Our Alliance Partners are organizations that share Teva’s values and mission. Many of these organizations' founders and leaders have come through Teva personally and been profoundly inspired by their experiences, going on to establish their own organization in the field of Jewish environmental education.
Adamah Fellowship at Isabella Freedman
AdaMah'nitoba
Adva Network
Eden Village Camp
Etz Chayim DC Collective
Ganei Beantown: Beantown Jewish Gardens
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Jewish Farm School
Kayam Farm at Pearlstone
Pushing the Envelope Farm
Shoresh Jewish Environmental Programs - Kavanah Garden
Urban Adamah
Yahel - Israel Service Learning
Yiddish Farm
Adamah Fellowship at Isabella Freedman
The Adamah Jewish Environmental Fellowship is a three-month leadership training program for Jewish young adults in their twenties that integrates organic farming, sustainable living, Jewish learning, community building and contemplative spiritual practice.
AdaMah'nitoba
The AdaMah'nitoba Project is a grass-rooted and poplar-crowned project created to share Adamah, Earth consciousness with Adam, humans, in Manitoba. In particular they are focused on what Jews can do to improve our relationships with and as part of Earth's living systems, and to spread awareness of what our ancient tradition has to say about protecting that which we share in common—our air, water, atmosphere, land, food systems, forests, etc.—so that coming generations can make use of and enjoy them in perpetuity, m'dor l'dor (from generation to generation).
The Adva Network
The Adva Network represents the fusion of alumni from the Teva Learning Center and Adamah: The Jewish Environmental Fellowship, innovative programs that produce future Jewish environmental leaders. The network provides alumni of the Teva Learning Center/Alliance and Adamah Fellowship with support, direction, and the skills to be communal leaders and activists.
Eden Village Camp
A unique sleepaway camp inspired by Teva! Eden Village Camp is a first-of-its-kind nonprofit Jewish environmental sleepaway camp, located 50 miles north of Manhattan on 248 beautiful acres. The 3rd-12th-grade campers & apprentices build leadership, outdoor skills, & positive Jewish identity. A close, inclusive Jewish community develops through shared experience including organic farming and outdoor adventure activities.
Etz Chayim DC Collective
Etz Chayim DC Collective is a group of individual Jewish environmental educators and activists in the Washington D.C. area working to promote Jewish education and sustainable practices in their community. Teva's own Laura Bellows leads this group of activists.
Ganei Beantown: Beantown Jewish Gardens
Beantown Jewish Gardens will coalesce local initiatives and expand in Greater Boston by engaging our community in hands-on Jewish agricultural programs. Facilitating a connection between Judaism and food and agriculture breathes new life into Jewish tradition, community, and identity and engages the Jewish community in the question of how to feed ourselves and the world in a just and sustainable manner.
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
The Isabella Freedman Center is the fall home of Teva! Located in Falls Village, CT aims to build spiritually vibrant, socially progressive Jewish community. They provide retreat experiences that inspire a love of Jewish learning, strengthen the bonds of community, and cultivate leadership and responsibility. The Center is home to a number of other fantastic programs, including:
Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality, which offers transformational and cutting-edge retreat experiences to explore Jewish wisdom and our evolving traditions.
The Jewish Greening Fellowship aims to reduce the carbon footprints of its participating network agencies and place the environment high on the agenda of every agency that participates. With the support of UJA-Federation of New York, the Fellowship provides intensive training and ongoing support over the course of 18 months to a cohort of fellows from our partner organizations.
Jewish Farm School
The Jewish Farm School is an educational organization comprised of farmers, builders, writers and educators. Its core mission is to practice and promote sustainable agriculture in order to cultivate just food systems rooted in sustainability, responsibility, and Jewish traditions.
Kayam Farm at Pearlstone
Kayam Farm at Pearlstone works to embody and inspire social and ecological responsibility through hands-on Jewish agricultural education. Located in Reisterstown, MD, Kayam Farm welcomes close to 3,000 participants to the farm each year for field trips, volunteering, summer camp, holiday celebrations, skills workshops, and more.
Pushing the Envelope Farm
Pushing the Envelope Farm is creating a Jewish land-based learning center that will incorporate Jewish values and learning to bring together the body and mind in the pursuit of a healthy rooted life.
Shoresh Jewish Environmental Programs - Kavanah Garden
In 2009, Shoresh opened the Kavanah Garden, an organic educational garden at the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community Campus in Vaughan. Shoresh’s flagship programming space, the Kavanah Garden seeks to model and inspire Jewish social and environmental responsibility.
Urban Adamah
Urban Adamah (“earth” in Hebrew) is a community organic farm and Jewish environmental education center located in Berkeley, CA. Their farm is run by groups of young adults who participate in a three-month residential leadership training program called the Urban Adamah Fellowship. The Fellowship integrates urban organic farming, direct social justice work and progressive Jewish living and learning. Urban Adamah Fellows operate the farm, teach programs to farm visitors that combine sustainable agriculture and Jewish tradition, and serve as interns at local community organizations that address issues of poverty and food security. Twelve Urban Adamah fellows are selected each spring, summer and fall to participate in the Urban Adamah Fellowship. All produce grown on our farm is distributed to members of the community most in need primarily through churches and local food banks.
Yahel - Israel Service Learning
Yahel is an educational organization that offers service learning and social action programs in Israel. They are passionate about getting people to work side by side in order to bring about personal and social change. Yahel works hand in hand with partners in Israel and abroad who share our vision. They offer tailored programs for non-Israeli groups who seek to experience Israel beyond the tour bus and make a real contribution to Israeli society. Their goal is to offer high-quality immersion programs that are community based and unique in its depth and sustainability.
Yiddish Farm
Yiddish Farm is an organization laying the foundation for a Yiddish-speaking pluralistic community. Their farm-based programs bring together native and non-native Yiddish speakers, and create opportunities for the larger Jewish community to share in the rich culture of diaspora Jewry.
The three pillars of the organization are:
1. Yiddish as a living language
2. Pluralistic Jewish community
3. Environmental stewardship through sustainable agriculture
