
Handmaker Jewish Services for the Aging recently celebrated Tu B’Shevat, known as the New Year for the Trees, with representatives of three local synagogues. Rabbi Batsheva Appel of Temple Emanu-El led a talk about the holiday on Friday, Jan. 18; Rabbi Stephanie Aaron of Congregation Chaverim led a Tu B’Shevat seder on Monday, Jan. 21; and fifth-grade students from Congregation Or Chadash visited on Sunday, Jan. 27 to paint flowerpots and plant seeds.