Tikkun Leil Shavu’ot from the Point of View of the Earth
By Anonymous | 10/13/2009
Yitro
Global Scorching
Shavuot
Developed by Rain Zohav
[Zohav is a rabbinical student in the ALEPH smikha program. This plan for Shavuot was developed for the course in Eco-Judaism taught hy Rabbi Arthur Waskow in 2009.]
Idea: Use the attached document, “Ten Commandments From the Earth” as a starting point for discussing what people can do to protect and defend the environment.
Since it is often easier to ...
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For Shabbat Noach: A Prayer for Creation
By Marc Gave | 10/15/2009
Noah
Earth
Global Scorching
The Book of Genesis
Prayer
Rabbi David Seidenberg has provided us with a prayer focused on global climate disruption (aka “global warming”), healing the skies, and the original blessing of creation. Rabbi Seidenberg writes, “The liturgy is partly based on P’ri Eitz Hadar (the first published Tu Bish’vat seder), and on the Sefardi liturgy for Sukkot. It can be used after Torah reading every Shabbat, alongside prayers for the government, ...
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Seven reasons for optimism about the Senate climate bill
By Anonymous | 10/18/2009
Noah
Climate policy
By David Roberts
Grist, 12 OCT 2009
Conventional wisdom says that the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill faces a long uphill slog in the Senate against unlikely odds. BUT – in politics, small changes can build beneath the surface of the news cycle and emerge unexpectedly as a rapid shift. There are seven reasons for cautious optimism.
1. Key Republican support is already in place, as Sen. Lindsey Graham takes to The ...
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Write Your Senators: Support the Climate-Healing Bill
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 10/20/2009
Climate policy
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Dear shalom-seekers,
We are at a great choice point for healing the planetary climate crisis — the most dangerous crisis in all human history, but one we can still heal.
Before I expain why and how, let me say right away that we have made it possible and easy for you to write your Senators to support climate-healing action. Click here to write your ...
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Noah & "Dominion" over the Earth
By Anonymous | 10/22/2009
Noah
Global Scorching
Ellen Bernstein
This coming Shabbat, October 24, 2009, hundreds of thousands of people in 158 countries around the globe will be participating in the International Day of Climate Action. They will try to convince world leaders to craft policies to help bring atmospheric concentrations of CO2 down to 350 parts per million—the figure that scientists say is the safe upper limit for CO2 in the atmosphere, the amount that will ...
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Climate Healing Shabbat in Washington DC
By Anonymous | 10/22/2009
Noah
Global Scorching
Jews United for Justice and Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light are inviting all synagogues, temples, minyanim, and havurot in the DC area to mark October 24 as Climate Healing Shabbat.
In our Jewish communities, we will be reading Parshat Noah that day, considering the Torah’s promise to withhold future floods and to preserve creation. Our Climate Healing Shabbat gatherings will join thousands of other “350.org&r...
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Philadelphia Jewish Exponent: Preventing a New World Flood, Sustaining the Web of Life
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 10/22/2009
Noah
Global Scorching
Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, October 15, 2009
An old Southern black song cries out: “God gave Noah the rainbow sign; No more water, the fire next time.” Long before that, the ancient rabbis spoke of a mabul eysh — a “flood of fire.” In their days, they were fantasies. But in our generation, the flood of fire has come upon us in the form of global ...
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Climate Policy: 7 Principles & a Yardstick rooted in Biblical & Jewish Wisdom
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 10/30/2009
Noah
Climate policy
Global Scorching
Hanukkah
As US governmental bodies like the Senate and the world’s governments in bodies like the mid-December UNClimate Conference in Copenhagen falter and delay, it becomes ever clearer:
The governments will take vigorous action only if the grass-roots public insists on serious change. We encourage you to take action rooted in the ...
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Interfaith Work on Climate Crisis at Muslim-Initiated Vienna Meeting, 2009
By Editor | 11/2/2009
Global Scorching
Interreligious Relations
Rabbis Phyllis Berman & Arthur Waskow
July, 2009
Dear friends,
The two of us thought you would be interested
in efforts to address the climate crisis that arose during meetings in Vienna last week,
of the Follow-up Committee for the Madrid World Interfaith Dialogue
held a year ago. Both meetings were sponsored by the Muslim World League
and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, ...
