FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 15, 2006 NEW YORK, NY—Canfei Nesharim (“the Wings of Eagles”), an organization dedicated to educating the Orthodox Jewish community about protecting the environment from the perspective of Torah and Jewish law, has engaged more than 30 families and communities in 11 states (and one Canadian province) in a new program to […]
Please click here for news about our Jewcology project. January 2013: New Jewish Energy for Tu b’Shevat April 2012: New Jewish Environmental Network Receives Start-Up Grant (Jspace) February 2012: Judaism and Climate Change (Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media) February 2012: 50 Jewish Leaders Celebrate Tu Bishvat with Pledge to Cut Greenhouse-Gas Emissions by 14 percent in 2014 (Think Progress) February 2012: Clean Energy […]
Canfei Nesharim is proud to launch our Year of Jewish Action on the Environment, in partnership with Jewcology! Actions will be released approximately every two weeks through Tu b’Shevat 5774. Together, we can make a difference! Following up on our Year of Jewish Learning on the Environment, this year we will be focusing on actions […]
New York/DC, January 22, 2013 On Thursday, January 24th, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) and Canfei Nesharim, an organization that focuses on sustainable living inspired by Torah, will begin a new strategic collaboration to promote advocacy and action on energy policy and conservation in the Jewish community. COEJL’s Jewish Energy […]
A Leadership Tool for Engaging the Unengaged How do you motivate people? In the Jewish-environmental movement, it seems that we share fact after fact about the environmental challenges we face, and list after list of things that people can do to make a difference. We’ve also gotten good at telling people what Jewish values […]
