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Tu B’Shevat is More than Trees — It’s About Our Link in the Chain (Recently Published in the JWeekly)

January 26, 2021 by Tamar Zaken

“…there are times in life when we are not the center, times when we need to step back and give each person ‘their plant,’ a place to be themselves, to share their voice, the space to grow… Stepping back to allow for growth is a major theme of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish birthday of the trees. We plant trees knowing that we might not enjoy their shade or their fruits. It is a selfless act that reminds us that there is more to the world than us.”

– Tamar Zaken
Read More on JWeekly.com

HaMaqom Celebrates Tu B’shvat!

Tamar & her daughter getting ready to celebrate Tu B’shvat
HaMaqom Operations Manager, Jenny Myer, our resident plant mom holding her Wandering Jew plant.
Our Chief Morale Officer, Huxley, and his favorite plant friend.
  • Tamar Zaken, HaMaqom Chief Program Officer, and her daughter get ready to celebrate Tu B’shvat
  • Jenny Myer, HaMaqom Operations Manager, also resident plant mom, holding her new Wandering Jew plant
  • Huxley, Chief Morale Officer (CMO), and his favorite leafy friend
  • Lisa Strauss, Director of Advancement, sharing her photo of when she was in Jerusalem celebrating with human trees on Ben Yehuda street
  • Jenny Circle, Director of Development, checking in on her beautiful herb garden

Tamar Zaken

Tamar Zaken is Chief Program Officer at HaMaqom | The Place. Tamar grew up in Oakland and moved to Israel as a teenager. For many years, Tamar directed service-learning programs at Memizrach Shemesh, the Center for Jewish Social Activism based in Jerusalem. She graduated from the Joint Program at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and received an MSW from Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University in New York. 

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