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    Tu Bish'vat

    About Tu Bish'vat

    By Alan Lucas
    Excerpted from The Observant Life

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    A Source Sheet on the Environment

    This material was prepared by Ashira Konigsburg. It contains texts and translations that you might find useful in teaching about the environment.

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    The Speech of Trees

    By Jonathan Wittenberg
    Excerpted from The Eternal Journey

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    The Four Questions of Tu Bish'vat

    By Lawrence Troster

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    Our Covenant with Stones: A Jewish Ecology of Earth

    by Brad Artson (from CJ Journal, Vol. 44 No. 1, Fall 1991)

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    Western Christianity in Ecofeminist Perspective

    by Janet Conway (from CJ Journal, Vol. 44 No. 1, Fall 1991)

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    A Reflection on Tu Bish'vat

    by Jonathan Slater
    Adapted from Mindful Jewish Living

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    Sefardic Customs of Tu Bish’vat

    By Marcelo Polakoff
    Adapted from Secrets Beneath the Trees

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