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Tu B’Shvat Haggadah

17th January 2025

Adamah’s Haggadot offer texts, questions, and suggestions for viewing Tu B’Shvat through fresh eyes and recontextualizing traditions. The Haggadah is designed to create a similar setting to a Passover seder – creating conversation with friends,…

Categories: Adamah Publications, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Jewish Food Traditions, Tu Bishvat

Tags: Tu B'Shvat

Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Rosh Hashanah Seder

26th September 2024

Symbolic foods and other prayers for the night of Rosh Hashanah Our short guide contains kiddush for Rosh Hashanah, a series of prayers to be recited over different symbolic foods, and other verses and prayers…

Categories: Adamah Publications, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Jewish Food Traditions, Shabbat and Holidays

Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Blessing Our Food Waste

17th November 2023

Through the practice of a food waste ritual, we can find deep lessons in how we gather, cook, and scrap food. We visually express those lessons into a “visual blessing” using actual food scraps and…

Categories: Jewish Food Traditions, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Sustainability

Tags: waste

Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults, Youth

Purim Sustainable Resources

12th January 2023

What is Purim? Purim celebrates Esther and Mordechai’s triumph over Haman. Set in ancient Persia, the Book of Esther tells how an inept monarch allowed a hate-filled minister to threaten the Jewish community. Mordechai aided…

Categories: Adamah Publications, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Food Traditions

Tags: Holidays

The Egg on the Seder Plate

4th March 2022

Use this as a tool for making conscious food choices and to start a discussion about animal welfare at your seder. We discuss many items on the seder plate – but the egg is often…

Categories: Food & Climate, Jewish Food Traditions, Passover, Shabbat and Holidays, Sustainability

Greening Chanukah Guide

1st December 2020

The Greening Chanukah Guide offers an overview of Chanukah through the lens of sustainability. Find tips and tricks for greening your holiday and learn more about the environmental implications of oil production to help create…

Categories: Adamah Publications, Environmental Justice, Jewish Food Traditions, Shabbat and Holidays

Setting a Conscious Table

6th April 2020

Four questions to help you prepare a Passover Seder As you prepare for the Passover seder this year, consider using these four questions to help inform your own conscious food choices, and to enhance your…

Categories: Food & Climate, Jewish Food Traditions, Passover, Shabbat and Holidays, Sustainability

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

31st March 2020

Categories: Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Jewish Food Traditions

Tags: Culture, Food, Kashrut, stories, torah

Age: Adults, High School

Let’s Eat! Why Do We Eat Together?

31st March 2020

Categories: Group-building, Jewish Food Traditions, , Sustainability

Tags: Cheese, discussion, eating, experiential, Food, meals, Text

Age: Adults

Rosh Hashana Symbolism Through Food

31st March 2020

Categories: Jewish Food Traditions, Shabbat and Holidays

Tags: Food, intention, machzor, rosh hashana, symbols, teshuva, tradition

Age: High School, Middle School

Making Grape Juice

31st March 2020

Categories: Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Food Traditions, Shabbat and Holidays

Tags: bracha, DIY, grape juice, Shabbat

Age: Middle School

Home Experience: Elderberry Syrup Buffet

31st March 2020

Categories: Herbalism & Wild Edibles, Jewish Food Traditions, Spiritual Nature Experience

Tags: elderberry, Foraging, immunity, intention setting, kavana, self-care, self-reliance

Age: Adults, Youth

Where Does Your Food Come From?

31st March 2020

Categories: Environmental Justice, Food Systems & Food Justice, Jewish Food Traditions

Tags: brachot, consumerism, environment, ethics, Food, jewish tradition, justice, supply chain

Age: Young Adults

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

31st March 2020

Categories: Environmental Justice, Jewish Food Traditions, Sustainability

Tags: consumerism, eco-kashrut, environment, ethics, Food, kosher, sustainability, values

Age: Adults

Tiyul Adventure Camp?s Israel Day at Pearlstone

31st March 2020

Categories: Jewish Food Traditions, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness

Tags: activities, connection, cooking, Food, hike, Israel

Age: Youth

Passover on the Farm

31st March 2020

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. By Molly Sease from Milk…

Categories: Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Jewish Food Traditions, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Passover

Tags: Food, nature, passover, pesach, seder plate, spring, tradition

Age: Early Childhood

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