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Kosher Weight Loss and Fitness: A Plan for Your Life!
Would you like to weigh less and have more energy?
Tree b’Earthday: Tu B’Shvat Retreat at Isabella Freedman
A very special “Tree b’Earthday” with a pluralistic ecologically engaged Jewish community the week before Tu b’Shevat at Isabella Freedman
Videos from Siach
Siach: An Environment and Social Justice Conversation is a network of activists and professionals in the Jewish community from the USA, Israel, and the UK.
Hazon Friends in the 2011 Best of Kosher Awards
We’re proud to note two friends of Hazon are among this years nominees!
Isabella FreeRadio: Shared Values
Monday, September 19th, 4 PM EST Isabella FreeRadio will speak to Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service and Hazon Rider, and Nigel Savage, Executive Director and Founder of Hazon on the topic of “Shared Values: Why we Bring our Organizations to Isabella Freedman to Dream.” This episode will be hosted by Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield of Jewish Greening Fellowship and Hazon rider. Visit Isabella FreeRadio’s website for instructions on how to listen to online, listen over the phone, or submit a question. UPDATE 9/21/11: Stream or download the episode from JCast Network.
Jewish Week – “Retreat and Advance”
Retreat And Advance Debra Nussbaum Cohen – Staff Writer May 5, 2006 Next Labor Day weekend, Rabbis Jeff Roth and Joanna Katz will carefully remove the Torah scroll from its home at Elat Chayyim, the Jewish retreat center they founded 16 years ago, and carry it on the first leg of the journey to its new home. Then they’ll hand it off to pairs of friends who will take turns walking the holy scroll 62 miles, to the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. Removing the Torah will be the final act by Elat Chayyim’s leaders before they close the retreat center’s doors, bringing to an end a grand experiment in the spiritual renewal of Judaism. People with every kind of Jewish background went to Elat Chayyim to learn and practice meditation, experiment with neo-chasidic practices like chanting and ecstatic movement, and bring an environmentally sensitive consciousness to every act. The problem was that its ramshackle site was too uncomfortably funky for all but the most committed, and its creators and leaders were focused more on teaching than on finances. (more…)
