Judaism and Global SurvivalLantern Books, 2002 - 252 pages This book is designed to show that both Jews and non-Jews don't need to discover new values and approaches to solving the crisis of environmental loss and planetary despoliation; what is needed, instead, is a rediscovery of basic Jewish teachings and mandates, such as to seek and pursue peace, justice, to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to act as co-workers with God in protecting and preserving the world. In such a way, Richard Schwartz calls for a new vision of the world--one that ensures our personal, interpersonal, and global survival. |
Table des matières
INVOLVEMENT AND PROTEST | 1 |
HUMAN RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS | 11 |
SOCIAL JUSTICE | 25 |
ECOLOGY | 37 |
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN ISRAEL | 55 |
HUNGER | 67 |
PEACE | 81 |
INTERNATIONAL CONCERNS | 97 |
CONCLUSION | 177 |
AFTERWORD | 181 |
ACTION IDEAS | 185 |
MISCELLANEOUS BACKGROUND MATERIAL | 189 |
GUIDE TO JEWISH ACTIVIST GROUPS | 193 |
GENERAL GROUPS INVOLVED WITH GLOBAL ISSUES | 201 |
JEWISH PUBLICATIONS | 203 |
NOTES | 207 |
ENERGY | 117 |
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE | 133 |
POPULATION GROWTH | 145 |
VEGETARIANISMA GLOBAL IMPERATIVE? | 161 |
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 235 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Abraham Joshua Heschel agriculture American animals bal tashchit Biblical blessing cause commandment compassion concern Congregations conservation consumption countries created destruction Deuteronomy developing diet earth eat meat ecological economic environment environmental ethical fertility Frances Moore Lappé fuel Genesis global warming God's grain groups Hebrew Heschel Holy human hungry Ibid increase injustice involved Isaiah Israel Israeli issues Jason Aronson Jerusalem Jewish community Jewish population Jewish teachings Jewish tradition Jewish values Jews justice Kook land Lappé Leviticus live Lord Maimonides major mandate Midrash million Mishnah nations needs neighbor Northvale nuclear peace percent person Pirke Avot plants policies pollution poor population growth poverty problems production prophets protest Psalms reduce religious renewable energy righteousness Samson Raphael Hirsch Sanhedrin scientists Shabbat social society soft energy path stranger Sukkot Synagogue Talmud Talmudic sages threats Tikkun Olam tion Torah tzedakah vegetarian waste World Hunger York