Israel to plant more than 3,000 trees to memorialize Newtown victims

Published on December 31, 2012

More than 2,000 people have donated funds to plant a grove of more than 3,000 trees in Israel in memory of the victims of the Newtown shooting.

Sapling from Anne Frank’s tree to be planted at Yad Vashem

Published on March 22, 2012

A sapling from the chestnut tree that Anne Frank wrote about in her diary will be planted at Yad Vashem.

Buy your cute and cuddly diseases now, before they sell out!

By Julia Bendis
Published on December 26, 2010

Israel offers good-will gestures for Christmas

Published on December 20, 2010

Christian Palestinian residents of the West Bank will be allowed to enter Israel, including overnight, for Christmas.

Anne Frank’s tree collapses

Published on August 23, 2010

The giant chestnut tree that Anne Frank wrote about several times in her diary collapsed in stormy weather.

Fires of war can’t extinguish the magnitude and majesty of Galilee’s forests

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on July 5, 2007

"We're all healing -- emotionally, psychologically, ecologically," said Paul M. Ginsberg, director of the Forest Department in the Northern Region Office of Keren Kayemeth Leisrael (KKL), the Israeli arm of the Jewish National Fund. He stood on a hillside looking over the Hula Valley, north of the Sea of Galilee. At his back was a hillside forest of trees, many of them charred from last summer's rocket fire.

The city branches into the Tu B’Shevat business to make L.A. naturally beautiful

By Jane Ulman
Published on February 1, 2007

This year, as Jews living in Los Angeles, we are teaming up not only with God but also with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has launched an ambitious drive to plant 1 million new trees in Los Angeles neighborhoods, schoolyards and parks, on both public and private properties, over the next several years.

Reggae grows another Jewish branch

By Karla S. Blume
Published on January 11, 2007

One of the most meaningful Jewish gifts would have to be the planting of an elan, Hebrew for tree, in Israel in one's honor.

And in the case of Los Angeles-born musician Elan, no other name would suit him quite as well.

Draw a Picture Win A Tree

Published on February 1, 2001

Draw a Picture, Win a Tree

Tu B’Shevat Lessons

By Andy Lipkis
Published on February 1, 2001

Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish birthday or new year of the trees, is a really fun and lightweight holiday, celebrated mostly by schoolchildren. As a child, this was one of my favorite holidays. I loved planting trees and somehow felt very much at home with this simple way to participate in tikkun olam (healing the world).

Go Hug a Tree

By Julie G Fax
Published on February 1, 2001

Living in the asphalt-and-glass tangle of Los Angeles, it is sometimes easy to forget that we live in an area blessed with abundant natural beauty, from our gently folded green-and-gold mountains to our powdery sand, glittering sea and everywhere, the regal trees.