Read our Rosh Hashanah blog post below:
HIGH HOLIDAY GUIDE LAUNCH
Are you ready for the Jewish high holidays?? We are excited to share our Jewish Holiday guide with you!
Inside, we’re looking at Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah. It’s filled with information about Ethical Kashrut and includes a list of suggestions to bring that meaningful practice into your home.
We are thrilled with the FOURTEEN delicious holiday recipes and are very thankful to each of our contributors. We hope you will enjoy these and share them with others! We’re here to help you have delicious plant-based celebrations for these holidays and we want to wish you a very Happy New Year! שָׁנָה טוֹבָה
Download our free guide to learn about the upcoming holidays, Ethical Kashrut, plant-based recipes & more through shamayim.us/highholidays.
To find the guide on the website go to’ Learning’ → ‘Resources’ → and find the Jewish Holidays Resources section!
CAMPUS FELLOWS
Our 2024- 2025 Campus Fellows have started their campus activism projects! Check out some of the spotlights below:
SYNAGOGUE VEGAN CHALLENGE
Our Synagogue Vegan Challenge Cohort 8 has officially launched! Check out some of the amazing educational, vegan events so far:
“We hosted a beautiful community town hall, which among other things served as a “big reveal” for our new partnerships for the year, including with Shamayim and the Synagogue Vegan Challenge. We served “unchicken” tenders and chickpea fries from Peacefood Cafe. Several people came up to me to share how delicious the food was and to express gratitude for being inclusive of their dietary preferences and needs.
[We opened] a community conversation among participants about intentional eating, the ways eating mindfully is an integrative part of building our intentional community, and community members’ own relationship with plant-based eating. [We] shared why a plant-based diet is a value for us personally in our home, and why we want to do more programming around veganism this year.”
“It was a wonderful evening! The service was beautiful. We served food from a local Kosher, Vegan Chinese Restaurant-Veggie Fun. There were around 80 people in attendance. Our Rabbi, Michael Fel, spoke during dinner. He began with quotes from the Torah and introduced the Synagogue Vegan Challenge, some of the topics that we will be discussing and focused on Food Justice and the food choices that we make.”
“The event was a success. We were able to collect a significant amount of trash from shores of the Kaw. We served vegan granola bars, fig bars, chickpea puffs, apples, and bananas. We began the event with a brief presentation about the Synagogue Vegan Challenge and the ecological benefits of veganism as well as a presentation by Ken Lassman, part of Lawrence Ecological Teams United in Sustainability, a member of the LJCC Tikkun Olam committee, and the author behind the local prairie almanac published regularly in the Lawrence Times. Ken explained the interconnection of continental waterways and that the work that we were about to do in Burcham Park was consequential as far as Mexico. By my lights, participants felt pleased with the work we were able to do and were happy to see the synagogue contributing to the repair of the world in this way.”
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