Here are the Top 10 quick and useful suggestions from Hazon, to make your Sukkot more healthy and sustainable. To find out more information and suggestions from Hazon for Sukkot, visit the Hazon Sukkot Resource Page.
Topic: Holidays
Party in the Sukkah!
Enjoy fun activities and delicious holiday-inspired treats in the Pottruck Family Atrium and in our rooftop sukkah at the San Francisco JCC! Sample and purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at our mini-farmers’ market. Learn environment-saving techniques from Hazon and EcoJews of the Bay and plant crops with the JCCSF’s resident gardener. Join the PJ Library for story time in our Little Library Sukkah. Free. Presented in partnership with Hazon, EcoJews of the Bay, PJ Library and Capay Organics. For more information, go to www.jccsf.org/sukkot
Eat, Pray, Lulav
Head down to the Urban Adamah farm in Berkeley for ‘Eat Pray Lulav,’ a Sukkot Harvest Festival, on Sunday, October 7, from 2-6pm for a family event featuring live musical performances, goats, storytelling, cob stove building, a Really Local Tea Bar, Farm tours, face painting…and much more! (more…)
Sukkah Bike Hop
Join your friends in Colorado for the annual Sukkah Bike Hop! Sunday, October 7 beginning and ending at Chabad NW of Metro Denver (more…)
Jewish Farm School’s Sukkot Harvest Celebration
Jewish Farm School on the Farm at Eden Village, invites you to the Sukkot Harvest Celebration, Sunday, October 7, from 10:30am-2:30pm. We’re celebrating our favorite Jewish holiday with a day of farming, feasting and fun in and around our Sukkah. Be a guest at our table and experience the beauty of our farm in the wealth of natures bounty!
10 Ways to Make your High Holidays More Sustainable
Quick and useful suggestions from Hazon to make your Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur more healthy and sustainable
High Holidays at Isabella Freedman
Travel to Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in the Connecticut Berkshires for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot!
Rosh Hashanah Resources 2012
Rosh Hashanah offers the opportunity for tshuva (returning, repentance) – to return to our best, most full versions of ourselves. We ask “what impact do our actions have on our friends and family, our communities, and on the earth?”
Sukkot Mishpacha on a Farm
Celebrate the harvest festival of Sukkot at Red Wagon Organic Farm
Bees and Honey 101, Build your own hive, Bee Movie screening and more!
How Sweet It Is! A series of honey and bee-related programming hosted by Ekar Farm, Mizel Museum and Hazon.
Shabbat Hazon and Senseless Acts of Kindness
Because the shabbat before tisha b’av is known as Shabbat Hazon, I’m often especially aware of this time of year.
Tisha B’Av: from Mourning to Celebration
Reflections on the period of the three Weeks, a period of mourning between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av.
How do you squeeze 613 dinners into 50 Shabbats?
Learn about the 613+ Shabbat Dinners project created by Congregation Beth Am in Baltimore
Wilderness Torah’s Sukkot on the Farm 2012
Reconnect to your roots this Sukkot with Wilderness Torah! October 4-8, 2012 Green Oaks Creek Farm Pescadero, CA Sukkot on the Farm 2012 Registration is Open! Celebrate the Harvest • Honor the Waters • Sleep Under the Stars Wilderness Torah invites you to gather in a multi-generational community for the sixth annual Sukkot on the Farm Festival – a four-night camp out and celebration of the fall harvest at Green Oaks Creek Farm in Pescadero, CA. (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…)
