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Hazon blogged Shabbat Behar: Bringing Shmita To Your Community

The parsha (weekly Torah reading) of Behar, which literally means ‘On The Mountain,’ introduces the detailed, visionary teachings of Shmita. This particular section of the Torah is located towards the end of the book of Vayikra (Leviticus) and is read each year about a week or two before Shavuot. As we continue to deepen into the process of re-acquainting ourselves with the Shmita tradition, we are very excited to use the opportunity of Parshat Behar as an annual mark, as a rem...more...

Overview_Shmita_Project.pdf

BEHAR_2013_Wider_Context.pdf

Hazon status: SHABBAT BEHAR: Bring Shmita To Your Community! For more info visit http://www.hazon.org/resource/behar-week-of-shmita-study-action/

BEHAR_2013_Wider_Context.pdf

Overview_Shmita_Project.pdf

Hazon blogged Three (Jewish) Communal Actions with Impact!

Fair Food Network is excited to be partnering with Hazon on the following three calls to action. You can learn more about all of these issues by reading Oran Hesterman’s Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All. Together, we can move from being conscious consumers to engaged citizens and transform our food system!  The first call to action is in your kitchen. Make a commitment to spend an additional $10 per week on food the source of which you can tr...more...

Hazon blogged Hazon's Kosher Meat Survey: We Want to Hear from You!

At the 2006 Hazon Food Conference, we posed two key questions: 1. If you’re a meat eater, would you continue to eat meat if you had to kill it yourself? And 2. If you don’t currently eat meat, but could be involved in the process of raising and slaughtering the animal, would you? People's responses varied, but it was clear that the issue was important to nearly everyone in the room. Since 2006, the world of kosher sustainable meat has seen the Agriprocessors scanda...more...

Hazon blogged Scholarships Available for New Riders on the 2011 Hazon California Bike Ride

2011 Hazon California Jewish Environmental Bike Ride Hazon’s 2nd Annual California Bike Ride celebrates participant’s decision to give up their personal vehicles. "The Hazon Ride was an inspirational, eye-opening experience that revealed many of the heart-warming aspects of Judaism that get lost amidst the whirlwind that we know as modern life." - Bill Robbins, Los Angeles Hazon has received an anonymous gift that will allow us to offer both a registration...more...

Hazon blogged Tu B'Shvat Seder

Hazon created a new resource called Hazon's 2011 Tu B'Shvat Resources

 Hazon’s Tu B’Shvat Seder and Sourcebook       Download the 2011 edition of our comprehensive, pluralistic, beautiful haggadah and source book for FREE. Complete with teachings and explanations, our haggadah is available in PDF format so you may print as few or as many copies as you need. Right-click and choose “save as” if you are having trouble… Read More          &nbs...more...

Hazon created an event: Hazon and Congregation Romemu's Seder at the JCC in Manhattan

Hazon created a new resource called The Jewish Food Movement

Jewish Food Movement The new Jewish Food Movement: (draft) 7-year goals Over the past few years, a growing number of Jewish foodies, farmers, rabbis, chefs, teachers, students, families and many others have brought meaning to the words new Jewish Food Movement, asking why and how one can eat in a way that is both deeply Jewish and deeply sustainable. It is time to ask a new question: where will this movement be in 7 years? Last Rosh Hashanah ended the last shmita (sabbatical...more...

Hazon created a new resource called Sustainable Kosher Foods: Cheese, Chocolate, Meat, and Wine

Check out The Jew & The Carrot’s green resource ideas – for holidays, simchas, families, your table, and life! Pages in this section: Kosher Sustainable Cheese List Kosher Sustainable Chocolate List Kosher, sustainable meat Kosher Organic Wine List more...