Faith is Green: Jewish Life and Planet Earth

Apr 22, 2021 - 9:00 pm EDT - 10:00 pm EDT

Hazon is partnering with EarthxTV to produce Faith is Green: Jewish Life and Planet Earth.
This six-part series premiered on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2021 with our first episode, Jews and the Land.

The first and second episodes are now available free & on demand on the EarthX website!

watch on demand here

This brand new original series details how we can all strive to create a more environmentally sustainable world through observance of Jewish values such as respect, fairness, responsibility, and community.

Episode 1: Jews and the Land – How Jews are connecting and reconnecting to the land through farming, nature education, ritual, and more.

Featuring:

  • Talia Chain | Founder, Sadeh
  • Micha Chetrit | Farmer/Co-Founder of The Midbar Project
  • Risa Alyson Cooper | Executive Director, Shoresh
  • Yosef Gillers | Co-Executive Director, GrowTorah
  • Rabbi Zelig Golden | Executive Director, Wilderness Torah
  • Shani Mink | Executive Director, Jewish Farmer Network
  • Shamu Sadeh | Director of Education at Isabella Freedman, Hazon
  • Nigel Savage | Founder and CEO, Hazon

Episode 2: The Jewish Calendar, Planet Earth, and the Climate CrisisA reflection on the ways that Jewish holidays and cycles of time are informing the Jewish environmental movement. 

Featuring:

  • Dr. Jeremy Benstein | Heschel Center for Sustainability and 929
  • Rabbi Jill Hammer | Academy for Jewish Religion
  • Sara Just-Michael | Grow Torah
  • Dr. Adriane Leveen | HUC-JIR, New York
  • Nigel Savage | Hazon
  • Jonathan Schorsch | Green Sabbath Project
  • Yoshi Silverstein | Mitsui Collective

view the series page