Bay Area Earth-based groups embrace the Sephardic Rosh Hashanah seder this year By Dan Pine Sep 5, 2023 Updated on Sept. 6 at 10:06 a.m. Noémie Hakim-Serfaty is racing against the clock to collect recipes from her aunt, who lives in France. In her job at Urban Adamah, Hakim-Serfaty is one of the…
Community Where to celebrate Sukkot around the Bay Area By Lea Loeb Sep 28, 2023 With Yom Kippur in the rearview mirror and the days growing a little bit shorter, Sukkot is right around the corner. The holiday begins the evening of Friday, Sept. 29, and ends a week later on Oct.…
Northern California At San Quentin prison seder, the Exodus story is personal By Alix Wall Apr 7, 2023 Tedrick Greer Sims Jr. has observed Passover many times inside San Quentin State Prison over the years, but this time he could easily answer why this night was different from all other nights. “I’m…
Bay Area Urban Adamah makes house call with produce for seniors By David A.M. Wilensky Mar 18, 2020 Lorelai Kude, a member of Aquarian Minyan in the East Bay, wondered what Urban Adamah, the Jewish urban farm in Berkeley, was doing with all of its fresh produce during the shelter-in-place order.…
Bay Area Urban Adamah grows a new community space, completing campus plan By Lillian Ilsley-Greene Sep 1, 2022 Urban Adamah, the Jewish community farm and spiritual center in Berkeley, will begin construction on a new gathering space this month which, when it opens, will complete plans for the campus that…
First Person Why I spent the saddest day of the Jewish year chopping vegetables in a soup kitchen By Kate O’Bannon Aug 16, 2023 Last month, I joined friends and other volunteers to chop vegetables and prepare soup at Repair the World Bay Area’s service to support the “Wednesday Souper Saucers” program. Each week, the mutual…
Kids & Family Family-friendly Sukkot events around the Bay Area By Lea Loeb Sep 19, 2023 With Yom Kippur almost in the rearview mirror and the days growing just a little bit shorter, Sukkot is right around the corner! This year, Sukkot begins the evening of Friday, Sept. 29 and ends a…
Religion UPDATED: Free and low-cost High Holiday services around the Bay Area By Lea Loeb Aug 30, 2023 Updated on Sept. 8 at 4:37 p.m. Craving community for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, but don’t know where to go? Welcome to our annual list of free and low-cost services open to the public. Any High…
Our Crowd Honors, happenings, opportunities, comings and goings — Sept. 2023 By Lea Loeb Sep 28, 2023 Comings & goings There are several new staff members at Urban Adamah, the 13-year-old organic farm and Jewish learning center in Berkeley. Elaina Marshalek, who has degrees in forestry and…
Urban Adamah seeking new fellows By J. Correspondent Jan 20, 2012 Urban Adamah is accepting applications for its spring 2012 young adult fellowship. The three-month residential leadership-training program integrates urban organic farming, social justice work and…
Urban Adamah fellowships available for 2012 By J. Correspondent Nov 18, 2011 Urban Adamah, the Berkeley-based community organic farm and Jewish environmental education center, is accepting applications for its spring and summer 2012 fellowships. The three-month residential…
Music Berkeley Jewish music retreat will be ‘a mini university’ By Andrew Esensten Aug 22, 2022 For years, the East Coast has hosted the best Jewish music retreats, from Let My People Sing! in Falls Village, Connecticut to Hadar’s Rising Song Intensive in New York City. Next month, that kind of…
Bay Area Helping people invest their money in solutions to climate change By Dan Pine Feb 11, 2021 When the week-old Biden administration announced its first steps on climate change — such as halting new oil and gas leases on public lands and mandating electric vehicles for the federal government…
Swap meet on tap at Urban Adamah By J. Correspondent May 3, 2013 Urban Adamah in Berkeley is hosting “Sunday Skillshare and Swap Meet” to shed light on the teachings and values of shmita. Known as the sabbatical year for Israeli farmers, shmita is a…
Moon program begins anew at Urban Adamah By J. Correspondent Nov 15, 2013 Girls and their moms — and/or other women in their lives — are invited to take part in Levanah, a monthly gathering organized jointly by Urban Adamah and Wilderness Torah. The second…
Opinion Urban Adamah deserves respectful dialogue, not bullying By J. Correspondent May 9, 2014 In August 2012, I ran one of my first kosher slaughter workshops at the Urban Adamah educational farm in Berkeley. I explained the kosher process and demonstrated live slaughter and processing on a…
Urban Adamah explains decision to slaughter hens By Dan Pine May 30, 2014 Now that Urban Adamah’s 15 hens have been slaughtered under kosher guidelines and turned into chicken soup, animal rights activists and leaders of the Jewish farm and education center in Berkeley are…
Urban Adamah celebrates on its new property By David A.M. Wilensky Oct 30, 2015 Since their birth in early July, baby goats Shlomo and Jojo have been the stars of the show at Urban Adamah, the Jewish educational farm in Berkeley. So it’s no surprise that l’chaim was said over…
Urban Adamah offers Hebrew school on farm By J. Correspondent Aug 16, 2013 Urban Adamah offers Hebrew school on farm Urban Adamah, the Berkeley-based farm and Jewish environmental education program, is enrolling students in grades 3 and 4 in “Hebrew School on the…
Bay Area Fresh face at Or Shalom: S.F.’s only Reconstructionist synagogue welcomes new rabbi By Gabe Stutman Jul 18, 2023 San Francisco’s only Reconstructionist congregation welcomed a new rabbi this month, a relief, synagogue leaders said, following a trying period marked by pandemic isolation and significant staff…
News Under pressure, Urban Adamah cancels kosher slaughter workshop By Dan Pine, Andy Altman-Ohr May 2, 2014 A Berkeley workshop on kosher slaughter — during which 15 hens were to be killed — was canceled this week amid public outcry from animal rights groups and others. Urban Adamah initially stood firm…
Talking With ... Q&A: For this environmentally conscious business, just one word — plastics By Alix Wall Jul 17, 2020 Matt Zimbalist, 32, co-founded the Re-Up Refill Shop, which encourages consumers to cut down their use of single-use plastic containers. The site sells a range of household products, from cleansers…
Cabbage patch kids dig Berkeley Camp Urban Adamah By Alix Wall Mar 16, 2012 Last summer, 6-year-old Jemima Heaslip was adamant that she did not want to go to camp. “I don’t know what she thought camp was, but she said, ‘I’m not going.’ She was sure she didn’t want to go,”…
Urban Adamah buys phenomenal new site in Berkeley By Andy Altman-Ohr May 31, 2013 Urban Adamah executive director Adam Berman calls it “a once-in-a-generation find” — the 2.2-acre site next to a creek in northwest Berkeley that his nonprofit has purchased. In announcing the…