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Author Archive | Hazon
“I think there’s a connection”: Environmentalism and Jewish Identity
Sasha Lansky, student at Macalester College and Hazon board member, speaks with Yiddish Book Center.
The U.S Farm Bill is a complex bill
The U.S Farm Bill is a complex bill passed by the U.S. Congress every 5-7 years. The Farm Bill contains billions of dollars in funds for agricultural subsidies and farm relief programs, hunger relief and emergency food aid, environmental conservation programs, and many other government programs. It is the major source of U.S. agricultural policy; some have suggested that the Bill be called the Food Bill, because it impacts everything we eat. Learn more and sign the Jewish Petition for a Just Farm Bill.
Planting Seeds of Tikkun
Maya Shetreat-Klein explores Tu B’Shvat, whole grains, gardening, and eating with intention.
A Conversation with Michael Pollan
Ekar Farm Hosts Michael Pollan, Author of the Omnivore’s Dilemma at the Paramount in Denver
“The Tree Song” – A Song for Tu B’Shvat
Today is Tu’Bshvat, the New Year of the Trees! We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate than with a song and a dance!
Trading Laptops for Blacktops [Why I Ride]
Dedicating 10 weeks to unplug, challenge my body, savor the hypnotic cadence of a road bike tour.
COEJL Launches Jewish Energy Covenant Campaign
Aa diverse group of community leaders has joined the Jewish Energy Covenant Campaign
The New York Ride and Retreat Returns to Isabella Freedman
This year, the New York Ride & Retreat will be hosted at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center! If you’ve never been to Freedman, you’re in for a treat! Home to the Adamah program, the sprawling site hosts an organic farm with orchards, permaculture planting, bees, chickens, and ducks. The dining hall prepares amazing delicious, local, sustainable kosher food — using pickles, jams, and goat cheese that are made on site, as well as produce from the farm. The center hugs a beautiful lake you can walk around and borders on miles of hiking trails in the rugged Berkshire hills. Day one of the Ride will explore farms and countryside in northern Connecticut. Day two will take us on rail trails into New York City. On both days, we’ll have a range of different route length options, as well as options for non-riding family members to participate on crew or to cheer from the sidelines. Registration is currently $175 for adult riders, but prices increase on February 15th. Learn more about Adamah, hosted by Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center.
Jewish Food Education Ensures our Future
What we call “Jewish Food Education” is an important part of any Jewish education experience.
Hazon In the News – December 2011
Press Sustainability and Jewish Dietary Laws Presentation in Brandeis in Hillel Day School News Making Sustainable, DIY Hanukkah Lamps in The Olympian Sign Up Now For Local, Organic, Nutritious Vegetables at the J in Jewish St. Louis Hazon’s Guide to Healthy, Sustainable Chanukah Resources on JWeekly.com Registration Open for Hazon Bike Ride on JWeekly.com Registration Begins for 2012 Season of Hazon, JCC’s Organic Produce Program in St. Louis Jewish Light OKY Transitions into the New Year on Camp Newman Blog Osakis Is Stop on Cross-Country Bike Tour in Osakis Review Blogs Biking for the Environment in the Negev Desert in Travelujah Israel on Two Wheels on Jewschool CSA Webinar: A Delectable Success on Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism 8 Nights of Service: Green Your Hanukkah Celebration on Repair the World Add Meaning to Hanukkah This Year on Big Tent Judaism Healthy, Sustainable Hanukkah Resources on Temple Israel Video How To Keep Your Tuchus Happy While Cycling
Hazon In the News – January 2012
Press Food Calendar [Taste of Hazon] on Philly.com From Jerusalem to Eilat, The 2010 Hazon Israel Ride on HaveFunBiking.com Hazon, a Local Jewish Group, Runs Farm, Sustainability Programs in Daily Camera Berkeley Farm to Host Tu B’Shevat Seder on JWeekly.com Tawonga Teens Follow Food’s Journey from Its Source on JWeekly.com Stars of David [Taste of Hazon] in Jewish Exponent “Taste of Hazon” Coming to National Museum of American Jewish History, a Culinary Celebration of Tu B’Shvat on MainLineDish.com Hazon Hopes to ‘Repair the World’ on PittsburghLive.com Daily Courier Israel’s Green Party Champion Sets His Sights on Knesset on JWeekly.com Terri Steen and Doug Stanger Do the Arava Institute/Hazon Israel Bike Ride in Jewish Times of South Jersey Making the Meat We Eat Healthy AND Holy on Boulder Jewish News Share and Share Alike: Boulder’s Jewish Community at Work on JTA Toward the Miraculous Future: A Chanukiya of Predictions for 2012 in eJewishPhilanthropy.com Blogs Hazon Conference – More than Just Food on ROI Hazon to Visit Kehillah on Kehillah Jewish High School Nigel Savage of Hazon at the JCA on Rabbi Weiner’s Blog Connecting New Parents to Jewish Life on UJA-Federation, The Flame Sustainability! Same Message, Different Paths on Voed for Foods Network-Weaver Interview: David Brown [Siach] on JHUB Blog Hazon’s Culinary Celebration of Tu B’Shvat in Philadelphia in Philadelphia Jewish […]
The Jew and the Carrot Round Up – 2/6/2012
great articles from The Jew and the Carrot you may have missed last week
D’Var Torah: Yitro
By Kerry Chaplin The first chapter of parshat Yitro is the Torah’s guidelines for the community organizer. Well before Alinsky, it outlines how to build a leadership to organize community for a specific goal. Yitro, Moses’s father-in-law, met Moses at Mount Sinai, and when he saw that Moses himself ruled for each and every dispute of the people, he was troubled: “The thing that you do is not good! Surely you will drop [from exhaustion], and so too will your people” (Exodus 18:17). He is concerned that Moses will not only wear himself to complete exhaustion, but that there will be no one left to guide the people. It’s a “heavy thing,” he says, and “you will not be able to do it alone” (Ex. 18:18). Those of us who work for food justice see the heaviness of our burden, and we question whether we will achieve our vision of a fed, quenched, and healthy world. Just as Rashi says Moses’s heaviness was greater than his strength, so too the heaviness of our work is greater than a single organizer’s or director’s strength. Yitro offers Moses a solution – an organizing plan applicable to our own vision: “Provide from all […]
Ride with Hazon in the 5 Boro Bike Tour
only one week left to enter the lottery for the 5 Boro Bike Tour
