Oil, War & the Military
To read this article, please visit the The Shalom Center's website at http://www.theshalomcenter.org/node/1401.
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American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot
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Toward a World-wide Jewish Climate Change Campaign
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Sex, Lies and Oil Spills
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The idea is to take a laptop connected to a projector, and go around to local schools and introduce students directly to environmental issues and in particular to jewcology.com
Students today are inundated with information from TV, radio, the Internet, text messaging, schools and family. In my experience, the only way to break through the overload is to literally chase down students and learn with them.
I have a projector; I can probably borrow a laptop.
I need other people to join in me in contacting the schools, and making the presentations.
Even if ...
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The Arava Institute is the premier environmental teaching and research program in the Middle East, preparing future Arab and Jewish leaders to cooperatively solve the region's environmental challenges. Come study on the undergraduate or graduate levels with students from the Middle East and around the world. For more information go to: www.arava.org
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Find the hidden message in the Eco Campus Tu Bishvat movie and win an exclusive Eco Campus Hoodie! Send entries to the email in the movie by January 21, 2011 to enter the raffle.
Visit the Eco Campus at http://ecocamp.us
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Resource Sheet for Environment Art Contest
These resources from Jewcology users may be appropriate for the Environment Art Contest currently being run by Babaganewz, in partnership with Jewcology.
Animals:
Tzaar Baalei Chaim Activity
How Am I Like the Animals and Plants
Parshat Ki Tietze: The Compassion to Bring Mashiach
Green Spaces:
Pokeiakh-Ivrim (To See With New Eyes)
Grapes, Goats and Sustainability
Meet a Tree
Shema Sound Maps - Hearing Godliness in the World
General Paradigm:
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What does the Torah say about the environment and Tu b'Shevat? Explore our collection of articles, stories, and Torah study materials.
New Torah Study Materials for 5771
Trees, Torah, and Caring for the Earth
by Dr. Akiva Wolff and Rabbi Yonatan Neril
That the New Year of the Tree has come to be associated with sensitivity to and appreciation of the natural environment is not by chance. Many Jewish sources connect trees with our proper stewardship of the earth. Understanding these teachings on Tu ...
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Canfei Nesharim's Tu b'Shevat Programs
Planning a Tu b'Shevat Seder?
How to Run a Seder:
Tips and Instructions
Haggadot:
For download or order
Enhance your seder:
with Study Guides, Stories
and Speaker Notes
Audio Podcast:
Trees in Jewish Thought
(WAV file, 4:31)
Video Teaching:
Trees in Jewish Thought (4:37)
Experiencing Trees:
Suggested Activities (PDF, 3 pages)
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Jewcology's Featured Tu b’Shevat Materials
Check out these great materials for Tu b'Shevat!
Canfei Nesharim
How to Organize a Successful Tu b'Shevat Seder
Program Ideas for Tu b'Shevat
Study Packet: Trees, Torah, and Caring for the Earth
Hazon
Hazon's 2011 Tu B'Shvat Resources
Hazon Tu Bishvat Seder Manual
Tu B'shvat Seder Haggadah - Hazon’s 2010 Seder and Sourcebook
My Jewish Learning
New crafts for celebrating the birthday of the trees
Noam Dolgin
Apples ...
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Natural gas finds in Israel stirs a public discussion on gas royalties. With this public debate in mind, Teva Ivri's lesson plan for Tu Bi'shvat offers resources for a discussion on natural resources and environmental responsibility
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In Wintry times, nurture life!
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 1/7/2011
Festivals, Life-cycle, & Climate crisis
Interreligious Relations
Tu B'Shvat
The new Congress convened this week. If you are worried over its impact on continuation of mass disemployment, on massive home foreclosures, on making Muslims and Hispanics into pariahs, on the newly enacted health-care system, on the swollen military budget and the possibility of bringing home our young men and women from the endless, self-destructive war in Afghan...
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Voting Our Values: Nonpartisan Guide to Election Issues
Global Scorching
Justice & immigration
Civil Liberties & Human Rights
Iraq-US War
Environmental Justice
Israeli-Palestinian Collision
Globalization and Economic Justice
War, Peace, & the Jewish Community
VOTING OUR VALUES
Judaism & American Life
“To be is to stand for.”
—Abraham Joshua Heschel
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION:
A JEWISH CALL FOR JUSTICE
Jud...
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Blessing of the Sun: Looking Forward: April 8, 2009
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 6/25/2008
Earth
Global Scorching
Blessing of the Sun
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Early in the morning of April 8, 2009, Jewish communities (and whoever wants to join them) will have a teaching opportunity that comes only once every 28 years: the festival of Birkat HaChamah, the Blessing of the Sun.
In ancient rabbinic tradition, it commemorates the moment when God created the sun in the first place. In modern practice, it fits well ...
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Burma, Big Oil, Burning earth & Bush
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 10/3/2007
Earth
Global Scorching
Dear Friends,
Petitions to the Myanmar/ Burma military government are sweeping the Internet - and will make no difference whatsoever. But there IS a way to make a difference: letters to the US government.
The US press has focused on how China’s and India’s involvements make pressuring Myanmar’s govt difficult. But how much have you seen about the involvement of Chevron, a US oil company that bought Unocal ...
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Blessing the Sun, April 8, 2009
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 7/30/2007
Earth
Global Scorching
Blessing of the Sun
On April 8, 2009, the 28-year cycle of the Jewish ceremony of Blessing the Sun will come ‘round again. Below you will find the essay on the celebration on April 8, 1981, of this extraordinary event — one of the least-known but most joyful of Jewish ceremonies — from my book SEASONS OF OUR JOY (Beacon Press). Let us begin to plan for 2009. — Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Today [April 8, ...
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Brief video: Facing the Pharaohs of Global Scorching
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 12/17/2008
Festivals, Life-cycle, & Climate crisis
Global Scorching
Environmental Justice
Globalization and Economic Justice
Interreligious Relations
My life-partner Rabbi Phyllis Berman and I spent a week in Sweden at the Interfaith Summit on the Climate Crisis.
Watch the live 5-minute video of my "words of hope" for the thousand people who filled the Uppsala Cathedral, intertwin...
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Hanukkah for Humanity
Festivals, Life-cycle, & Climate crisis
Global Scorching
Seasons of our Joy: Festivals and Lifecycles
Hanukkah
A 7-minute face-to-face talk with Rabbi Arthur Waskow about the Green Menorah and celebrating Hanukkah in a way that will bring light to the earth and the human race.
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