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Interview with Dr. Håkan Bengtsson
Blog: Siiri Bigalke - Interview with Dr. Håkan Bengtsson about his experience with environmentalism and his respective religion's take on sustainability.
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Interview with the Rev. Dr. Martin Zimmann
Blog: Siiri Bigalke - Interview with the Rev. Dr. Martin Zimmann about his experience with environmentalism and his respective religion's take on sustainability.
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Interview with the Rev. Angela Zimmann
Blog: Siiri Bigalke - Interview with the Rev. Angela Zimmann about her experience with environmentalism and her respective religion's take on sustainability.
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that”
Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril and Elana Frank - “You are with God to the extent that you can recognize God in another person.” – Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein.
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Citizens Declare Cease-Fire at Joint Breaking of Fast
Blog: Elana Frank and Rabbi Yonatan Neril - On Tuesday, July 15th, hundreds of Palestinian Muslims and Israeli Jews united to break their mutual fast day together at thirteen events throughout...
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Pope Francis Fires Up Future Faith Leaders for Creation Care
Press Release: The Pope has taken a stand on climate change with a forceful position paper that spells out how faith groups must take action to protect the environment. The world’s faithful...
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Sewing Seeds, Building Trust, Seeking Peace
Blog: Siiri Bigalke - June marked the third month of a new track in our Women's Faith and Ecology project. This initiative brings together women of Jerusalem to find commonality through...
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Palestinian Muslims and Israeli Jews Unite to Break their Mutual Fast Day Together
Press Release: On Tuesday, July 15th, hundreds of Palestinian Muslims and Israeli Jews united to break their mutual fast day together at thirteen events throughout Israel and the West Bank.
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Methane to Energy, No Plastic Bags, Green Globes
Blog: Elana Frank - On June 17th, four Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development (ICSD) staff and interns attended the Knesset Environmental Day put on in the Israeli Parliament (Knesset). We were...
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Meeting the ‘Green Patriarch’ in Jerusalem
Blog: We are waiting for that moment when our consultations, dialogues, and steps toward unity become expressions of truepeace [...]
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Wake-up Call: Jerusalem Water Contamination
Blog: Jerusalem’s ancient roots certainly had a spiritual context, but were also tied to access to some of the region’s most precious resource: water. [...]
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Gathering and Gardening over Watermelon and Zatar
Blog: On Wednesday April 30th, a group of women from Muslim, Jewish, and Christian members of the larger Jerusalem community met for a day of gardening, conversation, [...]
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