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Marky Weinstock: “Songs for Dreamers” now available

August 30, 2010
By Leora Mallach
Marky Weinstock: “Songs for Dreamers” now available

MARKY WEINSTOCK: “SONGS FOR DREAMERS” NOW AVAILABLE! Check out the new children’s album from Teva Learning Center’s own Marky (2001-2002). If you have kids, love kids or were once a kid yourself, then this album is for you! You can buy the album or download MP3’s today at… http://www.maplemusic.com/dept.asp?dept_id=7075 Marky Weinstock is a popular...
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Rakia Shemaya: Blessing the mic

August 22, 2010
By Leora Mallach
Rakia Shemaya: Blessing the mic

Rakia takes her name from Biblical Hebrew, meaning the firmament, expanse, or horizon, which separates duality, while at the same time knowing all is One. She is committed to using performance to educate and empower struggling people everywhere through music, dance and lyrics. Rakia’s degree in Education through Movement, Music and Vocalization at Goddard...
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Agahozo Shalom Youth Village seeking volunteers

August 9, 2010
By Leora Mallach
Agahozo Shalom Youth Village seeking volunteers

Dear friends and colleagues, I am recruiting volunteers to spend one year at the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village (ASYV). We are seeking a group of 11 diverse and dedicated volunteers to spend one year volunteering at our youth village in Rwanda. The 12 month service year begins in December 2010. Volunteers directly engage with...
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Sheva Brachot at the Round House

August 9, 2010
By Leora Mallach
Sheva Brachot at the Round House

Celebrate Mati and Risa’s wedding right here in sunny Millerton, NY! Bring instruments, vegan delectables, and drinks of your choice.  Some main dishes will be provided but knowing how you all eat they could go fast. Betcha know everyone on this evite so just come party!!!  Tag-alongs welcome.  I couldn’t think of everyone’s email...
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Kosher Pastured Meat Business launched by Adamah Alums!

August 2, 2010
By AnnaHanau
Kosher Pastured Meat Business launched by Adamah Alums!

Grow and Behold had its first deliveries this week of fresh, kosher, pasture-raised chicken.  What a joy to launch this business!  We’re actively seeking new customers: if you’re in the New York area, please help spread the word.  Chicken is available for delivery every 2 weeks to five different locations around New York City. ...
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Weekend Writing Retreat at Earthlands

July 26, 2010
By Leora Mallach

Weekend Writing Retreat At Earthlands August 20 – 22, 2010 Facilitated by Gila Lyons Hello Friends and Colleagues! I am thrilled to announce that for a second year in a row I will be leading a weekend writing retreat at Earthlands (www.earthlands.org), a beautiful, rural, eco-friendly retreat center. This year we will be focused...
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Earth Based Judaism – Reclaiming Our Roots, Reconnecting to Nature

July 26, 2010
By Leora Mallach

A recent article in ZEEK: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture by alumni Zelig Golden, co-founder and co-director of Wilderness Torah. Read the whole article here. Humanity’s current alienation from nature is unprecedented. As Wendell Berry explained in his seminal 1977 work The Unsettling of America, we are confronted with a “crisis of...
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Recent Adva Community Simchas

July 5, 2010
By Leora Mallach
Recent Adva Community Simchas

We are a community blessed with Simchas…. here’s just a few of the recent ones: Engagements: Elisheva Marguiles (Adamah Fl ‘08) & David Levine Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit (Adamah Su ’03) & Emily Peck Aliza Sandberg (Teva Fl ’09) & Ian Roblee-Hertzmark (Adamah Fl ’05) Alona Jasik (Teva Fl ‘03) & Aharon Abba Monroe Laurel...
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Gan Torah: Children’s Jewish Nature Program

June 27, 2010
By Leora Mallach

Wilderness Torah (www.wildernesstorah.org), based in the Bay Area, and growingly serving Jews interested in reclaiming the spiritual roots of Judaism through nature-based experience and holiday retreats, has established a children’s program. Gan Torah is a weekly, year-round, seasonal program oriented toward students grades 4th-6th seeking to integrate and ground nature-based exploration and environmental action within Jewish spirituality, tradition, and ethics. Gan Torah is an opportunity...
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Josh Lichtman: AVODAH NOLA Program Director

June 27, 2010
By Leora Mallach
Josh Lichtman: AVODAH NOLA Program Director

Prior to his life transforming summer as an Adamah Fellow in 2005, Josh was a corporate lawyer in New York City. Originally from Detroit, his life has been a journey including working at Ingersoll Cabinet Makers, being a farm apprentice at Chubby Bunny Farm in Connecticut, and a development associate at Isabella Freedman Jewish...
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