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A Sabbath for the Land and the People – Rav Kook’s Shabbat Ha’aretz and The Peoplehood Potential of Shmita

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[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 14 - Sustainability and Jewish Peoplehood - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Yedidya Sinclair “As Farmers and Field Rest, a Land Grows Restless” New York Times Headline about the shmita year in Israel”, October 8th 2007 “In Israel, Values of a Holy Respite are Adapted for a High-Tech World” New York Times Headline about the shmita year in Israel, September 24th, … [Read more...] about A Sabbath for the Land and the People – Rav Kook’s Shabbat Ha’aretz and The Peoplehood Potential of Shmita

Sustainable Israel-Diaspora Engagement through Sustainability

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[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 14 - Sustainability and Jewish Peoplehood - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Jay Shofet Today, unsurprisingly, according to surveys in the North American Jewish community, environmental issues are among the top concerns and philanthropic giving areas of the younger generation. Fortuitously at this very moment, the maturation of the Israeli environmental movement … [Read more...] about Sustainable Israel-Diaspora Engagement through Sustainability

Climate, Shmita and Consumption

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[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 14 - Sustainability and Jewish Peoplehood - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Sid Schwarz There are times when even atheists have trouble denying that there is a “hand of God” at work in history. How else to explain the coincidence of the largest ever gathering of humanity to assemble around the world to highlight the urgency of global action on climate change the … [Read more...] about Climate, Shmita and Consumption

Future Ethics: The Moral Imperative of Sustainability from a Jewish Covenantal Perspective

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[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 14 - Sustainability and Jewish Peoplehood - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Rabbi Lawrence Troster The impending disaster of climate change is primarily an ethical crisis. The human exploitation of the earth’s resources has been made possible by the unprecedented power and scope of modern human technology but this same technology has also caused extensive … [Read more...] about Future Ethics: The Moral Imperative of Sustainability from a Jewish Covenantal Perspective

Intersectional Justice and Intersectional Peoplehood: A Shmita Vision for Jewish Identity Education

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[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 14 - Sustainability and Jewish Peoplehood - published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.] By Robin Moss What might sustainability have to do with Jewish peoplehood? As well as the obvious answer - namely that sustainability is a necessarily collective endeavor (at least if it is to move beyond the ineffectual or the tokenistic) - I wish to propose a deeper answer. It seems to me … [Read more...] about Intersectional Justice and Intersectional Peoplehood: A Shmita Vision for Jewish Identity Education