The future of water in Los Angeles:  What the Israeli experience can show us

Published on July 25, 2012

Most people in Los Angeles don’t feel just how serious the city’s water predicament is.

Ceremony launches multi-year conservation project at Auschwitz

Published on June 7, 2012

A ceremony on the grounds of Auschwitz officially kicked off a multi-year, $150 million conservation project.

Reform, Conservative St. Louis day schools to merge

Published on October 19, 2011

Two St. Louis Jewish day schools, a Reform and a Conservative, have voted to merge.

Red-Dead canal idea stirs controversy

By Dina Kraft
Published on August 3, 2008

The World Bank is conducting a $14 million study of a plan to build a canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. Environmentalists say the canal idea is a risky proposition to save the Dead Sea, which is rapidly shrinking.

OPINION: Save the Dead Sea by restoring the Jordan River, not by building a canal to the Red Sea

Published on August 3, 2008

The way to save the Dead Sea is by restoring freshwater flow from a rehabilitated Jordan River, not building an ecologically risky channel from the Red Sea

Israel invests in clean tech as energy crunch looms

By Dina Kraft
Published on July 2, 2008

Industry observers say more aggressive government policies, such as underwriting renewable energy initiatives and granting more land for power plants, are needed to bolster the development of alternative energy.

A Festival of Lights—lite

By Rachel Kantrowitz
Published on December 14, 2006

COEJL's Web site describes its three-pronged approach of "engaging the Jewish community in awareness, advocacy and concrete action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote energy conservation and sustainable legislation," in order to "change how American Jewry responds to ... daunting environmental problems."

The Treasures on Top of the Mountain

By Lisa Alcalay Klug
Published on November 17, 2005

Masada, which represents a stronghold of Jewish courage and defiance, is among Israel's most visited sites. Located in the Judean Desert, adjacent to the Dead Sea, King Herod the Great built Masada 2,100 years ago as both his winter palace and a place where he would retreat in times of crisis.

Tom Tugend, Contributing Editor

Published on December 16, 2004

"This project marks the convergence of two traditions, without detracting from the integrity of either one," said Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels of Beth Shir Sholom, the "Progressive Reform" congregation long active in interfaith relations. "In both traditions, trees symbolize new life and hope."

Your Letters

Published on January 23, 2003

In our studies at Beth Chayim Chadashim's (BCC) Queer Jewish Think Tank, we are not throwing out the halacha, nor are we bending and twisting the texts to suit our own devices ("A Conservative Challenge," Jan. 17).

Fuel for the Fire

By Rob Eshman
Published on November 21, 2002

Funny how a massive attack on American shores, the devastating loss of 3,000 innocent lives, the U.S. invasion of one country (Afghanistan), the incipient invasion of another (Iraq) and the continued threat of biological, nuclear and random terror in our own neighborhoods can get people thinking.

Conservation and Appreciation

By Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Published on May 2, 2002

I learned of the Jewish slant on conservation on my first flight to Israel in my late teens.