NY Jewish Environmental Bike Ride

Labor Day weekend, September 1 – 4.
Hazon’s Sixth annual New York Jewish Environmental Bike Ride.
Registration $175.

Join us for the 6th New York Jewish Environmental Bike Ride to raise money for cutting-edge Jewish environmental education, in the US and in Israel. The ride includes an amazing two-day Shabbat Retreat at the beautiful Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, CT and two-day, 125 mile bike ride.

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