Category: Jewish Food Traditions

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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,...

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

This 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 and the coming of spring….

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...

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...