by Rabbi Katy Z. Allen This week's Torah portion is Miketz — we are smack dab in the middle of the Joseph story, a sure sign that Hanukkah will soon begin, as we always read this portion during Hanukkah. In addition, this week's Shabbat candle-lighting time is almost as early

This month I hit my lowest low. On of the leading Berlin newspaper's headline commented on my mood: "Berlin's Environmentalists Between Despair And Defiance". This month referendum about the ownership of the city's electric grid was rejected. The idea was to force the city's government to re-buy the grid that

One of the core environmental principles of Judaism is that of baal tashchit. Simply put, this means that we must not waste resources. Keeping this principle in mind, this month’s blog focuses on an area of huge waste in our society: plastic use. Over 300 million tons of plastic are