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Every Tu BiShvat Is a Second Chance

Tu BiShvat, the precursor to Earth Day, should make us alert to our air, water, animals, and foliage – and all that we’re doing to destroy them.

Hands holding a mound of dirt and a small plant

Tu BiShvat: How Israel Has Planted New Seeds in the Jewish Soul

The way we celebrate Tu BiShvat has changed over the years – a case-in-point of how Jewish life and observance has been transformed in our day, due in no small part thanks to the successes of the State of Israel.

White square bowl containing green olives marinated in herbs with a walnut on top

Persian Zeitun Parvardeh (Marinated Olives)

Even if you can’t find all of the traditional ingredients for this flavorful dish (green Calamata olives and golpar/angelica may be tough to find, depending on your location), the combination of garlic, walnuts and sweet/tart pomegranate molasses with the slightly acidic olives will push this dish to the forefront of your cocktail table.

I am familiar with a Passover seder, but what is a Tu BiShvat seder?

Answered by

Rabbi Victor S. Appell

Tu BiShvat (Hebrew for the 15^th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat) is the new year of the trees.

Why is the Jewish Sabbath observed on Saturday?

Answered by

Rabbi Richard S. Sarason, Ph.D.

Genesis, Chapter 1 provides the basis for the Jewish week and the understanding of its days.

Yom Kippur Worship Services: Haftarah Blessings

The blessing after the reading of haftarah always sanctifies the day on which it is read. Throughout most of the year, that day is Shabbat, but haftarah is also read on the High Holidays.

Galilee Diary: Galilee encounters

Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein

Three encounters from a day with 50 students from HUC, spending their first year in Israel before beginning their studies at the stateside campuses.

Understanding Yom Kippur - Then and Now

Dr. Madelyn Mishkin Katz

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is a concept I came to understand in my early adult years. But this was my understanding during my childhood:

When Soul and Sole Come Together

by Rabbi Elisa F. Koppel I’m not ashamed to admit it: I like shoes. I’m not quite obsessive about them, but I probably have more pairs of shoes than I need, and I’m always finding new ones – you know, the ones that would be perfect with that one outfit.

Galilee Diary: Winter