Our Partners

Hazon
Working to create a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community and a healthier and more sustainable world for all. Hazon is Wilderness Torah’s fiscal sponsor. Thank you Hazon!

UpStart Bay Area
Bay Area’s headquarters for Jewish social entrepreneurs. UpStart is Wilderness Torah’s Bay Area non-profit incubator. Thank you UpStart!

Joshua Venture Group
Joshua Venture Group identifies emerging leaders in the Jewish world and champions their visions for social change. Wilderness Torah is a recipient of the 2010 Joshua Venture Fellowship. Thank you Joshua Venture!

Earth-based Judaism

Eber Lat Living Lab
Bridging Aboriginal Hebraism, Rabbinic Judaism and New Paradigm Consciousness – Ancient Wisdom for Today’s People.

Tel Shemesh
A web resource for those who are attempting to integrate Jewish faith and practice with earth-based beliefs and ways of living.

Torah Trek
Providing spiritual wilderness adventures that explore the connections between inner and outer geography, between the journey into the wilderness and the path of the soul.

 

Walking Stick Foundation
An educational organization dedicated to the restoration and preservation of aboriginal Jewish spirituality.

 

Jewish Land-based Community and Agriculture

Adamah
At the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, CT: A three-month leadership training program for Jewish young adults in their 20s that integrates organic farming, sustainable living, Jewish learning, community building and contemplative spiritual practice.

Eco-Israel
Eco-Israel offers English-speaking young adults, ages 18-30, the opportunity to embrace permaculture and sustainable living through intensive hands-on experience and coursework on an organic farm in Israel.

Jewish Farm School
An environmental education organization whose mission is to practice and promote sustainable agriculture and to support food systems rooted in justice and Jewish traditions.

Kayam Farm
A Baltimore, MD based farm at the Pearlstrone Retreat Center that embodies and inspires social and ecological responsibility by transforming  community through hands-on Jewish agricultural education.

 

Nature Awareness & Cultural Mentoring

8 Shields Institute
A California-based organization working to support the development of mentoring-based culture, nature connection and living systems regeneration.

Institute for Natural Learning
A Vermont-based organization dedicated to holistic mentoring facilitates awareness and connection to self, nature, family, community, and spirit.

Jewish Environmental Education

Canfei Nesharim: Sustainable Living Inspired by Torah
Connecting traditional Torah texts with contemporary scientific findings to educate and empower Jewish individuals, organizations and communities to take an active role in protecting the environment, in order to build a more sustainable world.

Organic Torah
Integrating ancient Jewish wisdom as a leading-edge voice in contemporary efforts to create a healthier, more sustainable, prosperous and just world.

Teva Learning Alliance
A New York based Jewish Environmental Education Institute serving participants throughout the Jewish community.

Torah Flora
Devoted to the study of plants and nature in Torah and Jewish tradition.