Blog & News
Facing Single-Use Plastic Threats: From Awareness to Action
Blog: Elisheva Malomet and Deborah Rose - Plastic packaging and bags, drinking bottles and straws, disposable plastic plates, forks, knives and spoons—these are designed and created to be thrown away and...
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Global warming vs climate change: Examining how these terms relate to each other
Blog: Matthew Mausner and Yonatan Neril - Global warming and climate change are two terms that are often used interchangeably, but they actually have distinct meanings.
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Flash Floods and Our World
Blog: Yonatan Neril and Elisheva Malomet - Flash floods can occur in as little as minutes or an hour, but their devastation can last months or decades. Triggered and intensified by...
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Examining Some of the Pros and Cons of Globalization
Blog: Matthew Mausner and Yonatan Neril - Our world has become much “smaller” and more interconnected in just the last generation. The rise and acceleration of globalization has ushered in vast...
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The One Way Ticket Show
Podcast: Episode 230: Rabbi Yonatan Neril’s One Way Ticket is to This Sustainable Future
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Eco Bible: A Must-Have Jewish Ecological Commentary on Genesis and Exodus
News Coverage: Imagine traveling with a group of people on a boat sailing across the beautiful water. But then one of them pulls out a drill and begins boring a hole down...
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How Earth Day Aligns with Jewish Values
News Coverage: My burgeoning love of the environment began during a 1978 Muppets’ television special. It featured Buffalo Springfield singing “For What It’s Worth,” parodying the original song using Muppet animals. The...
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Be Fruitful and Multiply and Fill the Earth: Until When?
Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - I asked the former Anglican Archbishop of Burundi whether God’s statement to the first human beings, to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth,” still...
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When we became the weather
Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - I am fortunate to have survived several flash floods. I ran for my life up a hill in northern India when floodwaters swept through.
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Why I Like To Compost, and Why Noah Did Too
Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - There’s something earthy about seeing my food peelings become soil that connects me to the circular nature of life.
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