Tu Bishvat

The Basic Balaboosta launches Tu Bishvat candle collection celebrating trees and fungi

The viral Jewish decor brand debuts the Evergreen scented candle and a hand-crafted “Mystic Mushroom” trio ahead of the holiday.

The Basic Balaboosta launches Tu Bishvat candle collection celebrating trees and fungi
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Children arrive for the first day of school in the Israeli town of Mevaseret Zion, September 1, 2025.

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On Tu Bishvat, the new year of trees, try some new bread

Just as with life, baking bread can be a reminder that you are only partially in control – however much you want to feel otherwise.

 JUST AS with life, baking bread reminds you that you are only partially in control.

Negev Bedouin protests an issue long ignored by Israel - analysis

As the country saw this week in the Negev, when Israel turns a blind eye to longstanding issues, they tend to pop up and smack you in the face.

 Israeli security forces detain a Bedouin man during a protest against forestation at the Negev desert village of Sawe al-Atrash, southern Israel January 12, 2022.

Pascale's Kitchen: Tu Bishvat fruits

We are used to eating lots of dried fruit on Tu Bishvat, but there’s really no reason we can’t eat them all year long.

 Decadent dried fruit cake.

Tu Bishvat: Planting trees in Israel

This story is dedicated, on his first Yahrzeit, to the great collector Ezra Goredesky z”l, a friend for 40 years.

 SEASONAL DRAWING, Ze’ev Raban, ‘Moadim.’

Tu Bishvat: There's Jewish tradition in trees

According to Jewish mystic tradition, Tu Bishvat is the day when God renews sustenance and the life cycle of trees (when the sap starts to rise).

 MANY PIOUS Jews hold a Tu Bishvat Seder, an ancient tradition upheld in Safed. Pictured: Seder in Meron, last January.

KKL-JNF: Fighting to defeat the climate crisis 

An interview with Avraham Duvdevani, world chairman of KKL-JNF, which is helping develop the Land of Israel

 AVRAHAM DUVDEVANI has been at the helm of KKL-JNF since November 2020

How Israel revolutionized Tu Bishvat - opinion

Tu Bishvat it the Jewish holiday which is considered the birthday for the trees.

 A TU BISHVAT table filled with fruits and nuts.

Tu Bishvat, and a message of hope

It is surprising that Tu Bishvat, the celebration of a “New Year for the Trees,” falls in the middle of the winter.

 A TU BISHVAT table filled with fruits and nuts.

Rebranding Tu Bishvat via an environmental lens

Tu Bishvat is an opportunity to study how factory-farming violates Torah doctrines concerning animal welfare and environmental protection.

Gali Savaryego tends to Nir, a calf with an artificial leg and eye cover that protects him from flies, at Freedom Farm on Moshav Olesh.

'A gold standard for aliyah' Zionism in the face of Israel-hatred today

I like to recall my own epiphany: that moment when I knew I would live in Israel.

THE GOLD family gathering at Kibbutz Nir Etzion.