Aklim – Climate
Category: Religion
Speaking to More Than One Generation at the Same Time
In a review of Jewish sermons, speeches, and articles across denominations, one of the salient themes is the use of secular facts, figures, and arguments that are brought into a religious context. The greater world is understood as complimenting and…
Read More“They won’t fool us again!”
Jewish wisdom often has a peculiar slant of viewing the world that is out of sync with mainstream media and punditry. The joke, which is not particularly funny, runs like this: A man comes running to his rabbi exclaiming that…
Read MoreA Prayer for these Times
“Every hand that we don’t shake must be a phone call that we place. Every embrace that we avoid must become a verbal expression of warmth and concern. Every inch and every foot that we physically place between ourselves and…
Read MoreWhy Advocacy?
Why are Jews being asked to organize on climate change? What is the strategy that community and national organizers are using? Is it working? Click here to read the article.
Read MoreThe Question of Australia
Australia is a burnt husk of itself as devasting fires have devoured millions of acres and killed up to one billion animals. The smoke from the fires have traveled around the globe and back again to choke the southern continent….
Read MoreJews, Politics, Australia
Should Jews be involved in climate politics? As Australia burns with the worst wildfires on record at the start of the fire season, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison has accused detractors of being members of “a climate cult.” When he…
Read MoreGreta Thunberg and TIME
TIME Magazine named Greta Thunberg their “person of the year,” in an acknowledgement of the dire need to address climate change now. Her nomination is a bright spot, which deserves further examination. First though, we must acknowledge the other developments…
Read MoreHow climate denial works in the religious world.
This 2017 article traces the influence of the fossil fuel industry on the Evangelical Christian movements. Read it here.
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