• Values and Vision
• Support our Work
• The Lotan Park
• Friends of Lotan
• Absorption
• Volunteers

Links to Our Friends and Partners

To facilitate orientation, we've organized links under the following categories:

• REFORM ZIONISM
• ECOLOGY
• STUDY PROGRAMS IN ISRAEL
• JEWISH ECO SITES
• ALTERNATIVE BUILDING
• LEADING JEWISH/ZIONIST ORGANISATIONS
• YOUTH MOVEMENTS
• ISRAELI LINKS COMMUNITY
• SYNAGOGUES, HAVUROT AND JEWISH COMMUNITIES
• TIKUN OLAM
• See also our Creative Ecology Links & Partners' page

Kibbutz Lotan is a community of Reform Zionism

• The Reform Judaism Home Page
• The Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism
• The World Union of Progressive Judaism
• ARZA - Association of Reform Zionist in America
• URJ - The Union of Reform Judaism
• Chavruta - An independent registered Society for spiritual/cultural and social-political reform

Ecology

•  www.storyofstuff.com : a twenty minute video about consumerism and its environmental impact.  We recommend viewing this resource as a precursor to a Sukkot or Tu B'shvat activity on human interaction with our world and each other.
• EcoWave- A leading Israeli eco-portal (Hebrew)
• Israel Ministry for Environment
• Adam, Teva, VaDin - Israel Union for Environmental Defense
• WWOOFing - Willing Workers on Organic Farms
• Centre for Alternative Technology - UK
• Earth Island Institute
• Trees for the Future
• ECHO - A Christian site dedicated to international development. Excellent technical notes.
• Environmental Web Directory
• The Earth Charter

Study Programs In Israel

• MASA - The Gateway to Long Term Israel Programs

Jewish Eco Sites

• Eco jew: A site for environmental activism in the Jewish community of California.
• Jewish/ Israeli environmental links
• Hazon's Jewish Environmental Bike Rides "The Green Pot"
• J.O.T.E: Jews Of The Earth, JOTE is a Jewish ecological organization based in Boulder Colorado
• COEJL: Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life

Alternative Building

• The Last Straw -The International Journal of Straw Bale and Natural Building is written by folks like us who share their experiences and knowledge openly. Subscribe today!
• Permaculture International Limited
• The Green Builder
• Making India Green
• Builders without Borders A wonderful basic strawbale construction manual (also in Spanish)
• The Iron Straw: A site with pictures and a "how to build" manual, technical and basic
• Strawbale Mailing list Archive
• DCAT: Development Center for Appropriate Technology
• The Straw Bale House
• The Canelo Project: Connecting people, culture & nature
• Natural Building Resources
• The Natural Home Building Source
• Earthships
• Earth Community Israel
• Sustainable Architecture, Building and Culture

Leading Jewish/Zionist Organizations

• Jewish National Fund - Caretaker of the land of Israel- develops hundreds of forests, parks and roads, conserves and cleanses the water supply, and educates worldwide about Israel and the enviornment
• Hagshama - Judaism, Zionism and Israel at your fingertips - The Hagshama Department of the World Zionist Organization
• Partnership 2000
• Toronto Jewish Federation our partners in Partnership 2000
• We support open conversion to Judaism. Here's a great Conversion link.
• The Network of Jewish Renewal Communities
• The Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
• Aleph - Renewing Judaism as Judaism Renews Us (the umbrella organization of Jewish Renewal)
• Elat Chayyim - A Center for Healing and Renewal
• simplyjewish.com from Rabbi Rami Shapiro
• Tikkun Magazine
• Rabbi Goldie Milgram
• Jewish Feminist Resources
• Maven,The Ultimate Jewish/Israel Index
• Rabbi Judith Abrams's online Talmud study page
• shamash.org
• Jewish Family & Life - An Online Magazine

Youth Movements

• Netzer Olami - the International Reform Zionist Youth Movement
• NTY-Netzer North American Federation of Temple Youth
• RSY Netzer - England
• Netzer Australia - Website of Netzer Australia - progressive Zionist youth movement of Australia.

Israeli Links

• The Green Window for Youth -
• NegevBa.co.il - Negev Portal
• Negev-net.org - Negev Settlement Info Center
• Chavruta - An independent registered Society for spiritual/cultural and social-political reform
• Create your Bar or Bat Mitzvah in Israel with this excellent guidebook.
• Givat Haviva Institute
• israelimages.com
• Photozion.com online stock library of images on Israel and Jewish life
• Best of Israel
• Machers.com - Jewish and Israeli resources worldwide. News updates, street tours, 6000+ sites, plus... kosher database, Jewish search, humor.
• The Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute
  Your gateway to business in Israel. Succeed in commercial ventures with Israeli companies and in the Israeli marketplace.

Community

• www.gen-europe.org - Kibbutz Lotan is a member of the Global Ecovillage Network and received the 2006 Award for Ecovillage Excellence.
• The Kibbutz Movement
• Kibbutz Tamuz - Beit Shemesh
• The Findhorn Community
• The Foundation for Community Encouragement
• In context - The context Institute's Online Magazine
• Bruderhof Communities
• Cohousing
• Reunite Lost Kibbutz Friends: An amazing free site that reunites long lost travel friends
• International Communes Desk

Synagogues, Havurot, and Jewish Communities

• Shaarei Shamayim, Madison, WI
• Agudas Achim, Attleboro, MA
• Eitz Or - Seattle
• Congregations Shir Shalom in Bradenton, Florida
• Temple Beth El of Flint, MI

Tikun Olam

• The Israel Religious Action Center
• Int'l Fellowship of Christians and Jews

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