Past Events
Witness Wilderness Shabbaton
June 17-19, 2005.
For the sixth year, Adam va-Adamah held its Wilderness Shabbaton in the beautiful Elaho Valley June 17-19, 2005.
We arrived before Shabbat and set up camp and enclosed it with an eruv. Despite the rain, we enjoyed Shabbat and
the physical closeness to all of Hashem's creation. The Uts'am Witness Program, sponsored by the Squamish First
Nation, joined us at the campsite and we shared insight from our traditions, including Havdalah after Shabbat.
http://www.utsam-witness.ca/
The rain cleared by Sunday morning and we returned home, feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.
“Atem Ei’dai ne’um Ha’Shem “ (You are my witnesses) - Yeshaya (Isaiah) 43:10
Take the Eight Days - Eight Actions Pledge
Hanukkah, December 2004 - January 2005.
This Hanukkah to January 25, 2005, take the pledge to help with repairing the world - Tikkun Olam.
Small steps make the difference.
Tu B'shvat "The New Year of Trees"
Monday January 24, 2005
Journey Through the Four Worlds of Tu B'Shevat with a Kabbalistic seder, Torah learning, and tree talk.
5:30pm doors open (pizza for purchase), 6:30pm program.
$5/person or $20/family.
Schara Tzedeck; 3476 Oak St, Vancouver
For more information or to volunteer educator@av-a.org.
February 6 & 8, 2004
Janurary 19, 2003
January 27, 2002 (link to photos)
February 7, 2001
January 22, 2000
Click here to find out about our community-wide celebration of Tu b'Shvat (a traditional Jewish observance of the "New Year of the Trees.")
Spirituality and The Environment: Vancouver Forum 2003A multifaith conference co-sponsored by Adam va-Adamah. March 16, 2003 SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver
Bike-athon
April 27, 2003
April 29, 2001
Participants of all ages cycled from Congregation Shaarey Tefilah in Vancouver to Congregation Beth Tikvah in Richmond, a 54Km round-trip.
Wilderness Shabbaton
June 13-15, 2003
June 7-9, 2002
June, 2001
June, 2000
June, 1999
Participants celebrate Shabbat in the Elaho Valley and then join the Squamish Nation's Witness/Uts'am program to experience today's old-growth forests.
Mid-summer camp at Birkenhead Lake
July 19-21,2002
Eco-Ethics Shabbaton
October 25-27, 2002 at Sunwolf Outdoor Centre in Squamish
May 11-13, 2001 at Camp Miriam on Garbiola Island
February 18-20, 2000 at Sea-to-Sky Retreat Centre near Whistler
Participants learn about Jewish ethics and the environment in beautiful settings around BC.
Youth Programs
·Adam va-Admah's program for youth environmental education in collaboration with Vancouver Talmud Torah, funded by an E-team grant from B.C. Ministry of the Environment, Lands and Parks, and the Vancouver Jewish Community. Since that time, thousands of youngsters from Jewish day schools, Hebrew schools and youth groups have participated. Inquiries: info@av-a.org
· Organized Waste-Free Lunch Week at Talmud Torah
· Began an on-going outdoor activity club at the Vancouver Talmud Torah, involving nearly 50 children
In the Community
· Initiated an environmental audit of public buildings in the Jewish community
· Letter about Jewish persepectives on vegetarianism published in Jewish Western Bulletin, April 2003
· Letter about the negative effects of using bread during Tashlich pubished by Jewish Western Bulletin, September, 2002.
· Letter on Genetically Modified Foods published by Jewish Western Bulletin, February, 2002.
· Raised $2000 for the Wildwood Demonstration Forest, a sustainable forest in Duncan, BC., March, 2001..
· Letter signed by 5 Vancouver rabbis calling for action on habitat destruction and endangered species species published by Jewish Western
Bulletin, January, 2000
· Joined the B.C. Endangered Species Coalition.
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