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.

The institute Church and Judaism is part of the evangelical church in Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz. The Institute sponsors students of theology as well as theologians working in Jerusalem. Scientific, educational and more general periodicals are published and the institute works with nationwide committees and stimulates research into the general field of Church and Judaism.