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Climate Justice & Environmentalism

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The Anti-Environmental Actions of the Trump Administration

  • March 17, 2025
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Many national, regional and even local efforts within the Jewish community address environmental concerns in a variety of different ways, and all are worthy of support.
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Tikkun Adam(ah): A Jewish Response to a World in Upheaval

  • January 11, 2025
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When we live outside of right relationship with the natural world, we curse ourselves.
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Green Love: Expanding Jewish Empathy to the Planet

  • January 8, 2025
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Nature’s embrace of our fragility is empathic, borne of the Earth’s deep awareness of its own vulnerability.
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‘Maybe it’s Time to Stop Talking About Climate Change’: On Living During a Time of Endings

  • January 7, 2025
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Things we can do as we live in the end of the world as we know it.
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Learning About Humpback Whales: How Assumptions Can Mislead Us

  • November 11, 2024
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Maybe the search to understand sonic expression in other species cannot be learned through a human lens.
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Jumpstarting Hope in Gaza: The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies

  • July 5, 2024
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This initiative will support the establishment of “Green Refugee Shelters” to house thousands of internally displaced Gazans.
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Creating a New Diaspora Judaism

  • July 5, 2024
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Seeking to create an ecologically rooted Judaism that could be life-giving for centuries to come.
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Animal Intelligence: Looking Beyond Chosenness and Speciesism for the Sake of the Planet

  • May 6, 2024
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The sonic world all around us reminds us of the agency of the creatures that are its creators.
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Embracing, Not Choosing: From Humanity to All Species

  • December 3, 2023
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God singles out the human species from among myriads of life forms. The environmental implications are unfortunate.
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Cry the Beauty, Cry the Alarm: How Jews Are Feeling the Climate Crisis

  • October 17, 2023
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The longer I work as a climate-change chaplain, the more I’ve come to believe that it’s not change we hate so much as stepping into the unknown without a map or a guide.
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Read & Rite

One-stop shop for progressive Jewish books and ritual objects

Placement Office

Placement resources for rabbis and congregations

Havaya Summer Programs

Overnight summer camp and teen Israel experience

Reconstructionist Educators of North America

Professional group for people leading schools in Reconstructionist congregations

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Professional association of Reconstructionist rabbis