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Stewardship Stories
Stewardship Stories of Engagement in the Jewish Community
This is a support document for the Jewish Stewardship Story, "Speaking Out for Children's Health," and is a sample legislative advocacy letter:
The California Interfaith Partnership for Children's Health…
This is a support document for the Jewish Stewardship Story, "Over a Decade of Jewish Environmental Activism at Temple Emanuel: a Model for Greening Your Synagogue," and is an example…
Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills, Michigan
Adat Shalom, a Conservative shul (synagogue) in Farmington Hills, Michigan, has embraced a wide variety of recycling projects. The synagogue campus consists of a…
Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore Jewish, Non-denominational
The Owings Mills campus of the Jewish Community Center has within its borders a modest wood and meandering stream. The surrounding community…
Hazon, New York, NY and National
Hazon is a non-profit Jewish organization based in New York City, but with members across the US and beyond the nation’s borders. Their primary…
Canfei Nesharim, New York, NY and National
Canfei Nesharim (“the Wings of Eagles”) partnered with Orthodox synagogues across the United States to include environmental teachings in the Jewish festival holidays…
Temple Isaiah, Los Angeles, CA Jewish, Reform Movement
Temple Isaiah has been a part of COEJL Southern California’s Green Sanctuary program for the last two years. The Green Team began…
The California Interfaith Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment, California Interfaith, with Jewish participation
“Judaism affirms that the world is God’s creation and that whoever helps to preserve it…
Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel Boise, Idaho
In 2003, Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel moved their 108-year old synagogue to a new four-acre site. In their long-range plan, they envisioned the inclusion…
COEJL Santa Cruz Jewish, Non-denominational
This delightful program uses the holiday of Purim to educate the Jewish community of Santa Cruz, California, about organic foods and alternative transportation. There are…
Redwood Rabbis, Northern California Jewish, Non-denominational
While many Jewish congregations may celebrate Tu B’shevat, the Jewish New Year of the Trees, with simple rituals of tree-planting or the eating of…
Temple Emanuel, Kensington, Maryland Jewish, Reform Movement
Temple Emanuel’s bimah, with its wooden sculpture of a banyan tree and its solar powered Ner Tamid (eternal light), exemplifies the many ways…
Congregation Bet Haverim, Atlanta, Georgia Jewish, Reconstructionist Movement
Congregation Bet Haverim’s “One for Each Night” program very effectively ties a CFL distribution & energy awareness campaign to the imagery of…
Adamah Fellowship Program at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT
Aitan Mizrahi always knew he wanted a profession that was based on do-it-yourself, off-the-grid skills, and he wanted…
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center Falls Village, Connecticut Jewish, Non-Denominational
Isabella Freedman rests on 450 acres of forested land and lush meadows in the foothills of the southern Berkshires. As…
Congregation Har HaShem, Boulder, CO Jewish, Reform Movement
Based in part on the materials from COEJL’s Operation Noah, and in part on the Catholic ceremonies commemorating St. Francis of Assisi…
Temple Beth Israel, Eugene, OregonJewish, Reconstructionist Movement
What does composting kitchen scraps have to do with reciting the Shema, the prayer most central to the Jewish affirmation of the oneness…
Baltimore, MD
Kayam Farm organically grows healthy food for the Pearlstone Conference & Retreat Center and greater Baltimore, Maryland community, while offering both Jewish and non-sectarian hands-on agricultural and environmental…
Robert Saligman Middle School, Melrose Park, PAJewish, Conservative Movement
Robert Saligman Middle School is part of a larger educational community, the Perelman Jewish Day School. The campus is shared not…
The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life in Southern California
In January 2002, COEJL Southern California asked Governor Davis and members of the State Legislature to support Assembly Bill…
Taste of Adamah at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT
Dava Schub was looking for something to do with her 6-year old niece and 4-year old nephew…
Jewish Reconstructionist Community, Evanston, IL
CONGRATULATIONS TO JRC for receiving LEED Platinum Certification in October 2008 – giving them the status of the greenest synagogue on the planet! [Compiled from…
Adamah Fellowship Program at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT
Beginning in the 1990’s, Zelig Golden became interested in community agriculture and dreamed about farming through experiences he’d…
Adamah Fellowship Program at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat CenterFalls Village, CT
In 2005, Adina Allen was an undergraduate environmental studies student at a university in Boston, MA taking an intensive…
The Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles, CAJewish, Reform Movement
The Wilshire Boulevard Temple kicked off its first year of “Engage the Environment” in 2004 by having an energy audit, supervised…
American Jewish CommitteeNew York, NY, National and International
The American Jewish Committee, begun in 1906, promotes pluralistic and democratic societies where all minorities are protected, and all people are accorded…
Northwest Jewish Environmental ProjectPortland, OregonJewish, Non-Denominational
In 2003, the Northwest Jewish Environmental Project launched a year-long energy campaign, asking the Jewish community to turn up its compassion, by turning off…
Temple Beth El, Bloomfield Hills, MIJewish, Reform Movement
Since 1997, the Ellin and Harold Lawson Youth Institute has sought to bring the most creative minds in Jewish education to the…
Canfei Nesharim, New York, NY Jewish, Orthodox
The 19th-century scholar, Rabbi Samuel Rafael Hirsch, in his commentary on the book of Genesis (2:4), describes the work of G-d's creation as…
Boston, MA — Boston COEJL, coordinated by Susie Davidson and Amelia Geggel, began a statewide “Pledge to Green" synagogues in Massachusetts. The Pledge, a nonbinding promise to practice more environmentally-conscious…
STEWARDSHIP STORIES
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Recycling and Energy Savings
Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills, Michigan Adat Shalom, a Conservative shul (synagogue) in Farmington Hills,...
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St. John Fisher Chapel University ParishEarth Care Ministry Troy, MI The Earth Care ministry...
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Green Burial
Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Munroe, MI Nationally recognized as models of sustainable living, the IHM Sisters of Monroe now are coming full circle. They are pioneering the emerging trend of "sustainable dying." In August 2009 the sisters carried out their first green burial. IHM Sister Antoinette Ruedisueli, who died on Aug. 16, was the first IHM sister to have opted for a green burial. Green burial reduces a person's environmental impact...
Read moreHealing Lives, Restoring the Earth
Marah International Attleboro, MA Imagine growing up as a child in the environmental disaster areas of Eastern Europe or the former ...
Read moreSt. Joan of Arc Parish Center Environmental Features
This is a support document for the Catholic Stewardship Story, "Parish Renovation," at the Church of St. Joan of Arc in Minnesota, and is an example of the various sustainable features they included when renovating their parish buildings: Church of St. Joan of Arc Parish Center The “Natural Step,”...
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