Tu Bishvat

The Olive trees in Israel have been around for centuries if not millennia.

This year, instead of throwing away the peels after we eat the fruit, I decided to make candied peels, which can be used to adorn cakes, or be eaten alone as a snack.

Congratulations to Ian Parkinson of the United Kingdom.

The goal, he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, is to “do really particular storytelling in order to create a connection between a person and a tree.”

This week the Jewish calendar marks the New Year for trees, Tu Bishvat. Beginning with the Mishna in Rosh Hashanah, the occasion has been turned by many communities into a fruit festival.

Retired college professor Richard H. Schwartz plans to lead a Tu Bishvat Seder at his retirement village in Shoresh and to lead or participate in several online version

The modern movement of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel moved what was a Kabbalistic holiday to a national one.

Tu Bishvat, the ‘New Year for the Trees,’ is the date when trees in the land of Israel emerge from their winter slumber and begin the cycle of fruit-bearing.

Although dried fruits are traditionally consumed for the winter holiday, adding fresh fruit to the table has more benefits

Tu Bishvat became a day for planting trees, and in 1908, Jewish National Fund and the educational system officially adopted this practice.