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Hanukkah for Humanity: 1 Day's Oil for 8 Days' Need
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 11/17/2009
Festivals, Life-cycle, & Climate crisis
Hanukkah
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Hanukkah: Festival of light in a dark time, action in times of despair. Rededication, reconsecration, in times of desecration and disaster. The Green Menorah: A living, growing Tree Of Light in the ancient Temple, in the sacred temple of the Earth today, and in the hearts of those who join in covenant to heal ...
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Dear Earth, happy Hanukkah! -- 8 days, 8 actions
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 12/7/2009
Festivals, Life-cycle, & Climate crisis
Hanukkah
After lighting your menorah each evening, dedicate yourself to healing our climate:
Day 1 (this year, Shabbat). Automobile: If possible, choose today or one other day a week to not use your car at all. Other days, lessen driving. Shop on-line. Cluster errands. Carpool. Don’t idle engine beyond 20 seconds.
Day 2 (Saturday night & Sunday): International: That evening (or if ...
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Rainbow, Oil Slicks, & Sabbatical Year: A tale of two covenants -- broken
By Editor | 5/5/2010
Noah
Behar
Global Scorching
By Rabbi David Seidenberg See his Website at http://www.neohasid.org/
Monday, May 10, 2010, is also the 27th of Iyyar—the date when
Noah’s family and the animals left the ark and received the rainbow
covenant.
There is a special correlation between this week’s Torah portion and
the rainbow covenant of Noah’s time. And there is a foreboding
contrast ...
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Observing Tisha B'Av as a Prayerful Political Act
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 5/14/2010
Devoting Jewish Holidays to Peace
Global Scorching
Tisha B'Av
What specifics could we imagine for observing Tisha B’Av in such a way as to grow political energy toward preventing climate disaster?
The basic rubric would be to see the Earth today as a Holy Temple in danger of destruction, as the Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed.
The Shalom Center is now developing a liturgy for Tisha B’Av that would ...
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Burnt Offering: Tisha B'av. Chapter 12, "Seasons of our Joy"
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 9/8/2001
Global Scorching
Tisha B'Av
War, Peace, & the Jewish Community
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
From SEASONS OF OUR JOY
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Copyright © 1980 by Arthur Waskow.
Published by Beacon Press.
[return to Tisha B'av Section]
The rhythm of the seasons as a spiritual path and the spiritual history and meaning of each festival are described in the chapters of this book.
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Haftarah Noah: Rainbow Covenant
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 9/8/2001
Noah
Earth
Festivals, Life-cycle, & Climate crisis
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Haftarah for the Rainbow Covenant
[Blessed are You, the Breath of Life, Who makes of every human throat a shofar for the breathing of Your truth.]
You, My people, burnt in fire,
still staring blinded
by the flame and smoke
that rose from Auschwitz and from Hiroshima;
You, My people,
Battered by the earthquakes
of a planet in convulsion;
You, ...
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Taanit Tzibbur: Communal Fast in Time of Calamity: drought, famine, war, etc
By Editor | 10/22/2002
17 Tammuz
Devoting Jewish Holidays to Peace
Festivals, Life-cycle, & Climate crisis
Fasting for Peace and Justice
War, Peace, & the Jewish Community
Fasting for Peace and Justice: October 30, 2002 25 Mar-Cheshvan 5763
By Lee Moore (as of June 2010, Rabbi) & Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Long ago, Jews chose when they were facing the calamities of drought, or plague, or ...
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New Haftarah for the Rainbow Covenant: Hebrew & English text
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 9/19/2003
Noah
Earth
Festivals, Life-cycle, & Climate crisis
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, 9/19/2003
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New Interfaith Freedom Seder for the Earth: Text of an Earth-Haggadah
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 2/3/2009
Festivals, Life-cycle, & Climate crisis
Global Scorching
Justice & immigration
Pesach
Environmental Justice
Globalization and Economic Justice
Interreligious Relations
Justice and Gender
SEDER FOR THE EARTH: Facing the Plagues & Pharaohs of Our Generation
The Shalom Center has created the text and the organizing mechanisms for ...
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From Hanukkah to Copenhagen: A Broad-Based Jewish Call to Action
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 12/2/2009
Devoting Jewish Holidays to Peace
Global Scorching
Hanukkah
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Dear folks,
At the initiative of The Shalom Center, a broad spectrum of American Jewish leadership has issued the following statement about Hanukkah and Copenhagen:
“Hanukkah for Humanity”
The traditions of rabbinic Judaism have long celebrated the Hanukkah miracle in ...
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