Bringing Jewish education outdoors has many benefits! Here are our top 4: 1. To make Jewish learning more engaging and relevant Imagine spending all day in school and then spending another few hours in a classroom as your only exposure…
Category: Culture
WOW for Bees and Honey!
Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding, insight into a meaning greater than ourselves. The beginning of awe is wonder, and the beginning of wisdom is awe. -Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel WOW is our favorite…
Top 3 Ways to Sweeten Your New Year
We are thrilled to offer the community these three awesome ways to honor family and friends this Rosh Hashana. 1. Honey Our honey bees have been working super hard gathering and transforming nectar for Bela Farm’s wildflowers into honey and…
Sharing Our Vision
This post is an excerpt from Risa Alyson Cooper’s vision sharing at The Bela Farm Grand Opening on June 26, 2016. Bruchim ha’baim! Welcome again! We’ve arrived at Dina’s Tent, named for the only daughter mentioned in the Torah of…
Bela Farm Grand Opening
Bela Farm Grand Opening Opening Remarks by Risa Alyson Cooper Sunday, June 26, 2016 B’ruchim ha’baim. Welcome friends. My name is Risa Alyson Cooper, I am one of the Directors of Shoresh, and it is my deep honour and privilege…
If You Plant It, They Will Come
Shoresh’s favourite word is “wow” and one of our all-time-favourite sources of wonder and wow is the process of pollination. Watching a bee fly from flower to flower seeking nectar and pollen while inadvertantly spreading pollen from one flower to…
The Shoresh Socialite: Leah Koenig
We caught up with Leah Koenig, food writer and cookbook author to talk about the evolution of the New Jewish Food Movement, why Jewish foodies need to become environmentalists and why food justice is a Jewish idea. You were a…
The Shoresh Socialite: Anthony Rose
Shoresh loves chef/restaurateur/yogi Anthony Rose and all the amazing contributions he’s made to nurturing Jewish food culture in Toronto. We first met him at Beyond Bubbie, an event we co-organized with the Ontario Jewish Archives and the Miles Nadal JCC to…
Happy Birthday to the Trees!
If not for the trees, human life could not exist. Midrash Sifre (Deuteronomy) 20:19 Our ancestors understood that human life depends on trees. They understood this so deeply that they wrote about trees extensively and created a holiday,…