{"id":381,"date":"2017-01-13T19:14:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2017-01-13T22:51:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T22:51:55","slug":"tu-bishvat-new-year-of-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/tu-bishvat-new-year-of-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Tu BiShvat \u2014 New Year of Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed-Heh, Israel, 1981<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since ancient times, Jews have celebrated the New Year of Trees on the 15th of the month of Shvat (February 10 at sundown in 2017). In Israel, the cold, rainy winter is coming to an end and flowering almond trees announce the arrival of spring.<\/p>\n

\"cov_whatonearth_250px\"Today, in Israel and the diaspora, TuBishvat has become the Jewish Earth Day and I’m pleased that Jewish educators are planning to include What On Earth Can We Do?<\/em> in their Tu BiShvat and Tikkun Olam<\/em> (repairing the world) programming.<\/p>\n

In honor of Tu BiShvat, I’ve compiled a selection of my photographs and drawings of trees.<\/p>\n

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Croton-on-Hudson, NY, 1975<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Providence, RI, 1976<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lake Tahoe, NV, 1993<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Zurich, 2002<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red Rock State Park, AZ, 2003<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Asticou Azalea Garden, Northeast Harbor, ME<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Istanbul, Turkey, 2005<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Newton, MA, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Newton, MA, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Since ancient times, Jews have celebrated the New Year of Trees on the 15th of the month of Shvat (February 10 at sundown in 2017). In Israel, the cold, rainy winter is coming to an end and flowering almond trees announce the arrival of spring. Today, in Israel and the diaspora, TuBishvat has become the … Continue reading “Tu BiShvat \u2014 New Year of Trees”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,10,16,76,53],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ecology","tag-environment","tag-nature","tag-trees","tag-tu-bishvat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7v1ZG-69","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilysper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}