Shavuot

Celebrate the Harvest Festival by thinking about the world’s plants, flowers, and foliage!

~Thinking Outside the Gift Box~

• Sponsor organic or fair trade flower bouquets for your synagogue and additionally plant a tree in Israel or the U.S. in your synagogue’s honor.
• Plant one in your synagogue's yard!
• Buy a pass to a national park or botanic garden and give it to your guests or your hosts!
• Buy carbon offsets in your synagogue’s name!

~Material Gifts Rethought~

When the occasion calls for a gift you can hold, our material suggestions are sustainably bold!

• When cooking your favorite dairy dishes, try using local and/or organic products! (to find a Community Supported Agriculture-CSA- near you, visit Local Harvest and Tuv Ha’artetz at Hazon!)
• Bring your host an organic bouquet, free trade bouquet or flowers from a local garden!
• Bring Kosher Organic Wine and/or Kosher Organic Chocolate!
• See our alternative gift wrap ideas for food packaging suggestions!