Jewish Climate Initiative in the New York Times Magazine

We were proud to be featured in the special Green Issue of the Magazine that came out on April 20th. The whole issue is worth looking at as a survey of cutting edge stuff going on in the field of climate change. (See link at the bottom.) Here’s the piece:
For years, Rabbi Julian Sinclair led [...]

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Between the Fires

By David Seidenberg, in honor of Lag Ba’Omer- adapted from Rabbi Arthur Waskow’s Tisha B’av liturgy. According to one interpretation, the flood brought upon by Noah’s generation began today, the 17th of Iyyar, the day before Lag Ba’Omer.
Between the Fires
On this day, the 17th of Iyyar, the day when the Flood began,
this day when we [...]

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Don’t Fall into the Doomsday Trap

By Yannai Kranzler
Environmental sensitivity has a trap: Actions too often become a “Fight Against.” I stop acting “in order to”, but rather, “to beware of”- whether that “Beware of” is carbon emissions, pollution, pesticides or the like.
Not that caution is a bad place from where to act- crises like climate change give us the urgency [...]

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