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.
Responsibility: An Interfaith Response to Climate Change
For more on environmental ethics and responding to climate change, please see this video of Dr. Sailesh Rao speaking on our responsibility toward the planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OKG8b6dnQM The effects of our actions and climate change can be seen all over the world. In this video, clergy members from various religious faiths call upon all peoples of this planet to put aside their differences and come together to make a change/ Before its too late.
Dr. Mary Tucker on Faith and Ecology: Religious Education in the Era of Climate Change Summit
For more from the informative speakers at the Religious Education in the Era of Climate Change Summit, please see this video of Michael Borchard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiglgsAcc-4&t=132s Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale, discusses how to promote teaching on faith and ecology within seminaries. In light of the great challenges we are facing, what role can religion play? Stewarding creation is something that the next generation of seminary students must address, and this video shares a number of ideas for how to engage seminaries to teach more on faith and ecology.