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Question of the Week #6
Rabbi Shawn Zevit, Director of Congregational Services, Outreach and Tikkun Olam at the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, asks Jewcology's 6th Question of the Week.
Environment Art Contest
BabagaNewz.com is teaming up with Jewcology.com to spread the word about Jewish environmentalism.
Teach your students what Judaism has to say about preserving our environment using the lesson plan provided, then have students create artwork—print or multimedia—based on a relevant Jewish text of their choice. (See www.babaganewz.com/envirocontest for a list of appropriate Jewish texts.)
Your students could:
· See their artwork featured on BabagaNewz.com
· Receive a water-powered alarm clock if they’re one of ...
Environmental Tip of the Week
http://environmentaltip.blogspot.com/
I just started this blog. When I headed the Environmental Club at Stern, I sent such tips by email weekly. Feel free to copy and use what I have here for personal or educational purposes, just please give me proper credit.
How to Organize a Successful Tu b’Shevat Seder
Tu b'Shevat is coming! This year it falls on January 19-20. In my role as executive director of Canfei Nesharim: Sustainable Living Inspired by Torah, I've been organizing and hosting Tu b'Shevat seders all around the world over the last ten years, including interesting model seders at different times and places: in August in Vermont (CAJE), for example, and in December in California (Hazon Food Conference).
The Tu b'Shevat Seder is a fun experience for children and adults, and can be adapted to different timeframes and levels of Jewish/environ...
Post 01: Building a Movement from the Ground Up
This post is part of an ongoing discussion about involving young people in environmental activities.
This first post in the Building a Movement (BAM) series focuses on choices young people have when they graduate from high school.
Teenage Angst
I had a radio show that I co-hosted for several years called the Jewish Activist Network. One of the topics we kept revisting was the issue of so-called "Yeshiva Drop-Outs".
"Yeshiva Drop-Outs" are teenagers who come from observant families and are attending, or had attended, ...
Support Jewcology at Year-End!
We've gotten a great start this year with Jewcology. But there is much more to do! Will you help us make 2011 a banner year by making a tax-deductible donation of $10, $18, or $36 to support our upcoming efforts? Funds will be used for enhanced technology, additional programs, and promotion. Thanks for your support!
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Check out the Adva Network Job Board
The Adva Network hosts a Job Board to help facilitate the placement of alumni in jobs around the world. Check out what’s available:
Are any of your organizations hiring?
My resume is posted here and also attached as a Word file. I'm here so obviously I'm interested in Judaism and the environment. I founded and ran programming for an Environmental Club at Stern College. Feel free to ask Evonne Marzouk about me, as she helped me out immensely!
Attention recent college grads!
I saw this while job searching today and will apply myself once I finish my cover letter. If you're passionate about the environment and eager to make a concrete impact, this might be the opportunity of a lifetime! http://www.environmentamerica.org/jobs/available-positions/fellowship-program
Chochma & Bina, Wisdom & Understanding
This week my wife and I are on Hornby Island, on the coast of beautiful British Columbia. It’s here, on the edge of the Pacific Ocean that I feel most in awe of the natural world and all its creatures.
A walk on the beach is a lesson in nature’s complexity. Whitecaps give way to waves churning onto the shore, where winter storms have deposited a year’s worth of driftwood and sea weed. Seals and sea lions maintain an ongoing truce as they patrol their respective aquatic territories for fish, and eagles soar and dive against a ever-changing ...
Planning for Tu B’Shvat & reflections on a few Jewish plants
You might not expect it, but winter is a busy time for Jewish environmental educators like myself. While the garden rests frozen under a blanket of fresh Chicago snow, Tu B'Shvat is right around the corner. This holiday, which celebrates the New Year of the trees, is perhaps the most natural holiday to think about Jewish values of environmental preservation and appreciation. As in years past, my 6th grade students will be leading the rest of the religious school in the Tu B'Shvat seder. There's a lot they will need to learn to get ready, I'm hope ...
Question of the Week #5
Joanna Katz of the Teva Learning Center asks Jewcology's Question of the Week.
What will you answer?
Eden Village Camp slideshow!
Click here to view! http://animoto.com/play/y346I2ced8hscmBve2vTpQ
Sharing God’s Green Earth: Planting a Green World by Engaging the Greater Community
NEW YORK (Dec. 23, 2010) — On the eve of the eve of the most widely celebrated Jewish baby’s birthday ever, a holy day for billions of Christians around the world, it’s important to remember that we Jews only make up about two tenths of one percent of the world’s population. So if we’re going to green the world, we can’t do it alone. We need to engage with our brothers and sisters of all faiths.
In Israel, that means that we need to work with Christians and Muslims, both within Israel and in Israel’s neighboring lands as ...
Parshat Ekev: Who Blocked the Sky?
http://jewschool.com/2010/07/29/23741/who-blocked-the-sky/
Introducing Teva Ivri
Hi all,
We're very happy to join Jewcology :)
Who are we?
Teva Ivri - Jewish Nature is an NGO based in the Galilee (northern part of Israel). We're dedicated to create Jewish environmental responsibility, and to significantly join social values rooted in Jewish tradition with environmental values.
What we do?
We work within formal and informal education to promote social-environmental activism based on Jewish tradition
We maintain an easily accessible online resource center in the field of Judaism and ...
Question of the Week #4
Evonne Marzouk asks Jewcology's fourth "question of the week."
Getting Back to My Roots
Despair
Like so many of the people I know who are deeply concerned with the rapidly multiplying environmental issues confronting our world, I recently became discouraged by the inability of our government to take meaningful action. This feeling slowly morphed into disgust, which turned into anger, which then changed into fear. I kept thinking, if our leaders cannot even address the big environmental issues that are occasionally covered by the media, such as climate change and alternative energy, then we are in real trouble when it comes to the hundreds of other ...
the Good, the Bad and the Dirty — Gardens as Outdoor Jewish Classrooms
Gardens can provide amazing settings for Jewish environmental education to take place. However, gardens can also present challenges and difficulties that typical "indoor" classrooms do not pose. This article will examine some of my experiences using gardens as a vehicle for teaching Jewish environmental lessons. It is my hope that others can learn from my experiences and adapt their teaching approach according to their own individual needs.
First, a bit about me and my background. In the fall of 2003, I was hired as the first Adamah coordinator, a ...
Overcoming Email Addiction and Other Virtual Obligations
It seems funny for me to write about this, given my leadership role in Jewcology. And I still believe in the power of social media. But I am writing here to acknowledge: I'm addicted to email.
Here's how a typical day looks. I wake up in the morning; I pull out my smartphone. I'm checking (sometimes responding to) email before getting out of bed. (The benefit of this is that I don't go back to sleep... because the stress of my day takes hold.) I get dressed; I take a look at my email. I'm eating breakfast and checking facebook. I'm on ...
