tree
Global Ecology: On the Road to Redemption
Protection of the Environment, Protection of Ourselves
Learning Faith and Gratitude Through our Relationship to Hashem's Creation
Order Haggadahs and Wallet Cards
Tu B'Shevat Partners 5769/ 2009
Plan a Tu B'Shevat Kiddush
Plan a Tu B'Shevat Seder
Planting The Tabernacle
Re-Connecting to Nature
Recipes for Tu B'Shevat
Shevat Community Campaign
Shepherd Consciousness
The "Green Belt" of the Torah: For Us and Our Animals
The Trees Sang with Joy
The Trees Sang with Joy: Action Suggestions
Trees are Us
The Trees and the Eruv
The "Ten Sayings" of Creation: Unity, Multiplicity, and Ecology
The Trees in Jewish Thought
The Environment in Contemporary Jewish Law
Tree = Man? Or Tree = Man!
The Land is Mine
The Jewish “Earth Day”
Use and Re-use
What is Our Responsibility to Other Creatures?
We Need to Change More Than a Light Bulb
What a Beautiful Tree
You Shall Not Covet
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