To all the Hebrew-speaking foodies out there - here’s a challenge for you.  Hazon is working with Jewish day schools in New York to create Min Ha’Aretz (“from the land”) – a family education program.  In short, Min Ha’Aretz uses food and Jewish learning as focal points to create an innovative curriculum for day school students, a related beit-midrash (learning group) for their parents, and all-school activities (farm trips, cooking demos, nutrition classes etc.) where kids and parents have the opportunity to learn together.  The program aims to strengthen intra-family conversations about eating, Jewish tradition, and the world around us.

Here’s where you come in.  Our first partner schools have successfully launched Min Ha’Aretz - meanwhile, we’re always striving to improve the curriculum.  Since most day schools encourage their students to be bi-lingual, we are in the process of translating the curriculum’s lesson titles into Hebrew.  The thing is, we’re kinda stumped on a couple of them.

The question: how do you translate ”whole foods” (the concept, not the health food chain-store!) and “food miles” into Hebrew in a way that does justice to their nuanced meanings, while still making sense?  Any brilliant suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Find out more about Hazon’s Min Ha’Aretz day school curriculum here.