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Tu B’Shevat
Photo by Flora Rosefsky // Rambutan and dragon fruit are exotic new fruits.
August 13, 2021, 11:38 am
What’s New on Your Holiday Table?
Ideas for a new fruit or recipe on a Rosh Hashanah menu.
By Flora Rosefsky
Rabbi Ruth
January 27, 2021, 1:33 pm
Spiritual and Not Religious? Tu B’Shevat is for You
Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder says the New Year for the Trees is the holiday of choice for secular Jews.
By Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder
January 27, 2021, 1:33 pm
Live Intentionally This Shevat
Explore the tastes of Shevat and exchange breath with the trees to foster our coexistence.
By Dr. Terry Segal
Members of The Temple plant trees at Atlanta’s Lenox Park for Trees Atlanta’s annual Tu B’Shevat event.
January 26, 2021, 4:39 pm
A Time to Plant, A Time for Trees
Tu B’Shevat, the New Year of Trees, brings the Jewish community together during COVID.
By Flora Rosefsky
Photos courtesy of Atlanta Jewish Academy // Learning and volunteering are both keys to the annual Service Learning Day.
January 23, 2019, 2:52 pm
AJA Observes Tu B’Shevat and MLK Day with Service
On Jan. 18, in conjunction with Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Tu B’Shevat, Atlanta Jewish Academy held its annual Service Learning Day for the fifth-through 12th-graders.
By AJT Staff
Stacey Jahanfar (left) is CDT’s religious school assistant and communications coordinator Molly Peled, CDT’s religious school director, helped change the curriculum to incorporate more hands-on learning.
January 9, 2019, 2:49 pm
CDT To Plant Daffodils for Holocaust and Tu B’Shevat
Congregation Dor Tamid is the latest Atlanta-area synagogue to join The Daffodil Project.
By Jan Jaben-Eilon
Ahavath Achim Synagogue member Myrtle Lewin (right), one of the annual organizers of the event, digs into the muddy soil with the help of Kristina Armstrong on Feb. 4 (Photo by Eli Gray)
February 6, 2018, 4:44 pm
Cultivating Community Roots Along the BeltLine
A Tu B'Shevat planting proves to be a muddy birthday party for the trees in Atlanta.
Artist Zeev Raban is shown in 1930.
January 25, 2018, 5:49 pm
Tu B’Shevat Plants Crucial Symbolism in Israel
The celebration just before the declaration of the modern Jewish state in 1948 was especially important.
By Rabbi David Geffen
Ken Leinbach is known for commuting to work in Milwaukee by bicycle or kayak.
January 25, 2018, 5:28 pm
Ecologist Finds Israelis Separated From Nature
Ken Leinbach is coming from Milwaukee to speak at the Carter Presidential Library in February.
By Kevin C. Madigan
During a Tu B'Shevat retreat at Ramah Darom in 2017, participants help plant a fruit orchard.
January 25, 2018, 1:20 pm
Tu B’Shevat Happenings in Atlanta 2018
Some options for observing Tu B’Shevat around Atlanta in 2018 which starts Jan. 30.
The lake at the heart of the Ramah Darom serves as a site for recreation and contemplation
March 14, 2017, 2:38 pm
A Look Back: Ramah Darom at 20
Opened in 1997, Ramah Darom charges into the future as a year-round retreat center.
By Patrice Worthy
During a Tu B'Shevat retreat at Ramah Darom in 2017, participants help plant a fruit orchard.
February 14, 2017, 2:45 pm
A Farm-Filled Tu B’Shevat
The first annual Farm to Table Tu B’Shevat festival at Ramah Darom was held the weekend of Feb. 11
By David R. Cohen
Evan Wolfson (right) and his staff track the progress of legalization of same-sex marriage in "The Freedom to Marry," being shown Feb. 13 and 14.
February 10, 2017, 9:30 am
Price Confirmed; Trump Talks; Set for Trees, Songs
Here are the things you need to know for the weekend in Jewish Atlanta on Friday, Feb. 10.
By Atlanta Jewish Times
Children check out their handiwork in a mini-treehouse craft project at Intown Jewish Preschool’s Tu B’Shevat event Sunday, Feb. 5.
February 9, 2017, 5:50 pm
Many Ways to Celebrate the Trees’ New Year
7 ways to celebrate Tu B’Shevat in Atlanta, which falls on Feb. 11.
A reading of “Happy Birthday, Tree!” has preschoolers hanging on every word.
February 9, 2017, 12:30 am
Intown for the Trees
Preschool families share arts and crafts to celebrate Tu B'Shevat.
By Michael Jacobs
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