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Jewish Community Position on Hydrofracking Adopted
For Immediate Release: May 14, 2012 Jewish Community Position on Hydrofracking Adopted During its annual policy conference, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs … Read more »
Dr. Mirele Goldsmith in Episcopal News Service article
By Lucy Chumbley Presenting the Jewish voice, Mirelle Goldsmith of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life sang a prayer traditionally offered on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement… Click here … Read more »
COEJL’s 2012 Farm Bill Priorities
As part of the Jewish Farm Bill Working Group – a diverse cross section of Jewish denominational, educational and advocacy organizations inspired by Jewish values to work for just U.S. food and agricultural policies – COEJL supports efforts that promote … Read more »
Responding to the Environmental Crisis as a Community
By Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield In 2006, I grasped the gravity of the environmental crisis, sitting in the theater of the Riverdale Y. The credits rolled at the end of “An Inconvenient Truth” and then we were urged to confront this … Read more »
COEJL’s Sybil Sanchez Visits Providence, The Jewish Voice & Herald
By Jonathan Stanzler PROVIDENCE – At a meeting of the Alliance Community Relations Council’s Environment Committee on the evening of Thursday, March 22, Sybil Sanchez, director of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL), spoke with a small, … Read more »
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