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Teva in a Box

18th June 2025

Bring participants to the intersection of Judaism and sustainability for a small taste of Teva’s experiential education curriculum. Click on any of the below to view and download PDF instructions for these activities Eco Spa…

Categories: Crafting + DIY, Group-building, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Sustainability

Tags: arts & crafts, DIY, farm and garden, Teva

Updated Shmita Sourcebook

22nd November 2023

The Hazon Shmita Sourcebook presents a guided exploration of the history, concepts, and practices of Shmita, from debt forgiveness to agricultural rest, economic adjustment to charitable giving. The updated sourcebook explores texts and commentaries that…

Categories: Adamah Publications, Environmental Justice, Food Systems & Food Justice, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Shmita, , Sustainability

Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, High School, 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

Recycling Toolkit

16th November 2022

Categories: Environmental Justice, Sustainability

Tags: Adult learning, community

Faith is Green

9th November 2022

Jewish Life & Planet Earth Hazon partnered with EarthX to produce episodes on Jewish environmentalism for the Faith is Green series on EarthxTV. This brand new original series details how we can all strive to create…

Categories: Environmental Justice, Food & Climate, Sustainability

Age: Adults, High School, Young Adults

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

Guess that Smell

17th March 2021

Categories: Spiritual Nature Experience, Sustainability

Tags: Teva

Age: Elementary, Teens

Seed Balls

17th March 2021

Categories: Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Spiritual Nature Experience, Sustainability

Tags: garden, Teva

Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens

Decomposition

17th March 2021

Categories: Food Systems & Food Justice, Sustainability

Tags: Teva, waste

Age: Elementary, Teens

Pickling 101

17th March 2021

There are many options to preserve each season’s harvest, including canning, vinegar pickling, drying, blanching and freezing. This particular activity teaches lacto-fermentation pickling – an easy, fun and extremely health-friendly method of food preservation. Participants…

Categories: Food & Climate, Sustainability

Tags: canning, food preservation, Pickling, Teva

Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens

Microgreens

17th March 2021

Microgreens are mini versions of regular vegetables. The shoots are harvested at a young age, before they grow into fully matured plants. They have a wonderful flavor and are richer in nutrition than their larger…

Categories: Food & Climate, Sustainability

Tags: microgreens, Teva, vegetables

Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens

Paper Making

17th March 2021

As we learn from our tradition, we have a responsibility to care for the trees we have and to plan trees for the future. Recycled papermaking is a way of making new paper without needing…

Categories: Crafting + DIY, Sustainability

Tags: paper making, recycled paper, Teva

Age: Elementary, Teens

Eco Spa Balm Making

17th March 2021

Our tradition teaches that Shmirat HaGuf (care of our bodies) is important so that we can do good work in the world. To love ourselves we need to take care of our mind, body, and…

Categories: Crafting + DIY, Sustainability

Tags: arts & crafts, DIY, Teva

Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens

Veggie Prints Postcards

17th March 2021

Categories: Crafting + DIY, Shabbat and Holidays, Sustainability

Tags: arts & crafts, Natural, Teva

Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens

Birdfeeder

17th March 2021

Categories: Animals, Crafting + DIY, Sustainability

Tags: birdfeeder, Teva

Age: Elementary, Teens

Judaism and Food Waste Source Sheet

1st July 2020

This source sheet is a dive into Jewish tradition’s commentary on prohibitions against wanton waste, environmental stewardship, responsibility for community members in need, and responses to hunger and surplus. We hope that it serves to…

Categories: Food Systems & Food Justice, , Sustainability

Tags: waste

Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, High School, Middle School, Teens

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