Past, Present, and Future
by Thea Iberall, PhD
~I'm at a shoreline retreat rocking on the dining hall porch. I'm thinking about how vulnerable everything is: people, the land, nature. I'm thinking about my own fragility. Flags above me are flapping in the breeze, a precursor to the remnants of the hurricane that will be hitting us tomorrow. I'm scrolling through the news on my phone: a white politician wanting to win an election, a famous black man complaining about biased treatment by an airline crew. The ocean has a steady presence, like a heater in the ...
Because climate threats are increasingly apparent, Jewish Vegan Life (JVL) has started a unique, potentially game-changing initiative to reduce them, called “Shofar for Change.” It involves a Zoom event featuring the blowing of the shofar at the Kotel on September 29, 11 AM US Eastern time (6 PM Israel time), followed by several talks on the seriousness of climate threats and how it can be prevented. JVL hopes the shofar blasts will awaken people to the following realities.
The world is rapidly approaching a climate catastrophe.
Significant ...
Because climate threats are increasingly apparent, Jewish Vegan Life (JVL) has started a unique, potentially game-changing initiative to reduce them, called “Shofar for Change.” It involves a Zoom event featuring the blowing of the shofar at the Kotel on September 29, 11 AM US Eastern time (6 PM Israel time), followed by several talks on the seriousness of climate threats and how it can be prevented. JVL hopes the shofar blasts will awaken people to the following realities.
The world is rapidly approaching a climate catastrophe.
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