11. Plant A Tree For Palestine: Tu B'Shvat as Revolutionary Culture.
In another short(ish) holiday episode, Talia & Yaakov work through the utility of Tu B'Shvat as not just a New Year For Trees, but as an opportunity for engaging in theory and practice aimed at mass work with the food-insecure, solidarity work with indigenous Land and Water Protectors, and in particular solidarity work with Palestinians whose land continues to be destroyed by Zionist settlers. Along the way they discuss the pernicious role of the Jewish National Fund in transforming Tu B'Shvat from a kabbalistic seder to a philanthropic arm of the Zionist project, the hypocrisy of liberal ecology and the shortcomings of treating Tu B'Shvat as a Jewish Earth Day, the Halakhic roots of the holiday in regard to food distribution and modern food regulation, and an approach to the Lurianic Tu B'Shvat Seder as a way to engage in Tikkun Olam not just in the mystical sense but in doing concrete Tikkun in the material world.
Suggested donation: https://www.landofcanaanfoundation.org
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Intro Music: "Nitsokhn Lid (Victory Song)," performed by Yiddish Glory & remixed by Eli Bertrum.
Outro Music: "Song of the Olive Tree," written by Leon Rosselson & performed by Janet Russell.
Suggested Reading: "Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America And Palestine," by Steven Salaita
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