Groundswell: Alon Eliran on Forest Cities
Dr. Alon Eliran is a member of CityTree, a Tel Aviv based knowledge center focused on forest cities, urban ecology and climate resilience.
Dr. Alon Eliran is a member of CityTree, a Tel Aviv based knowledge center focused on forest cities, urban ecology and climate resilience.
Abby Bresler is a senior at Dartmouth College and the coordinator of the Jewish Youth Climate Movement.
Rabbi Dev Noily, cofounder of Jews on Ohlone Land, on why climate activists need to follow indigenous leadership.
Penny and Peter first met on a kibbutz in Palestine, where they both moved to escape the second World War. They were separated when she moved to England, only to be reunited years later, after he had become a famous singer in Israel.
Naomi Tsur is the founder and executive chair of the Jerusalem Green Fund, which promotes environmental, social and economic sustainability in Greater Jerusalem.
Gidon Bromberg is a cofounder of EcoPeace Middle East, a tri-national Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian NGO focused on environmental cooperation.
Q&A with Rachel Binstock, organizer with Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, about spiritual adaptation to climate crisis.
To properly bless the food you’re eating, you have to know how it was grown—whether it came from a tree or the land or a vine. And that’s really powerful to me because increasingly we’re more disconnected from our food.
While you can take the boy out of Mississippi, you can’t take Mississippi out of the boy. My jeep had a red and white Rebel Flag on the back spare tire and a plastic statue of General Robert E. Lee stuck on the dash, making it most likely the only Confederate shrine in the Middle East.
Based on the novel by Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua, Let It Be Morning is Israel’s official submission to next year’s 94th Academy Awards, in the “Best International Feature Film” category.
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.