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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DIY Yad Whittling

Categories: Crafting + DIY
Tags: DIY, jewish tradition, sacred objects, skills, torah
Age: Middle School

Eating Animals

How much do you know about the food that’s on your plate? Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer, the film Eating Animals is an urgent, eye-opening look at the environmental, economic, and…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Animals, Food & Climate, Food Systems & Food Justice,
Tags: Adult learning, animals, farm and garden, food justice
Age: Adults, Teens, Young Adults

Eco Spa Balm Making

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

Envisioning Sabbatical Culture: a Shmita manifesto

Through 60 pages of poetic visioning and illustrations, Yigal Deutscher weaves language and art into a Shmita dreamscape, exploring foundational questions: What is the deeper mythic symbolism of Shmita? What is the hidden invitation that…
Categories: Shmita
Age: Adults

Etz Chaim: An Exploration

Categories: Crafting + DIY, Herbalism & Wild Edibles, Spiritual Nature Experience
Tags: forest, natural ink, torah, Wild Edibles
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Elementary, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Faith is Green

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

Farm Infusions: Eco-spa

Categories: Crafting + DIY, Herbalism & Wild Edibles, Jewish Food Traditions, Spiritual Nature Experience
Tags: DIY, essential oils, herbology, herbs, infusions, salve, self-care, spa
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Farm to Friday Nosh:pitality Shabbat

Categories: Food & Climate, Jewish Food Traditions, Shabbat and Holidays
Tags: farm and garden, Farm to table, food justice, Shabbat, urban agriculture, young adults
Age: Young Adults

Farmer Michael’s Wagon Garden

Categories: Food & Climate, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness
Tags: early childhood, farm and garden, planting, seeds, waste
Age: Early Childhood

Fire Building – Even if its Raining

Categories: Group-building, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness
Tags: Fire, nonrenewable resources, renewalble resources
Age: B'nai Mitzvah, Teens

Fit to Eat

Purchase a hard copy of Fit to Eat Download a digital copy of Fit to Eat Without sustenance, there is no Torah. Without Torah, there is no sustenance. Pirke Avot 3:21 The link between food and faith obligates us as Jews to challenge the injustice of hunger, champion…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Food Systems & Food Justice
Tags: community, food justice, food policy, institutions, waste
Age: Adults

Food and Climate Movie List

If you’re interested in starting conversations about food and climate in the Jewish community and beyond, movies are an effective and entertaining way to start. This list includes movies on food waste and climate change,…