Ideas Remembering Ellen Bernstein, 70, the ‘birthmother’ of Jewish environmentalism A close friend and colleague members the founder of Shomrei Adamah, a Jewish group that asserted that the environmental crisis is a spiritual crisis.
Rabbi Lawrence Troster, Jewish environmental activist, dies at 65 He frequently lectured on and wrote about the religious perspective on environmentalism, bioethics, and Judaism and modern science.
First Person Ideas How going to synagogue regularly turned me into a dumpster diver JTA’s Europe correspondent wanted to go to shul. He ended up rummaging in trash for food — and making his life better.