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Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, High Holy Days, Holiday How To, Jewish Holidays, Passover, Purim, Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Tu Bishvat, Yom Kippur

How To Do Tu Bishvat

By 18Doors

Tu Bishvat: The New Year of the Trees Called the “Birthday,” “New Year of the Trees” and “Jewish Earth Day,”...

Booklets, Holiday How To, Jewish Holidays, Other Holidays, Tu Bishvat

What’s a Tu Bishvat Seder?

By Miriam Steinberg-Egeth

One festive way to celebrate the easy-going, Earth-loving holiday of Tu Bishvat is with a Tu Bishvat seder....

Seder, Tu Bishvat

Unlocking Tu Bishvat: A Cheat Sheet

By 18Doors

Tu Bishvat is a winter holiday (find upcoming dates in our Jewish holidays cheat sheet) that celebrates the...

Holiday How To, Jewish Holidays, Tu Bishvat

6 Activities for Tu Bishvat With Kids

By Miriam Steinberg-Egeth

Tu Bishvat is sometimes called the Jewish Earth Day or the Birthday of the Trees. This family-friendly holiday...

Books, Holiday How To, Parenting, Parenting Other Holidays, Tu Bishvat

Most Important Jewish Holidays Cheat Sheet

By 18Doors

About the Hebrew Calendar and the Holidays we Celebrate Why are Jewish holidays always changing dates? Jewish...

Hanukkah, Holiday How To, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Holidays Toolbox, Passover, Purim, Religion, Rosh Hashanah, Simchat Torah, Tu Bishvat, Yom Kippur

Tu Bishvat: Interfaith Friendly, Jewish in Nature

By Aaron Kagan

My family never really celebrated Tu Bishvat, though I do have faint recollections of making little tree-shaped...

Other Holidays, Seder, Tu Bishvat

A Snowstorm, My Pup, and a Moment to Celebrate Nature

By Jessie Boatright

It’s Tu Bishvat. The Birthday of the Trees. Hooray trees?!? It is wonderful and important to honor this special...

Parenting Other Holidays, Parenting Stories, Tu Bishvat

Coming Clean with Your Toddler on Tu Bishvat

By Jessie Boatright

Tu Bishvat is a really beautiful holiday; a new year for the trees. It is a time to think about the earth,...

Parenting Other Holidays, Parenting Stories, Tu Bishvat

How a Tin Can and Piece of Paper Taught me to Speak for the Trees

By Jane Larkin

A Jewish National Fund Blue Box similar to the one my grandfather kept on his desk. This week, the Jewish...

Parenting Stories, Tu Bishvat

Tu Bishvat Children’s Books that Matter

By Kathy Bloomfield

When I was a girl, I spent many weekends at my grandmother’s house. She had a HUGE walnut tree in the center...

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Four Worlds, Four People: Tu Bishvat Seder With Meaning

By Miriam Steinberg-Egeth

As a Jewish communal professional working with graduate students, the timeline of my year revolves around a...

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Why Tu Bishvat is the Tree Holiday

By Nancy Seifert Gorod

In Jewish tradition, the tree is the symbol of life. The Torah is referred to as Etz Chaim—the Tree of Life....

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Two Picture Books for Tu Bishvat

By 18Doors

With Tu Bishvat right around the corner, we sat down with two kids books that your families might enjoy reading....

Families, Tu Bishvat

Three Tu Bishvat Haggadot

By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

Originally published on The Velveteen Rabbi. Reprinted with permission of the author. The moon of Tevet is beginning...

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What is Tu Bishvat Anyway?

By 18Doors

Every winter, just as we start to think about spring, a minor holiday comes along. Minor enough that not all...

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A Tu Bishvat Kids Animation

By 18Doors

1401 This fun and educational video from BimBam tells a story and honors trees and the environment on...

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