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feature In 2019, Rabbi Jennie Rosenn—a veteran of the Jewish nonprofit world—founded Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action. In March 2021, Steven Spielberg selected the organization, which has quickly sprung into the center of the vibrant climate justice movement, to receive a portion of his million-dollar Genesis Prize. Arielle Silver-Willner: What drove you to start... Read more » feature In 1988, when many people were ignoring ecologists, Rabbi Ellen Bernstein founded Shomrei Adamah (Keepers of the Earth), the first Jewish ecological organization in the U.S. Rabbi Bernstein sought t...

Share In 1974, my mother was twenty years old, trying to make it as a theater actress in New York after dropping out of Bennington College. She was in a painting class led by the eccentric Ukrainian-Jewish artist Norman Raeben (the youngest child of the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem). One day, Bob Dylan showed up unannounced. They were painting abstracts at the time, and when it was my mother’s turn to comment on Dylan’s work she just shrugged. At first, that was the sum of their relationship: her quiet refusal to adulate Dylan’s celebrity. One evening, after a particul...

APS Classrooms Open For Full In-Person Learning – KOB-TV, Albuquerque Journal, KUNM News Starting today, Mon. April 5, all Albuquerque Public Schools students are able to return to the classroom in person for the first time in over a year. In-person learning is optional for the district’s students. KOB-TV reports the number of APS students expected to return to buildings this week varies, with some schools expecting to see all of their students, and others only about a quarter. APS is allowing families flexibility this week to make a final decision about whether their students will remai...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Classrooms across Albuquerque Public Schools have been prepared for students’ return. Some classes that require close contact will have plexiglass dividers. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal) Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Highland High School band director Josephine Gonzales knows there will be hurdles when students return to school today. But that hasn’t tempered her noticeable e...

Parents are concerned about how APS will return to school Share Updated: 6:19 PM MDT Mar 15, 2021 Share Updated: 6:19 PM MDT Mar 15, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript I’M BRITTANY HOPE AND I’M RON BURKE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT COMES A THOUSANDS OF TEACHERS AND PARENTS ARE PREPARING FOR APS TO RING IN THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR IN THREE WEEKS, BUT WE LEARNED THERE ARE SOME PARENTS WHO ARE NOT GOING TO SEND THEIR KIDS BACK AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FEARS OF THEIR CHILDREN CATCHING COVID. EMAILS LIKE THIS HAVE MANY APS PARENTS CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT SCHOOL WILL BE LIKE ...