Over the years, Everett Gendler has inspired many people to celebrate holidays in unique and special ways. He does it again with his new take on the traditional Chanukah menorah, as he describes below. Please let us know if you try this and feel free to send pictures!   Chanukah lends itself to many emphases, [...]

Camp Shemesh, a summer day camp of the Jewish Community of Amherst (JCA), used their Gendler Grapevine Project grant to expand the JCA’s garden and hire a garden specialist and a stewardship coordinator to assist the camp in developing its environmental programming. Camp Shemesh hired a gan specialist for the summer to run programs and [...]

URJ Camp Coleman, located in Cleveland, GA, has always been committed to being good stewards of the environment, but this past summer they decided to devote a Shabbat each session to looking at what building a sustainable future means by creating a Sustainability Shabbat program. The project was incredibly successful. The campers internalized the concept [...]

The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center used their Gendler Grapevine Project grant to create the Cycles of Seven Garden in the middle of their 400-acre campus in the Berkshires. The seven raised beds, made of cedar reclaimed from an old water tower, connect guests to Judaism and growing food. Every element in the garden teaches [...]