Center for Environment and Sustainability

Providing the Inspiration and the Tools to be Agents for Tikkun Olam

At Isabella Freedman, we believe that environmental stewardship is a primary ethical obligation. With our planet's ability to support life diminishing, a great change in our stewardship of the earth is required more now than ever before. Yet in the face of overwhelming need, we often feel helpless to make a difference.

As an active reminder that our actions matter, we offer programs that give participants the knowledge, skills and confidence to be active agents for tikkun olam (healing the world) inside and outside the Jewish community. All of our environmental programs are deeply rooted in Judaism, a tradition intricately connected to nature's rhythms and grounded in the value that all life is sacred.

Young adults in their 20s can participate in the ADAMAH three-month Jewish farming fellowship and everyone is invited for a Taste of ADAMAH. Families can spend a Day at the Farm, teens can get back to nature with the Yitziah Backpacking and Canoeing Trip and all guests are invited to enjoy and even help out on our organic farm.

Isabella Freedman also co-sponsors an Environmental Professional Seminar with the Teva Learning Center and the annual Jewish Environmental Bike Ride and Food Conference with Hazon.

Click here to learn more about our environmental commitment, including the ways in which we conserve energy and water, limit the use of toxic chemicals, reduce waste, and prepare and serve food with the environment in mind. We also partnered with UJA-Federation of NY to help green the network of Jewish agencies in the New York area.

View or download a presentation on Global Climate Change by Adam Berman.