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April 22, 2022
(RNS) โ The tradition of shmita, a Jewish answer to how to fight climate change, is spreading beyond Israel.
March 8, 2022
Berkeley filmmaker Abby Ginzberg won an NAACP Image Award for a documentary about the East Bay congressperson Barbara Lee.
February 11, 2022
An art exhibit offers up ideas and meditations on rituals to bring shmita into our daily lives.
December 24, 2021
Every seven years, Jews celebrate a shmita year. As we embark on 2022, could this ancient tradition be a cure for our modern malaise?
March 17, 2021
Hazon, the Jewish Lab for Sustainability non-profit, officially opened submissions for The Shmita Prizesโ an international arts competition with five different prizes. The goal is to draw attention to and raise awareness of the forthcoming shmita year (beginning Rosh Hashanah 2021). Categories include: ritual object, fine art, film or video, performance art/music/liturgy, plus a fifth category for the written word โ essays and ideas.ย Shmita is โa year of letting goโ. It takes place e...
March 5, 2021
But first, I want to put these prizes in context, beginning with a word about shabbat, shmitaโs temporal Jewish sibling. The world needs shabbat right now. We need boundaries. We need rest. We need time when we switch off electronics. We need at least one day that we donโt buy stuff. We need at least one day that we spend with family and friends. After a boundary-less year of covid, our need for some kind of structured shabbat has never been greater. And so, then, to shmita. The word means...