Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rabbi Barry Marks Tomorrow on the Jewish calendar is a minor holiday, but one that, in our current circumstances, has great ...

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This year the Jewish community will celebrate the holiday of (literally, the 15th day of the month Shevat) from sunset January 24 through sunset January 25. What is this holiday all about? Well, Tu ...

Tu B’Shevat, also known as “the New Year for the trees,” starts at sundown on February 9. (So soon? Why, it seems like it was just the 10th of Tevet!) Like a Rorschach inkblot, this holiday can reveal ...

We have neglected the trees we claim to be celebrating, writes a professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary. NEW YORK (JTA) — Though deep in the winter of North America, we American Jews ...

Millennia before Nebraskan J. Sterling Morton established America’s National Arbor Day in 1872, the Jews had an annual New Year for Trees. While not a well-known holiday like Passover, Tu B'Shevat is ...

MATTIE ETTENHEIM (Former Education Associate, Eldridge Street Synagogue): Tu B’Shevat is a holiday celebrating trees. Essentially, it's the New Year of the trees. (Speaking to children): Why is Tu ...