tree planting Archives – Jewish Journal

World Environment Day 2023 at Dorado Beach, A Ritz-Carlton Reserve

Lisa Ellen Niver June 5, 2023

The blessings of prayer, liturgical or personal

Esther D. Kustanowitz February 9, 2017

Take Tu B’Shevat to heart and start healing nature

Andy Lipkis January 18, 2008

These are the times for which Tu B\’Shevat was created. The rabbis who envisioned this holiday were prophetic: They knew we would need to be reminded on a regular basis about howimportant trees are to our lives. And trees have never been more important to our survival than they are today.

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

Susan Freudenheim July 6, 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 Circuit

Gaby Wenig February 26, 2004

All over Los Angeles, Jewish groups were finding innovative ways to commemorate Tu B\’Shevat, the 15th day of the Jewish month of Shevat, which is the New Year for trees.

Plant a Tree, Save a Car

Rob Eshman January 16, 2003

When I was a kid in Hebrew school, all we did to celebrate Tu B\’Shevat was send some money to Israel to plant a tree.\n\nNot unimportant, but hardly a High Holiday.