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Join Leora Mallach for a Shabbat lunch discussion: In the season between Purim and Passover, we are asked, in a variety of ways, to be thinking about and caring for others. Our ancient agricultural laws provide some guidelines for how we might think about the hungry among us. Come prepared to think about the food […]
Join the Temple Reyim community and Ganei Beantown for a Tu Bishvat themed Lunch & Learn. After Shabbat services, we will gather for lunch, and then have a program focused on how we’re all connected- people and planet. We will examine some Jewish source texts of economic and agricultural structures that ask us to consider […]
As part of our congregation’s sponsorship of the upcoming Boston Jewish Food Conference, we will learn from Leora Mallach, director of Ganei Beantown (Beantown Jewish Gardens), about the week’s parsha, our Jewish Food Values, and the upcoming Boston Jewish Food Conference. You’d be surprised at how they all connect! Please join us for Shabbat Services […]
We are coordinating home hosted local Shabbat dinners to match hosts with guests. We’ll provide points for discussion, you come ready to eat and engage.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow Shabbat morning, May 16, 10am Rabbi Arthur Waskow, author and founder of the Shalom Center, is one of the American Jewish community’s pre-eminent teachers and activists on social justice and climate change. What insights does the Torah provide in response to human degradation of the planet? What revolutionary action does our tradition […]
Food Day Shabbat/ Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan/ October 24, 2014 What is Food Day? Food Day inspires Americans to change their diets for the better and to improve our food policies. Every October 24, thousands of events all around the country bring Americans together to celebrate and enjoy real food and to take action to solve food-related problems […]
In celebration of National Food Day, we are coordinating home-hosted Shabbat dinners. Food Day is a nationwide celebration of healthy, affordable and sustainably produced food and a grassroots campaign for better food policies. It builds all year long and culminates on October 24 with events all around the United States encouraging Americans to “eat real”– that […]
