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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.

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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.

Tu BiShvat Videos

Learn more about the Jewish holiday of Tu BiShvat with these videos.

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.

Chocolate cookies for the Jewish Holiday of Tu BiSh'vat

Chocolate Chip Mystery Mandelbrot

Recipe by

Tina Wasserman

Mandelbrot means “almond bread” in Yiddish, but its origins are the biscotti cookies that were created in Italy more than 700 years ago. This recipe is featured in Tina Wasserman's book, Entree to Judaism for Families filled with tools to help children learn to cook with confidence, with clear, step-by-step instructions for every recipe and tips for adults to make the experience safe and rewarding.

Israeli children, eyes covered, reciting the Sh'ma

Planting “Trees” to Fulfill the Dream of Israel’s Founders

Rabbi Ofek Meir

Tu BiShvat (Jewish Arbor Day) is the time of year when Israeli schoolchildren plant trees. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that a teacher instituted the tree-planting custom.

Wildfire Recovery: A Tu BiShvat Tale

Juliette Hirt

When a wildfire leveled my home when I was 20, I fell into a deep depression. Later, when I began to re-engage, I started to associate my emergence with Tu BiShvat.

Smoke billowing from a tower against a sunset

On this Tu Bishvat and MLK Day, Address Environmental Injustice

Aaron Torop

This year, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Tu Bishvat (the Jewish "New Year of the Trees") both occur on January 21, 2019, and the 15^th of Shvat 5779.

Two loaves of challah on a silver platter next to a cup of wine

How We're "Rooting" Reform Judaism in the Sands of Holon

Rabbi Galit Cohen-Kedem

Miraculously, a delicate network of threads is emerging amongst us, linking us heart to heart.

Greening Your Congregation as One Way to Make It Holy

Julie Bank

When a group of us – congregants from University Synagogue in Los Angeles, CA – attended the Consultation on Conscience a few years ago, we learned about the GreenFaith Energy Shield, a program that encourages faith communities to reduce their carbon footprint. We returned home ready to put our faith into action.