03 Oct
Health & Science Zoominars, Holidays Zoominars, Jewish Learning Zoominars, Latest, Zoominar Library, Zoominars

Ecological Judaism with Ellen Bernstein, Natan Margalit and Noah Phillips

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Join Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, founder of the first national Jewish environmental organization Shomrei Adamah, and author of the forthcoming book Toward a Holy Ecology: Reading the Song of Songs in the Age of Climate Crisis and Rabbi Natan Margalit, founder of Organic Torah, and author of The Pearl and the Flame: A Journey into Jewish Wisdom and Ecological Thinking for a conversation about “eco-theology” and the radical new ways Jewish leaders are using ancient teachings of Judaism to address today’s environmental and social problems.
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Arielle Korman and Anat Hochberg
24 Jul
Culture, Featured, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Jewish Music, Jewish World, Latest

Sing to Survive: New Jewish Songbook Combats Climate Crisis

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This May, climate action organization Dayenu released “Rising Tides, Rising Voices: Songs for the Jewish Climate Movement,” a digital songbook, which brings together a diverse set of songs—Jewish and secular, English and Hebrew, chanted and sung—for Jewish climate activism.
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Yossi Leshem
17 Jul
2011 July-August, Israel, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Meet the Birdman

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Yossi Leshem—the world-renowned ornithologist and champion of Israel’s environmental movement—resembles a cross between a linebacker and an academic. Frameless glasses perched precariously on his nose, he speeds through Jerusalem’s narrow streets, simultaneously leaning down to fumble for a pamphlet about owls, answering his cell phone and informing me that it is too cloudy to bird-watch.
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