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Praying for Rain: Who Affects the Weather, God or Us?

By Rabbi Julian Sinclair Sukkot has a special connection to rain. The Talmud (Rosh Hoshanah 16a) says that on Sukkot, we are judged for the rainfall we will receive in the coming year. On Shemini Atze… more →

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Praying for Rain: Who Affects the Weather, God or Us?

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 3 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair Sukkot has a special connection to rain. The Talmud (Rosh Hoshanah 16a) say … more →

Tags: Jewish Holidays, climate change, Ecology, Environmnet, Global Warming, Israel, rain, Sukkot

A Couple of Thoughts for Yom Kippur — 2 comments

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 3 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair The Power of One On Yom Kippur we examine our actions.  The scrupulous revi … more →

Tags: Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Religion and Climate Change, climate change, Environment, Global Warming, Jonah, Yom Kippur

Julian Gets to Grips with Green Business with a Double Book Review — 2 comments

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 3 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair A couple of years after former Sierra Club President Adam Werbach founded  … more →

The Ninth of Av, Copenhagen and Climate Change — 1 comment

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 3 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair Recently I was asked an interesting question by an Israel environmental lea … more →

Tags: Jewish Holidays, climate change, Copenhagen, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Israel, Judaism, mourning

Climate Change, Copenhagen and the Three Weeks — 3 comments

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 3 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair The Copenhagen Summit in December is a gathering of world leaders that aims … more →

Tags: climate crisis, Jewish Holidays, climate change, Copenhagen, Ecology, Environment, Fasting, Global Warming, Jews

Sally Bingham's "Love God, Heal Earth": A Review, by Rabbi Julian Sinclair — 2 comments

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 3 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair, as published on www.GreenProphet.com Twenty years, ago, Sally Bingham went … more →

Tags: Religious Leaders on Climate Change, Religion and Climate Change, julian sinclair, Green Prophet, Love the World, heal the Earth, Christians on Climate Change, Sally Bingham

Envy-Based Economics and a Forgotten Tenth Commandment — 5 comments

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair On Shavuot morning next Friday, in synagogues around the world, we will rea … more →

Tags: Jewish Holidays, Shavuot, climate change, consumption, Ecology, Economic Crisis, financial crisis, Global Warming, Judaism

The Whole World is the Land of Israel: Rabbi Dov Berkowitz on Water, the Desert, the Jewish People and Climate Change — 1 comment

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair This was one of the most exciting and original talks at JCI‘s April c … more →

Tags: Judaism, climate change, jewish ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Ecology, Israel, Torah, Rabbi Dov Berkowitz

Pollution in a Promised Land: Alon Tal on Israel and the Environment — 4 comments

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair Here in Israel we celebrated Yom Ha’atzma’ut, Independence Day, … more →

Tags: israel environment, Environment, Ecology, sustainability, Israel, Alon Tal, pollution in the promised land, green movment meimad

Jews on Climate Change: In the News

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: Jewish Climate Initiative/Hazon‘s recent Vayehi Or event was recently featured in the Jerusale … more →

Tags: climate change, Good News!, Jewish Climate Initiative, Judaism, Global Warming, Hazon, Nigel Savage, Blessing of the Sun, Jewish People

A Seven Year Plan for the Jewish People on Climate Change and Sustainability — 7 comments

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: This past Sunday, 53 of Israel’s top scientists, business people, environmentalists, policy ma … more →

Tags: Jewish Climate Initiative, climate change, Taking Action, Religion and Climate Change, Hazon, sustainability, Nigel Savage, Birkat Hahama, Pesach

Nature's Due: Healing our Fragmented Culture, by Brian Goodwin

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: A Review, by Rabbi Julian Sinclair I am really not the right person to be reviewing “Nature … more →

Tags: Ecology, Book Review, Brian Goodwin, Nature's Due, Evolution, DNA, Green Prophet, Culture

A Memo to Bibi Netanyahu — 1 comment

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair Dear Bibi, It was great to read about your 100 day plan in last week’ … more →

Tags: israel environment, Solar Power, renewable energy, Taking Action, bibi netanyahu energy renewable energy alternative ener

Birkhat Hahama, The Blessing of the Sun, 2009 — 10 comments

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair Here’s a short quiz. Read the following quote and then answer the sim … more →

Tags: Judaism, Solar Power, renewable energy, halakha, Taking Action, Jewish Holidays, Religion and Climate Change, climate change, Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Solar Power, Wind Power and Spiritual Power Come Together at Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Conference in Southern Israel — 4 comments

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair Two things were clear from attending the International Renewable Energy Con … more →

Tags: Good News!, israel environment, renewable energy, Solar Power, Alternative Energy, aora, apricum, Arava Power Company, Arnold Goldman

Learning about Noachide Laws, from the Wisdom of Trees — 3 comments

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair Tu B’shevat has become the de facto ” Hag Ha’ Environment … more →

Tags: Ecology, halakha, jewish ecology, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Adam, Big Mac, carob tree, climate change

Rabbi Sinclair's Speaking Tour Continues

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: Jewish Climate Initiative/Climate of Change‘s Rabbi Julian Sinclair’s speaking tour in t … more →

Tags: Food, Hazon, Judaism, seder, Speaking Tour, Tu B'Shevat

Harlem Goes Green: Urban Sustainability in the Inner-City

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair David and Joyce Dinkins Gardens I met Chansee in the heart of Harlem enteri … more →

Tags: Good News!, Dalai Lama, david and joyce dinkins gardens, Garrison Institute, green construction, Harlem, HCCI, Inner city, jonathan rose companies

Why Kyoto Has Failed: Wicked Problems and the Wrong Trousers — 1 comment

Jewish Climate Initiative wrote 4 years ago: By Rabbi Julian Sinclair Thanks to Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute for pressing … more →

Tags: Policy, climate change, Judaism, Kyoto Protocol, prins and rayner, Religion, the wrong trousers, "Wicked Problems"


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