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Climate Change
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Fast Forward In a first, Oregon’s Jewish federations pull investments from fossil fuels
Federation leaders concluded that fossil fuel divestment aligned with their financial goals as well as their values
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Fast Forward A massive climate march is scheduled for Rosh Hashanah. Jewish activists give it a pass.
'This is not the discussion that we should be having,' said Shoshanna Segal. 'We should be having a discussion about: Is climate awareness somehow a 614th mitzvah?'
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News Five things Jews can do to stop climate change
If we as humans get climate change wrong, it will make very little difference what we as Jews get right
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Fast Forward With Chabad of Maui in wildfire evacuation zone, rabbi says ‘people are suffering’
Rabbi Mendy Krasnjansky said some congregants reported losing their homes
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News A boat trip aimed at saving the Dead Sea also explores the marvels revealed by its evaporation
Noam Bedein is the latest activist to confront a problem that has bedeviled Israel — how to save an ecological marvel and tourist attraction that is being depleted by water scarcity, industry and climate change
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News Feeling anxious about wildfire smoke? Here’s advice from a climate change chaplain
Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner on how to 'combat the profound isolation' of fears about climate change.
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Opinion Polluted skies over NYC will become our new normal — and this is why we organize
Dayenu founder says the smoke and orange haze that made the air unfit to breathe must open our eyes to activism
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Culture Smoke-filled skies evoke the Christian apocalypse — but what does Judaism say about the End Times?
New York was engulfed by thick, yellow smog from wildfires this week, causing a lot of discussion of doomsday
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Fast Forward USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website
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Fast Forward 2 House members lead the charge to oust the speaker. Both have been accused of trafficking in antisemitism.
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Fast Forward Hamas says it cannot produce 40 hostages meeting criteria for ceasefire deal, according to reports
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Opinion The head of the largest Christian Zionist organization is no friend to Israel — he wants an apocalypse there
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News Empty chairs, mirrors and pomegranates: How Jews are bringing the Israel-Hamas war to their seder tables this Passover
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News Columbia’s president, at House hearing, says university could do more to fight antisemitism
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Fast Forward FBI investigations of anti-Jewish hate crimes tripled after Oct. 7, director says
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Fast Forward Rachel Goldberg-Polin, Alex Edelman among Jews on Time’s 2024 ‘Most Influential’ list