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My Jewish Learning
Countering Destruction: Lessons from Noah
Today, perhaps the greatest risk of humans destroying the world comes not from those with the intent but from the collective, unintentional actions of billions.
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Jewish News Service
At Hanukkah, Israel’s colors are blue, white… and green
The colors on Israel’s flag may be blue and white, but the Jewish state has gone green. On Dec. 7, the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City held solar lights as members of multiple faiths gathered for global action on climate change.
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Israel21c
Faith leaders join hands to protect the planet
Despite simmering tensions in Jerusalem, Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy and seminary students convened in the city recently around a shared vision of environmental stewardship at the Faith and Ecology Conference, each of them pledging a renewed commitment to integrating environmental education into faith-based teachings.
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ynet News.com
Saving the planet through religious cooperation
As religion is being used around the Middle East to advocate murder, a group of clergy in Jerusalem say they want to use religion as a means of shared environmental activity. "In Islam, the earth is the place that God chose to that people can use it for worship," Imam Wisam Barhum, from the village of Ein Rafa near Jerusalem, told The Media Line. "We must preserve this place and keep it the way God created it so man can worship God."