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A Jewish Response to Climate Change

By: Hannah Taylor Serve the Moment Corps Member Just three days after Earth Day, the Jewish Climate Action Network-Massachusetts convened for their third annual climate conference. The conference, held entirely virtually, ran tracks on Decarbonizing, Advocacy, Soil Carbon, Resilience, and Youth Advocacy, and was attended by over 500 people from across the United States. I was […]

Why we should put Hummus on the (Tu Bishvat) Seder Plate

By Emily Jaeger All right, let’s unpack that title. First of all tu bishvat is the Jewish Arbor Day, or the New Year for Trees, mentioned in Jewish sources as early as 200CE. Inspired by the Passover Seder, the Kabbalists, Rabbis and mystics of the 16th century, designed a tu bishvat seder, an “ordered” meal […]