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The Masorti Environmental Sustainability Initiative (MESI) of the Conservative/Masorti Movement is leading a Weeks of Learning and Doing webinar series, taking place throughout the Omer (between Pesah and Shavuot). The webinar content is inspired by the concepts of Head (learning), Heart (spirituality), and Hand (action/advocacy). The series offers topics about the environment, Judaism and spirituality, food, greening your organization, and climate change that educate, inspire, and motivate.

This series is free and open to all.

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Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action mobilizes the American Jewish community for bold, strategic climate action, rooted in Jewish wisdom, tradition, and spirit. Join Rabbi Laura Bellows, Dayenu's Director of Spiritual Activism and Education, for a taste of Dayenu's Spiritual Adaptation work. This interactive session will offer participants strategies and Jewish frameworks for addressing climate distress; cultivating imagination for a livable, sustainable future; and moving together toward courageous action.
With new government and utility company incentives, there is an unprecedented opportunity to update synagogue facilities to make them greener and cleaner. Led by Jerry Sorokin, Executive Director of Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, MI, learn about what this congregation is doing to take advantage of grants, rebates, and heightened environmental awareness as it renovates its aging building.
Join Scott Kadish, EA, and Leonard Whitman, CPA, to learn about how to help your synagogue save money and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by taking advantage of monetary benefits available from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard will speak about the Biblical understanding of humanity's relationship with the other species with whom we share this world. Rabbi Becky Joseph will share material illustrating rabbinic preferences for limiting meat consumption, including a few suggestions for how to eat like a vegetable-loving Sage. She'll also include a link to two plant-based seasonal recipes with ingredients mentioned in the Gemara for you to make at home.
Jews are taking action personally and as communities to heal the earth. We also need new laws and policies to achieve our goals. Come together with intergenerational climate activists from Jewish Earth Alliance, Adamah’s Jewish Youth Climate Movement, and Dr. Adriane Leveen of Hebrew Union College to learn how you and your congregation can get involved in climate justice.
Join Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin, co-author of a Teshuvah (Jewish legal Responsum) called "On the Mitzvah of Sustainability” to explore *the* foundational mitzvah for caring for the world - though most of us have never heard about it. Learn about what the mitzvah says about how should a Jew live and what Jewish Law (Halakhah) teaches and requires in the critical matter of environmental sustainability.