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.

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.    

Gregory Hitzhusen is a lecturer in the School of Environmental and Natural Resources at Ohio State University. His research interests include religious influences on environmental attitudes and behavior and other aspects of environmental ethics and eco-theology. Hitzhusen, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on the contributions of Christianity and Judaism to environmental ethics and education and […]

Read the transcript of an Aug. 14, 2009, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly story on families who are using bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies that inculcate environmental values.

The Jewish Daily Forward describes relief efforts by Israel and by Jewish groups in the U.S.

Ora Horn Prouser is executive vice president and academic dean at the Academy for Jewish Religion, a pluralistic rabbinical and cantorial school in Yonkers, N.Y. She is the author of Esau’s Blessing: How the Bible Embraces Those With Special Needs.

Shelly Christensen is program manager for the Minneapolis Jewish Community Inclusion Program for People with Disabilities. She is the author of a community guide to inclusion.

Read an April 30, 2012, JTA story about strides made by synagogues toward greater inclusion of those with nonphysical disabilities.