The Jewish Reconstructionist Federation is focusing their “omer education” this year on Sustainability (who isn’t focusing on sustainability these days?)

Their most recent omer teaching focuses on fair trade coffee and the mitzvah of Kan Tzipor, which is based on the text below:

If, along the road, you chance upon a bird’s nest, in any tree or on the ground, with fledglings or eggs and the mother sitting over the fledglings or on the eggs, do not take the mother together with her young. Let the mother go, and take only the young, in order that you may fare well and have a long life. Deuteronomy Ki Tetzei 22:6-7