Environmental Activism: Good For The Jews?
by Kara A. Kaufman
As we feel the heat this summer--the unpleasant, sweaty results of global warming-- we wondered: How are Jewish o...
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.