Marilena Bekierz Performs at the Interfaith Eco Poetry Slam
For more from the Interfaith Eco Poetry Slam, please see this video of Noga Ben Ami’s performance at Tmol Shilshom, organizer of the Interfaith Eco Poetry Slam Event and first time performer Marilena shows how deeply routed faith and ecology issues are, even in modern Pop culture. Check out the lyrics here: I’m burning through the sky Two hundred degrees, that’s why they call me Mrs. Fahrenheit. This airplanes footprint doesn’t seem so light, but no worries, just look at all the lights in Tokyo and Berlin at night So, don’t stop me now, I’m having such a good time! Wise men say only fools rush in, but I can’t help falling in love with Things that are new, that are shiny, that are blue That might make me more attractive to someone- maybe to you?! If you’re lost you can look and you will find me At the restaurant…
Nadav Slovin Performs at the Interfaith Eco Poetry Slam
For more from this event, please see this video of Eitan Press’ spoken poetry: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8sJSIDeoBo At the Interfaith Eco Poetry Slam in Jerusalem, Nadav Slovin talks about the interconnectedness between humans and the earth. The only way to save the environment is for our society to see animals and our planet as equal. From his original poem: But tonight may I request please a bit-different sound. The one which reveals that day without bound Heard in ears of owls from calm latent bowels of clustered crouched tree-trunks perched in deep fear whispering forth their prayer Gd Please bring the sun Gd Please Please Gd Won’t you please bring the sun It is the cry that I seek from the hearts of the wicked From the blamed and the shamed and the mamed turned insipid Through our cry, truth overflows In dependence and need our unity glows So play me a…
Michael Dekel Performs at the Interfaith Eco Poetry Slam
For more from this event, please see Sine Grubert’s performance! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBGcKQ8_KOk At Tmol Shilshom, Michael Deckel discusses the human relationship with God and how we want a connection but cannot have one without striving to create meaning in the world. From his original poem “Somewhere, a whirring fan”: And I never existed because I don’t stop dreaming. Poetry, like a god, provides code for an image, keying it to suggest a revelation-lode from your past. You want it to be my past. The parrots’ screech. A crow calls. A beautiful Other by the window waits. This all happens to you while I write, these scenes tangled in dreams, whirring fans—the poem unable to light any form, your reading, this page; unable to discover more than bare wisps of meaning in the vibrations of words—your song longing for someone in the infinite void. Wanting a mortal to read you into this,…
Eitan Press performs at ICSD Interfaith Eco Poetry Slam in Jerusalem
For more from this event, please see Michael Dekel’s poem on the human relationship with God!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vtRcVLa-Mc&t=12s See experienced Poetry slammer Ethan Press perform at the second annual ECO INTERFAITH POETRY SLAM in Jerusalem. He explains how prayer and coming together as a community will help us actively save the environment.
Rabbi Yonatan Neril Poem on Environmental Responsibility
For more from Neril, please see this video from the same event!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A7_G1T88wE Rabbi Yonatan Neril presents some commentary on the responsibility of humans among a fragile environment.
Solar Energy as God’s Blessing to Earth
Rabbi Yonatan Neril talks about the Lubavitcher Rebbe stressing the obligation to shift to solar energy in the US– “The real gift of God is the possibility to harness solar energy.” For more on solar energy, see https://youtu.be/34xzADhQaEU
Rabbi David Rosen: Love of the Divine is a Love of Our Environment
For more inspiring commentary from Rabbi David Rosen, please see this video on Judaism, ecology, and global responsibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7RgWgnejTk Rabbi David Rosen, International Director of Interreligious Affairs at AJC, comments on different opinions as to how Love of the Divine is possible. Whether the answer is based in an appreciation of the cosmos or the love of neighbor as an altruistic approach it must be related to the love God has towards mankind and our responsibility back towards God and the world He created. Rabbi Rosen mentions personalities like Pope Francis and the “Green Patriarch” Bartholomew who are pursuing this approach in order to promote sustainable development.
Rabbi David Rosen on Judaism, ecology, and global responsibility
For more informative commentary from Rabbi David Rosen, please see this video on love of the divine and God’s Creation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzLSuAHCDdc Rabbi David Rosen, International Director of Interreligious Affairs at AJC, posits that resistance among some Jews to embracing environmental values is due, not to a lack of rabbinic sources stating as much, but to the centuries of being alienated from their home land and having to cope with historical national hardships. Rabbi Rosen states the importance of once again learning to develop a sense of global responsibility.
Three Types of Personal Consumption with Major Ecological Impacts?
For more on sustainable and unsustainable consumption, please see this video on the practice of composting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h6OUVg8PsE&t=5s How does meat production, airplane travel and gold mining impact life on earth? Rabbi Yonatan Neril, founder and director of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development teaches about the impacts of three seemingly harmless activities that likely cause the greatest amount of damage to our planet and common home.