Environmental Justice
Toward a Jubilee Economy & Ecology in the Modern World
32. BEHAR | Earth | Environmental Justice | Freeing Our Time | Globalization and Economic Justice | Spirituality of JusticeBy Rabbi Arthur Waskow
[This essay is a chapter in Rabbi Waskow's book Godwrestling -- Round 2 (Jewish Lights, 1996). The book is available as a free gift from The Shalom Center, personally inscribed by Rabbi Waskow as you choose, if you use the Donate Now button on the right to make a tax-deductible contribution of $180 or more.
[At the end of this essay you will find citations on teachings from the Hebrew Bible & related materials toward a Jubilee Economics and Ecologics.]::
One lesson that we have discerned from studying the story of the Flood [see a previous chapter from Godwrestling -- Round 2] is that it is profoundly necessary for us to affirm and celebrate the cycles of life if we wish to preserve the cycles of life. Are those cycles now in danger? And if so, how can we affirm them?
Sacred Food, Sacred Festivals: The Jewish Year as a Celebration of Nourishment
Environmental Justice | Sacred Foods | Festival SpiralHOW FOOD FRAMES THE FESTIVALS:
THE JEWISH PATTERN
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The cycle of Jewish festivals has become intimately connected with specific foods, and the themes of the festivals lend themselves to focusing on specific aspects of what makes food sacred.
DAYS OF AWE: ROSH HASHANAH THROUGH YOM KIPPUR (Evening September 12, through September 22, 2007)
Rosh Hashanah is symbolically connected with eating apple slices dipped in honey. The apple evokes the round cycle of the year as it begins, and the honey hopes for its sweetness. The festival focuses on ten days (traditionally known as the Days of Awe) of tshuvah/ turning one's self in a new direction that culminate in Yom Kippur, a day of not eating or drinking at all.
The National Guard: At Home or in Iraq (when Katrina came)?
Iraq-US War | Environmental Justice | Globalization and Economic JusticePete Yost, Will Bunch, Sidney Blumenthal 08/31/2005
1. OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENTS HINDER GUARD HURRICANE PRESENCE
By Pete Yost
Associated Press (from Army Times)
August 31, 2005
Some 6,000 National Guard personnel in Louisiana and Mississippi who would be available to help deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are in Iraq, highlighting the changing role of Americas part-time soldiers.
Big Oil's War against Europe
Environmental Justice | Oiloholic Uncle Sam & Global Scorching | BlogRabbi Arthur Waskow 3/8/2005
Dear Friends,
We have posted on our Website a BBC report on rising European wrath against the US for its CO2 emissions. During early March, I was in Edinburgh to speak & teach at a conference on the spiritual roots of peacemaking. In one of my talks, I said:
FBI Pays Up for Harassing Environmentalist
Environmental JusticeVarious authors, 4/27/2004
Dear Friends,
Perhaps the worst case of US governmental harassment of an environmental activist was the way the FBI responded to a bombing attack on Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, Earth First! activists. Their car was bombed in May 1990, and Bari was badly hurt.
Justice and Eco-Kashrut
Environmental JusticeRabbi Arthur Waskow
JUSTICE AND ECO-KASHRUT
According to traditional halakhic categories, it is forbidden to oppress workers, including food workers, but what is "kosher" to eat does not rest on the absence of violation of that mit
Redwoods, Tobacco & Torah
Environmental JusticeRabbi Arthur Waskow
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