Tu B’Shevat

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Let’s make Tu b’Shevat a day to demand action on climate change

We have neglected the trees we claim to be celebrating, writes a professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

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Op-Ed: Tu b’Shvat and the case for eco-Zionism

JERUSALEM (JTA) – The rabbinic tract Midrash Kohelet Raba tells us that when God created Adam, He took him to see each and every tree and plant, telling him to “make sure you do not degrade and spoil my planet – for if you do, there will be none to come after you and restore […]