{"id":315,"date":"2014-01-10T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/01\/new-year-for-trees-tu-bshevat.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T15:37:11","slug":"new-year-for-trees-tu-bshevat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/01\/new-year-for-trees-tu-bshevat.html","title":{"rendered":"New Year for Trees: Tu B&#8217;Shevat"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365152153\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\nDo you know which Jewish holiday is known as the New Year for Trees?\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s called Tu B\u2019Shevat and occurs on the 15th day of the Hebrew month Shevat. \u00a0Tu is the number 15 and Shevat is the 11th month in the Hebrew calendar, which is January\/February, according to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewfaq.org\/holiday8.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Judaism 101<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The holiday is more popular today because of it\u2019s connection to the environment as the video above from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/01\/10\/january-10-2014-tu-bshevat\/21576\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">PBS Religion &amp; Ethics<\/a> shows. 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