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Ups and Downs for a Berliner Environmentalist Jew
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 was privatised almost 20 years ago. A great idea actually since grid ownership comes with guaranteed ...
A Brief Visit To The Israeli Youth Movement
Sunday morning: It is still dark when I dump my bag at the hotel's reception and head out for the beach. The sky turns purple and pink while the waves and the sand dig my feet deep into the ground. It has been so very long! I decide to take a walk to rediscover Tel Aviv. After all it will only be a few hours until the rest of the delegation will arrive. The Yemenite Quarter has been changing. Crazy all this construction work. The ...
Sukkot Reflections
I love autum. A time in between. A time when the inner-city is reclaimed by those who live in it instead of the tourists. The drizzling rain washes the streets preparing the city for a fresh start into the new year. The leaves turn yellow and red reminding the local one last time of the colours of summer. Sometimes a golden sunray that found its way through a thick layer of clouds. It is the time when I feel most at home in Berlin. I love Sukkot ...
Elections And The Dawn Of A New Society
For a few weeks now strangers have been ambushing me with polarising questions and smothering my son with balloons, for a few weeks now my inbox is overflowing. For a few weeks now I cannot get rid of this upset stomach... The symptoms are clear: Elections are coming up. On the 22nd September 2013 Germans are voting for parliament which elects the chancellor. 39 parties are running of which nine have a realistic chance winning seats in the ...
German Jews Go Green
In 2007 I traveled around Europe to train and organise environmental youth groups, network, give lectures and plant a seed of action. One of the biggest events of that year was the bianual convention of the Evangelical Church in Germany. I was invited to co-deliver the sermon with the topic: Climate Change And Everyones Responsibilities To Protect G_d's Creation. Beside this certainly making the top of my list wired things i have done I was ...
