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Join Akiva Gersh for an exciting online celebration of Tu B'Shvat, the Jewish New Year's Day for the Trees. Understand how it transformed from a regular "tax day" in ancient Israel to a deeply spiritual and festive holiday in modern-day times. We will eat fruit together, learn about the trees of Israel together, explore spiritual eating together and celebrate together!
Price: Donation of ANY amount
(Really...any amount.)
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ABOUT AKIVA GERSH, @ISRAEL FOUNDER AND EDUCATOR
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Akiva Gersh has been working in the field of Jewish and Israel Education since 2000. From 2007-2020, he taught Jewish History and Modern Israel at the Alexander Muss High School in Israel, where he guided visiting students through the story of the Jewish people, in the classroom as well as through excursions to historical, cultural, religious, and ecological sites around the country.
In 2020 he took his teaching online and created @Israel, offering both pre-recorded and live israel-related classes, courses and virtual tours.
akiva is a contributing blogger at the Times of Israel and published his first book "becoming Israeli" in 2017 about the experiernce of making aliyah and acclimating to life in israel .
Akiva holds a BA in Religious Studies from Brown University and an MA in Jewish Education from Yeshiva University. He and his wife live in Pardes Hanna, Israel with their four children.
