Tag: Tu B'shevat

The Christ’s thorn (sidr tree) is also a well-known folk medicine

Christ’s thorn jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) also known as the sidr tree is a real, identifiable tree native to the Middle East, and it appears—directly or indirectly—in Islam, Judaism, and later Christian tradition. The connections between the three faiths are not theological agreements but overlapping uses, names, and symbolic associations rooted in the same landscape.

Teaching Tu B’Shevat in classrooms without borders

For many years Hebrew schools in North America barely related to the Jewish holiday of Tu B'shevat, New Year...

Happy New Year Trees, and spiritual reasons for Tu B’Shevat Customs

Tonight marks the end of the Jewish holiday Tu B'Shevat. The Jewish New Year of the trees. Here is...

5 reasons to love Trees on Tu B’Shevat

The Jewish version of Arbor Day Tu B'Shevat is more relevant today than ever. Transformed from a general agricultural...

Tu Bishvat: Is the Jewish New Year of the Trees Green?

Spring has sprung in Israel, marked by almond blossoms and Tu Bishvat The Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat begins as...

Celebrate Tu B’Shvat With a Tu B’Shvat Seder

Tu B'Shvat (the Jewish new year holiday for the trees) happens in late winter.  This means that many people...

Support Bedouin treeplanting and Green education with a Tel Aviv shakedown!

Our resourceful friends at the Bedouin NGO Bustan are refusing to allow the current tension in the South of...

Prophet of the Week: Nigel Savage

"You can trace the recent history of Tu B’shevat seders like branches on a tree." Nigel Savage, originally from Manchester,...