Jewish Reconstructionist Federation

Are you a Jewish educator invested in the future of our earth?
Registration is now open!
www.tevacenter.org/seminar
June 7-10, 2010
Surprise Lake Camp in Cold Spring, NY

Come meet, learn, pray and share with others also passionate about Jewish environmentalism. Join Torah scholars, farmers, educators, students and scientists to engage in contemporary topics of Jewish environmentalism. Participants will leave with curriculum, connections and skills to run Jewish environmental programming at their summer camp.

We offer four curricular tracks:
• Camp and Wilderness: Teach Jewish values through camping, hiking, backpacking, drama and storytelling.
• Ethics and Texts: Debate different approaches to reading texts with a diverse array of Torah scholars. This track includes educators from Hebrew College.
• Congregational Education: Bring Lively and effective Jewish environmental programming to your classroom, congregation or community.
• Organic Agriculture and Educational Gardening: Learn to design and maintain a thriving educational garden. This track facilitated by the Jewish Farm School

New for 2010:
• Teva/JNF educator certification- choose to join a cohort of certified Jewish environmental educators
• Lessons for connecting to Israel though the natural world
• Opportunities for interfaith dialogue

Participants have had this to say:
• “A program that puts you in the mind-set of thinking proactively and positively about changing environmental consciousness and places the values of sustainability and healthy ecology at the forefront.”
• “An outstanding Jewish environmental education seminar that I wish all religious school instructors could attend.”
• “An interesting source of learning for how the environment connects with Judaism and how Judaism connects with me.”

For more information please contact Leora Mallach at seminar@tevacenter.org

For more information about the Seminar, or to register, please go to: www.tevacenter.org/seminar

The Teva Learning Center is proud to offset the costs of the Teva Seminar though Good Energy Initiative and JNF GoNeutral.
Participants will have the opportunity to offset their travel carbon.