The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life concentrates on addressing climate change and encouraging sustainable congregations. Its national partners are the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the National Religious Partnership for the Environment.

Read a Christian Science Monitor article, “Should Churches Convert Drivers of SUVS?”

Read a 2002 story by Elizabeth Kadetsky on beliefnet.com about Western and Eastern religious leaders’ increasing activism on environmental issues.

Rabbi Eve Rudin is Director of the Congregational School at the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. Previously, she was Director of the Department of Camp Excellence and Advancement for the Foundation for Jewish Camp, as well as the Director of the URJ Kutz Campus for Reform Jewish Teen Life and the North American Federation […]

Rabbi Hayim Herring is President and CEO of Herring Consulting Network. Prior to this he was executive director of STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal), an organization based in Minneapolis that worked to renew the American Jewish community through congregational innovation and leadership development. He helped conduct a study called “Shema: Listening to Jewish Youth,” examining the attitudes of […]

Amy L. Sales is associate director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. She has studied Jewish life on college campuses and the experience of teenagers at Jewish summer camps. She is co-author of How Goodly Are Thy Tents: Summer Camps as Jewish Socializing Experiences (University Press of New England, 2003), […]

Jewish rocker Rick Recht of St. Louis considers himself an educator as well as a musician. He plays more than 125 concerts a year and has recorded several Jewish albums and one secular one.

Read an Associated Press story from 2002 about the religious views of the “millennial generation” (born starting in 1982).