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Hazon in the News – June 2012
Press Jewish Groups Call for “Just Farm Bill” in Western Farm Press Jewish Groups Deliver 18,000 Signatures To House, Administration Calling For A “Just Farm Bill” in AgriMArketing Jewish Organizations Petition U.S. Government on Food Justice in JTA Jews for a Just Farm Bill in New Jersey Jewish News Hazon Cross-USA Ride Photos [1] [2] in the Daily Record Chains Oiled, Legs Stretched: Jewish Cross-Country Bike Ride Rolls from Seattle in JTNews Riding Across the U.S., Hazon Bikers are Spokespeople for Food Justice in JTA Riding Across the U.S., Hazon Bikers are Spokespeople for Food Justice on JewishJournal.com Riding Across the U.S., Hazon Bikers are Spokespeople for Food Justice in Arizona Jewish Post The Kosher Conundrum: When Healthy Lunch Meets Tight Budgets, Dietary Rules on Care2 The Organic Epicure: Capturing the energy of the local Jewish food scene in JWeekly Finding Torah in the American Wilderness in JTA Siach: Lessons from a Lived Experiment in Jewish Peoplehood in eJewishPhilanthropy Blogs T-2 Days and Counting on Adi’s Amazing Adventures One and Done… or Not on Lester’s Spoke ‘n Word The Meat Experiment on Evenewra Brainsite Gail Wechsler in Israel in St Louis Jewish Light Food in the News on MyJewishLearning
Great Fundraising Letters
Check out some fundraising letters from some of the members of the New York Ride Planning Committee.
Week 4: Miles City – Aberdeen, SD
The Hazon Cross-USA Ride travels from Miles City to Aberdeen this week. See where it’s stopping!
Join Hazon at Altshul!
We invite you to join the Altshul community on July 14 for Shabbat services and reconnect friends from the Hazon New York Ride! Come enjoy a delicious, healthy and sustainable kiddush after services, sponsored by Hazon. (more…)
Rejuvenating Ourselves and Our Planet
Jewcology is a diverse platform for Jewish environmental activists to learn from each other in order to educate Jewish communities about our responsibility to protect the environment. Hazon is excited to share these resources with you! We promote the interrelatedness of shabbat as a time to reflect on environmental and sustainable ideas through many of our programs and resources. Our Food Guide has kosher sustainable meat options, Greening Your Shabbat Table, Sustainable Kiddush, and all of our Food Programs help you to draw connections between Jewish tradition and contemporary food issues. By Rabbi Yonatan Neril In modern society, we are running, speaking, and thinking at an exceptional rate, and oftentimes we continue all week long without slowing down. Constantly doing, always mobile accessible, habitually multi-tasking. If being too busy is a malady of modern man, slowing down on Shabbat may be a key remedy. The Torah teaches, “These are the things that the Divine commanded to make. Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have sanctity, a day of complete rest to G-d…” Achieving sanctity and complete rest is the stated goal of Shabbat. Yet how can this happen? (more…)
[Cross-USA Ride] Recap – Week 3 From Helena to Miles City
This week, the ride began in Spokane WA and ends in Helena at Carroll College where they’ll be joined by Rabbi Ed Staffman visiting from Bozeman.
Support Colorado Wildfire Relief
Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with those impacted by the ongoing wildfires burning throughout Colorado.
Announcing the Winners of The Jewish Lens Shavuot 2012/5772 Photography Contest
Congratulations to each of the students for submitting incredible photographs and commentary for our Making a Difference contest!
Bike Ride around the Jersey Shore with Friends of the Arava Institute
Sunday, July 8th, 8:30 AM Ventnor, NJ Join The Friends of the Arava Institute for a Bike Ride starting in Ventnor, NJ. You are invited to join us for the ride. David Lehrer, Executive Director of the Arava Institute, the premier environmental teaching and research program in the Middle East, will join us for the ride and will provide an update on the activities and accomplishments at the Institute. (more…)
Reflections from Siach: Conversations on the Kinneret
Last weekend, 120 social and environmental justice leaders from Jewish communities around the world came together to build connections, cooperation, and conversation.
Bringing Life to Hazon’s Mission On Campus
Brandeis Food Day raised awareness of locally, ethically and sustainable food, from agriculture to pisciculture.
Sustainability in the Land of Israel
Jewcology is a diverse platform for Jewish environmental activists to learn from each other in order to educate Jewish communities about our responsibility to protect the environment. Hazon is excited to share these resources with you! We work to create a healthier and more sustainable Israel through our Israel Ride, our Sustainable Food Tour, and Siach (conversation). Learn more about sustainability in the land of Israel using this resource from Jewcology: By Rabbi Yonatan Neril Abraham and Sarah came to Israel over 3700 years ago. Since then, significant populations of Jews have spent over 1600 years living in the Land of Israel. For much of this time, Jews have been involved in growing crops, tending fruit trees, and shepherding animals, activities critical to providing food to sustain those living in Israel. Yet they also presented challenges to environmental sustainability in the Land. How did Jews manage to live in the Land for so long? While the Torah teaches that Divine Providence (in response to the people following the commandments) played the fundamental role, the Oral Tradition as redacted in the Mishna also provides insights. (more…)
[Cross-USA Ride] Why Are We Riding?
So why are we cycling for sustainable food systems?
[Cross-USA Ride] Recap – Week 2 From Spokane to Helena
This week, the ride began in Spokane WA and ends in Helena at Carroll College where they’ll be joined by Rabbi Ed Staffman visiting from Bozeman.
