Dayenu, a nonprofit group, is mobilizing Jews around a threat that organizers warn every walk of life on earth must confront: climate change. by Cara Buckley | The New York...
by Fiona Murphy | The Washington Post and Associated Press In mid-September, Val Smith, chief sustainability officer at Citigroup, one of the United States’ Big Four of banking, met with four...
Los Angeles Times | October 10, 2024 by Sammy Roth, Climate Columnist “See, I have set before you this day life and death, blessing and curse — and [you should]...
Arizona Jewish Post, Phyllis Braun, AJP Feature Writer In March, Kol Ami Synagogue started the first Arizona circle of Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, a movement of American Jews...
Central Ohio’s Jewish community is turning faith into action through sustainability efforts inspired by Jewish teachings – and Laurie Reitman is helping lead the charge. “Sustainability is found throughout the...
by Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi – At the start of Lee Zeldin’s appointment as the first Jewish Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), there was a spark of hope. After...
Catholic and other faith-based organizations submitted nearly 10,000 comments opposing the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke the bedrock environmental policy underpinning federal regulations on polluting emissions that drive climate change...
Opinion piece by Jennie Rosenn, Fletcher Harper and Saffet Catovic The last nine months have been an unmitigated disaster for the climate. The Trump administration has decimated federal policy and programming that was...
That might sound hyperbolic. But sadly, it isn’t. After months of relentless anti-environmental regulatory efforts at the EPA, Administrator Lee Zeldin is now tearing out the foundation of our country’s...
by Rabbi Jennie Rosenn For several years now on Tisha B’Av, I’ve found myself returning to a single theme: how the Jewish people built a profoundly different future after unbelievable loss.
Last Wednesday, in a pre-Tisha B’Av virtual lobbying day, the volunteer-run Jewish Earth Alliance partnered with 57 Jewish synagogues and nonprofits to commend lawmakers for positive moves for the environment...
While I do my best to prioritize my health, there is often a discouraging thought lingering in my mind: Even if I do all of these things, so much of...
“Jewish values compel us to confront the climate crisis with bold action,” Rabbi Jacob Siegel, Dayenu’s climate finance advisor and policy associate, told eJewishPhilanthropy. For Dayenu, divestment is the only moral...
Many Jewish religious leaders praised Mr. Zeldin for publicly celebrating his identity. But for Jewish environmental activists, the reflection was on something different: Mr. Zeldin’s role in weakening rules designed...
by Michal Strutin, San Jose. Steering committee member, Dayenu Circle of Jewish Silicon Valley Published in The Jewish News of Northern California, May 2, 2025 At the end of Passover,...