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Jewish leaders need to step up on climate change The Jewish world’s environmentalist engagement of three decades ago is overdue for a revival. Photo by Karsten Winegeart/Unsplash/Creative Commons February 3, 2021 (RNS) — As the Biden administration gears up to combat climate change, I’d like to see the leaders of my religious community at the forefront of those rallying to the cause.  It’s not as if the Jewish rank and file are unconcerned. Back in 2014, a PRRI survey found that fully 78% of us consider climate change either “a crisis” or “a major problem” — t...

The Exile to Come It is often said that the foundation of the state of Israel represents “ Reishit Tzmichat Geulateinu,” the first flowering of our redemption, the long-awaited bookend to close out the centuries of Jewish exile that began in the year 70 AD with the sacking of the Temple in Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans. It is pretty to think of Israel as such, but it is almost certainly untrue. It is more likely that the first flowering of our redemption will turn out to have been a false budding, the sort that happens on an unseasonably warm day at the end of winter when the plant...