For Your Community / Tu b’Shevat Learning

Tu b'Shevat 5770 falls this year on the Shabbos of January 29-30, 2010. Whether you are planning a community event, looking for activities for your school, or simply looking to learn what the Torah says about protecting the environment, our 8th Annual Tu b'Shevat Learning and Action Campaign has resources to help you to learn and share the Torah's lessons about our responsibility to protect our environment. See below for details of Torah Learning, Program Ideas and Planting a tree in our virtual forest. Visit our Full library of Tu b'Shevat Resources for 2010 Using our Materials This Tu b'Shevat?  Fill out a simple form to tell us about your participation, and be listed on our partners list! See Our Tu b’Shevat Partners this year
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		For Adults and Communities - Planning a Tu B'Shevat Seder?  We have great learning resources, program materials, speaking notes, and FREE haggadahs for your community!   - Plan a Special Kiddush for Tu b'Shevat   - Order FREE One-Page Haggadot to use in your Community: Order by 18th January to receive yours by Tu B'Shevat   - Order "Appreciation for Creation" Wallet Cards and eco-reminders. Order by 18th January to receive yours by Tu B'Shevat
New!  A full set of text study and program resources for Tu b'Shevat, including stories, source sheets and discussion guides, great for your Tu b'Shevat Seder or other Tu b'Shevat programs! Learn Torah about trees and the environment!  Great articles from our Tu b'Shevat Learning Library: The Trees Sang with Joy: A Teaching for Tu b'Shevat by Jonathan Neril Trees are Us by Rabbi Michael Skobac Learning Faith and Gratitude through our Relationship to Creation by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz The Ten Sayings of Creation by Rabbi Dovid Sears A Jewish Perspective on the "Tragedy of the Commons" by Akiva Wolff Explore our Full Library of Torah Learning Articles for Tu b'Shevat
Help educate & empower the Jewish community to build a sustainable world!  Plant a tree in Canfei Nesharim’s Virtual Forest for Tu b’Shevat 5770.  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 5770 Virtual Forest bloom! Plant a Tree in Israel in partnership with JNF

Library of Tu b'Shevat Resources
Learning Resources for Tu b'Shevat
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
Haggadahs, Wallet Cards and Eco-reminders
The New Year for the Trees: A Tu B'Shvat Story
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
Tu B'Shevat Partners 5769/ 2009
The Jewish “Earth Day”
Tu B'Shevat Partners 5770/ 2010
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
"The Holy Vitebsker at the Kinneret"
The Wind
Virtual Tree order form
Partners Form