Description

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Innovative contributors bring us a richer understanding of the long-neglected themes of nature that are woven through the biblical creation story, ancient texts, traditional law, the holiday cycles, prayer, mitzvot (good deeds) and community.

About the Author

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Ellen Bernstein is the founder of Shomrei Adamah-Keepers of the Earth, the first institution dedicated to cultivating the ecological thinking and practices integral to Jewish life. She is author of Ecology & the Jewish Spirit: Where Nature and the Sacred Meet and currently works as director of community building at the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.Ellen Bernstein is available to speak on the following topics: Reading the Bible EcologicallyPrayer from an Ecological PerspectiveWhy Judaism Needs Ecology and Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Spiritual ApproachCreation TheologyWhy (and How) to Start a Synagogue Garden or Farm!