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“COMMENTARY: Ending the modern-day slave trade”

Read a Feb. 5, 2014, essay by Nancy K. Kaufman, chief executive officer of the National Council of Jewish Women. Her organization and others have worked since the early 1900s to protect immigrants and other vulnerable people from traffickers, she says, and the effort continues.

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Miriam Therese MacGillis

Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis is a Roman Catholic sister in the Dominican order who has been deeply involved in environmental work for decades. In 1980, she helped create Genesis Farm, an Earth literacy center in Blairstown, N.J., and she serves as its director. In 2007, the environmental magazine Grist named her one of the world’s top […]

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“Toward a Greener Judaism”

Read a Jan. 29, 2010, story in The Forward about the executive director of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life and her plans for the organization.    

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