Adamah Educational Library

Curricula, sourcebooks & educational resources

This open source collection includes resources produced by individuals and organizations throughout the JOFEE field. Our Educational Library, like our community, celebrates the diversity of religious observance and thought and we make every effort to accommodate the breadth and diversity of the Jewish community in our programs and curricula. We hope you will take and use what is appropriate for you and invite others to do the same.

While this resource will continue to grow and evolve, it currently includes:

  • Adamah Publications (available online and in print)
  • Holiday Resources
  • Curricula produced by JOFEE Fellows during their Fellowship year (2017-2019)
  • Curricula and resources shared from partner organizations

All materials are available for free download. Most are available for use and adaptation under creative commons license. Please cite authors and organizations on any materials used or adapted from these resources.

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We Are The Weather Discussion Guide for Jewish Communities

[button color=”red” window= “yes” link=”https://hazonform.wufoo.com/forms/educational-materials-free-download/”]Download We Are the Weather Discussion Guide[/button] We enthusiastically encourage you to read We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer. Hazon created a free discussion guide…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Food & Climate
Age: Adults, Young Adults

Weaving Community

Categories: Crafting + DIY, Group-building, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Sustainability
Tags: arts & crafts, DIY, Melachot, Natural materials, ritual
Age: Early Childhood
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Weekly Parsha Divrei Torah

For the past 20 years, Adamah and its predecessors have been using Jewish tradition as the basis for a series of Jewish Environmental teachings, which we now call Torah of the Earth. Here you can…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Shabbat and Holidays, Shmita
Tags: Shmita
Age: Adults

Where Does Your Food Come From?

Categories: Environmental Justice, Food Systems & Food Justice, Jewish Food Traditions
Tags: brachot, consumerism, environment, ethics, Food, jewish tradition, justice, supply chain
Age: Young Adults

Why Do We Blow Shofar?

Rosh Hashanah and indeed many moments in Jewish life would not be complete without the sound of the Shofar – as we hear this note we reflect on the meaning and origin of the Shofar…
Categories: Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual
Tags: Holidays

Wild and Wonderful Worms

Categories: Animals, Food & Climate
Tags: blessings, community, Compost, ecosystems, K'lal Yisrael, soil, waste, worms
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Early Childhood, Elementary, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Worms: An Exploration of Earthworms

Categories: Animals, Food & Climate, Sustainability
Tags: cycles, decomposition, Earth Day, renewal, waste, worms
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults

WORMS!

Categories: Animals, Food Systems & Food Justice, Jewish Agricultural Traditions
Tags: compassion, Compost, fertilizer, food systems, scraps, soil, waste, worms
Age: Middle School

Yom Kippur Sustainable Resources

What is Yom Kippur? Yom Kippur is one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar. Observance of Yom Kippur traditionally includes fasting; abstaining from leather, lotion, and other physical comforts; and spending the day…
Categories: Shabbat and Holidays
Tags: Holidays

ZMAN KODESH ON THE FARM

Categories: Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Spiritual Nature Experience
Tags: earth-based judaism, farm, liturgy, prayer, Spirituality
Age: Adults, Teens