RAVEN: A WORD OF TORAH IN HONOUR OF R. ARTHUR WASKOW Z”L Rabbi Arthur Waskow passed away on October 20,…
Category: Animals
Land: Look up From Your Screen and Listen
Land says: The land and everything that fills it, the world and all who dwell in it, are God’s (Psalms…
Eagle Feather: I Carried You Back
Eagle story. It’s not quite a story of sin and redemption. But it is a story of crime and reconciliation—a…
Free on-line course: Perek Shira, Song of the Land
Please join me—and my co-teachers—for a free on-line course this June. We’ll explore ecological wisdom from three perspectives: ancient Jewish,…
Monstrous Other: A Case Study
Animals in Deuteronomy. How does Moses, the narrator, see them? As Other than human, mostly. And mostly not in a…
Magic Snakes (Chukat)
Magic. Sometimes the Torah condemns it. But sometimes the Torah condones it. Like in Parshat Chukat, for example. Magic in…
Global Read: Animals, Compassion, Spirituality
Watch a fantastic book discussion, sponsored by the Charter for Compassion. Thank you, everyone, for asking such thoughtful questions about…
Tachash: Protected Species
Tachash. The mystery animal in this week’s Torah reading. Could it be from an extinct species? Meet the Tachash Here’s…
Climate Crisis: Jewish Learning
Judaism Unbound Episode 417: Jewish Learning for Climate Crisis – Laura Duhan-Kaplan, Yosef Rosen Yosef Rosen is a historian of…