This is the Forward’s coverage of climate change and its impact on the Jewish community.
Climate Change
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Theater His family survived the Holocaust. He survived long COVID. It’s Josh Fox’s ‘survivor’s obligation’ to fight the oil industry
In ‘The Edge of Nature,’ the Oscar nominee uses folk song to warn us about 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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News A pioneering Reform synagogue makes way for a booming Iranian Jewish community
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Opinion Who’s responsible for deadly antisemitism? Everyone will hate the answer
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Opinion Epstein and Iran are an antisemitism mega-crisis. Here’s what Jewish organizations should do about it.
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Film & TV Remembering Siskel and Ebert’s great debate: Mel Brooks or Woody Allen?
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Sports An Orthodox Jewish hooper famous for viral dunks aims to break Division-I boundaries
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Fast Forward Former Columbia professor tells NYU students to learn from Hamas at off-campus event
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: אַ שעפֿערישער מיטל צו באַלעבן די ייִדישע שפּראַך אין קלאַסצימערVIDEO: A creative way to make Yiddish come alive in the classroom
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News These states want to ban the term ‘West Bank’ and replace it with ‘Judea and Samaria’
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