Category: Jewish Food traditions

Tu B’Shvat Haggadah

yesThe Hazon Tu B’Shvat Haggadah offer thoughts and ideas to help you celebrate Tu B’Shvat in your home or community. The texts, questions, activities, and...

Blessing Our Food Waste

yesThrough the practice of a food waste ritual, we can find deep lessons in how we gather, cook, and scrap food. We visually express those...

Greening Chanukah Guide

yesThe Greening Chanukah Guide offers an overview of Chanukah through the lens of sustainability. Find tips and tricks for greening your holiday and learn more...

Setting a Conscious Table – four questions to help you prepare a Passover Seder

yesAs you prepare for the Passover seder this year, consider using these four questions to help inform your own conscious food choices, and to enhance...

Tasting the Torah, Torah as a Food Memoir of the Jewish People

yesThere are anecdotal stories about food throughout the Torah. These food-cameos are, perhaps, even more instructive in the origins of Jewish food culture than the...

Let’s Eat! Why Do We Eat Together?

yesThis program is designed to be primarily a discussion based around eating, looking both at Jewish texts as well as secular contemporary sources....

Making Grape Juice

yesThis program is a lesson on making grape juice from grapes. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss what makes grape juice holy....

Rosh Hashana Symbolism Through Food

yesA Rosh Hashana seder during which you will be connecting food to different intentions for the new year....

Home Experience: Elderberry Syrup Buffet

yesElderberry Syrup Buffet is a hands-on lesson about simple plant medicine making with tangible connections to place and seasons....

Tiyul Adventure Camp?s Israel Day at Pearlstone

yesTiyul Camp?s Israel Day introduces campers to Israeli culture by using personal and Biblical stories as teaching tools, prioritizing experiences of togetherness and nature connection,...

Eco-Kosher: Innovation in Jewish Tradition through an Environmental Lens

yesHow can we use concepts of environmentalism to augment and evolve our understanding of what constitutes kosher food? What if we draw on the concept...

Where Does Your Food Come From?

yesThis program will introduce participants to the Jewish brachot over food and educate them about the food supply chain....

Passover on the Farm

yesThis program was designed for families with young children to connect with each other, their community, and the earth through multi-sensory activities centered around Passover...

The First Cheese

yesParticipants will learn to make ricotta cheese from fresh goat milk, while digging into various Jewish and secular texts, guided by the question: ?Why do...

Garden Shabbat

yesThis program is an introduction to the intersection of Judaism and agriculture, woven through the experience of a Shabbat dinner with blessings, food, conversation Jews...

Sweet as Honey

yesThis curriculum introduces honey, honeybees, and their connection to Jewish tradition....