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Social Justice & Action (Diversity & Inclusivity) [clear filter]
Sunday, November 17
 

12:50pm EST

Choose Life: Healing the Climate Can Happen
Engage with a panel on ways to Choose Life in response to the climate crisis. This dynamic group of presenters will offer positive responses to climate change using their expertise in sustainability and renewable energy, ecological economics, and our spiritual connection to the earth.

Speakers
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Katy Allen

Co-founder and President, pro tem, Jewish Climate Action Network
Katy Allen is the founder and rabbi of Ma'yan Tikvah - A Wellspring of Hope, and the co-founder and President of Jewish Climate Action Network-MA. She is a board certified chaplain and a former healthcare chaplain and now considers herself an eco-chaplain.
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Oliver Braunschweig

Oliver Braunschweig is a PhD student in Economics at the New School with a focus on Ecological Economics, History, and Money & Banking. Environmentalism has long been an important part of his identity, and he has co-founded a student organization focused on sustainability in economics... Read More →
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Greg Hersh

Greg Hersh spent a year in Southeast Asia living in a Buddhist monastery and studying Tai Chi before entering rabbinical school. He is a TorahTrek-certified Jewish Wilderness Guide and attended outdoor retreats at Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School. He is the Rabbi at Temple Emmanuel... Read More →
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Harvey Michaels

Harvey Michaels is a Lecturer in Energy and Climate Innovation at the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative. He formerly led efficiency companies Aclara Software and Xenergy and is a climate innovation advisor to Carbon-free Boston, Cambridge Net Zero, and Boston Interfaith Environmental... Read More →


Sunday November 17, 2019 12:50pm - 1:50pm EST
G-06 384 Harvard Campus
 

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  • Encore
  • 'Listen To Her Voice: Women of the Hebrew Bible' by Mili Raver.
  • 'Modern Dreamwork: New Tools for Decoding Your Soul's Wisdom' Llewellyn Worldwide Publishers
  • 'The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary' by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Editor in Chief HarperOne 2015
  • Anthologies of Jewish poetry like Voices Within the Ark and Telling and Remembering
  • Article: Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism
  • Being Mortal - Dr. Atul Gawande ?Go Wish: A
  • Bodyheartandsoul.net
  • Book recommendations: 'Survivor Cafe: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory' by Elizabeth Rosner And for a very different perspective - 'The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past' by Julie Lindahl
  • Contact presenters for their Community Safety Needs template.
  • Denisehandlarski.com
  • Ehyeh by Arthur Green
  • elevationproject.com with Rav Doniel Katz
  • elsebyrangavrieli.com/
  • Finding aid: http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=365459 Vita-Brevis posts: https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/author/crussell/ Digital Archive: http://digitalcollections.americanancestors.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15869coll25
  • For follow up on the dynamic interaction between biblical stories/ and on the Bible's incisive rendering of complex family relations/ see my book/ Subversive Sequels in the Bible: How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other.
  • For Information about her classes and more about Mussar in Boston contact her at RabbiPlumb@mishkantefila.org
  • Go Wish: A Tool for End-of-Life Care Conversations”
  • Golem!: Danger/ Deliverance and Art (Emily Bilski) Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid (Moshe Idel) The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction (Elizabeth Baer)
  • hebrewcollege.academia.edu/RachelAdelman
  • http://blogs.israel.com/author/danny-siegel/
  • http://www.hevrakadisha.org/
  • https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/shut-the-concentration-camps-down/
  • https://jewishjournal.com/culture/lifestyle/first_person/303678/ny-artist-re-genders-the-torah-while-keeping-tradition/
  • https://jwa.org/stories
  • https://thebaisyaakovproject.com/
  • https://www.2lifecommunities.org/why-2life/live-well
  • https://www.boxingoverbroadway.com/my-brother-the-boxer-by-len-abram/
  • https://www.brandeis.edu/cmjs/noteworthy/jcc.html
  • https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moritz-daniel-oppenheim
  • https://www.leveninstitute.com/shake-your-soul
  • https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-torch/filling-the-missing-half-of-the-sacred-bookshelf/
  • https://www.sallygrazishatzkes.com/mywork
  • https://www.theglobalday.org/
  • Jewish Climate Action Network to get engaged and activated: JewishClimate.org
  • NatashaShabat.com
  • newenglandjewishlabor.org
  • nextcity.org/daily/entry/taking-steps-toward-a-community-controlled-economy-in-boston
  • Participants will receive a copy of the songbook 'Songs of My Father's' along with a link to my Adon Olam webpage which provides additional resources.
  • Principles of Harm Reduction: https://harmreduction.org/about-us/principles-of-harm-reduction/ Jews Work to Stem Opioid Abuse Crisis: https://www.jewishexponent.com/2019/08/05/safehouse-safe-injection-site-philadelphia/
  • Resources for further exploration of American Jewish music can be found on JacksonMercer.com
  • Shai Afsai. “Benjamin Franklin’s Influence on Mussar Thought and Practice: a Chronicle of Misapprehension” The Review of Rabbinic Judaism 22:2 (2019) pp. 228-276.
  • Subversive Sequels in the Bible How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other
  • The Invention of Jewish Theocracy coming in February 2020 from Oxford University Press
  • Thejewishexperience.org
  • thescribe.info
  • www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/temple-at-jerusalem/what-the-temple-mount-floor-looked-like/
  • www.cameraoncampus.org
  • www.dannysiegel.com/ blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/danny-siegel/
  • www.jewishclimate.org
  • www.lindayaelschiller.com
  • www.mainesynagogue.org
  • www.mbrlc.org www.namimass.org www.namiboston.org www.warmline.org www.openingdoorstothearts.org https://www.jfcsboston.org/Our-Services/CHAI-Services/Jewish-Life
  • www.moderndreamwork.com
  • www.nealgold.net
  • www.ros-schwartz.com
  • www.RuthNemzoff.com
  • www.sallygrazishatzkes.com/mywork
  • www.shirhamakom.org
  • www.storiesalive.com jb@storiesalive.com
  • www.suffrage100ma.org
  • You can read some of Rabbi Weiss' teachings on her website: rabbioraweiss.com.