The ninth topic in the Year of Jewish Learning on the Environment, Passing the Test of Wealth: A Challenge for Our Time, has just been released!
The challenge that wealth-driven over-consumption poses is of both a spiritual and physical nature. The spiritual challenge is to overcome wealth's pull towards self-gratification and a sense of entitlement, or be overcome by it. The physical challenge manifests in environmental problems like species loss and pollution.
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Canoe through the wilderness of Vermont's Green Mountains with the Green Zionist Alliance!
When: Sept. 7 — 9, 2012
Where: The Green Mountains of southern Vermont, just ~3½ hours drive from New York or Boston
Join us as we revel in the beauty of early fall in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont. Enjoy a Shabbat outdoors with warm days and cool nights. Learn about environmental challenges facing Israel as well as Jewish perspectives on global environmental issues. We will paddle to a secluded campsite on a mountain lake where we ...
Fifteen years ago four Australian athletes died when the bridge they were crossing collapsed over the Yarkon River in Israel. But only one of them died from the fall. The other three were killed by something more unexpected: The river's pollution.
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