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Noga Levy-Raporport, 17, is one of the core organisers of a growing youth protest movement against climate change
January 16, 2024, 11:21 am
‘War’ among children’s words of the year due to Israel-Hamas conflict
The word was picked by a total of 31% of children according to Oxford University Press, while 24% went with “coronation”.
By Jewish News Reporter
Chief-Rabbi-at-Carbon-Zero-event
September 29, 2023, 3:02 pm
Chief Rabbi to attend COP28 global climate change conference in United Arab Emirates
Ephraim Mirvis has been invited to speak at the first faith pavilion of its kind in Dubai in November
By Michelle Rosenberg
September 22, 2023, 11:36 am
Senior rabbi criticises ‘selfish’ Sunak over climate change reverse
Following PM's announcement, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg writes: 'I don’t understand why he has no conscience about short-term decisions which help destroy our children’s future.'
By Lee Harpin
June 29, 2023, 10:52 am
All change: Jewish filmmaker gets stuck into climate activism
'Waste man' Josh Appignanesi makes an autobiographical documentary about his new passion
By Sarah Miller
Holocaust refugees Howard and Lotte Marcus, a couple from Long Island, who donated $500 million in 2016 to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). Credit: Ben-Gurion University
January 26, 2023, 1:16 pm
Who Are the Marcuses? Meet the couple who made largest-ever donation to Israel
The documentary on Holocaust refugees Howard and Lotte Marcus, who gave £403million to Israel, will screen at an international film festival next month.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
The research done in the past 10 years by Prof. Iftach Yacoby and his team at Tel Aviv University revolves around harvesting green hydrogen from algae, stemming from the energy process of photosynthesis. Credit: Iftach Yacoby
November 14, 2022, 1:18 pm
Israeli scientists find energy from algae could revolutionise transportation
While 'green' hydrogen is recognised as an energy source with huge potential it is yet to play a key factor in energy consumption worldwide
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Archbishop Rowan Williams leads other world religious leaders gathered on Parliament Hill in London.
November 13, 2022, 7:16 pm
Religious leaders join world-first interfaith ceremony on climate change
Organiser Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein said he hoped the day’s ceremony would set a precedent for future events.
By Jewish News Reporter
The aftermath of a fire at Shirley Hills in Croydon, England, on 19 July 2022, the hottest day in the country's history
July 21, 2022, 2:09 pm
UK Rabbis: this week’s heatwave offers nightmarish glimpse of future
Cross-denominational rabbinic group are urging British Jews to push their synagogues and MPs to meet net zero carbon target
By Jewish News Reporter
The arrest of Rabbi Jeffrey Newman Protest in The City, London Extinction Rebellion’s October Rebellion, London, 2019 Photo by Paul Powlesland
June 9, 2022, 12:57 pm
Israeli study: Climate change is bringing expected storms – but 60 years early
Study by the Weizmann Institute of Science, in the Nature Climate Change journal, uses 30 massive, intricate computer networks to better model and predict climate change.
By Jewish News Reporter
Rabbi Mark with Dr Michal Nachamy, Marie van der Zyl, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg and Rabbi David Mason
November 5, 2021, 12:11 pm
The rabbi on the frontline for climate change
As part of the steering group of EcoSynagogue, Rabbi Mark Goldsmith was at the Glasgow COP26 climate summit, and this is why…
President Isaac Herzog speaking at Jewish News' Aliyah 100 reception in Tel Aviv, 2018
October 20, 2021, 6:01 pm
Herzog announces new Israeli forum to consider climate crisis
Politicians, academics and business leaders will meet regularly at the presidential palace to discuss how Israel can respond to climate change
By Jewish News Reporter
Front view of small child holding placard poster on landfill, environmental pollution concept.
October 8, 2021, 2:45 pm
Torah for Today: Climate change
Rabbi David Mason takes a topical issue and offers and Orthodox perspective
By Rabbi David Mason
The group set off from London on 5 September and hope to reach Glasgow by 30 October
September 23, 2021, 2:16 pm
And I would walk 500 miles! Man treks to Scotland for climate change awareness
Stephen Marcus is walking 500 miles from London to Glasgow and hopes to arrive in Scotland ahead of the COP26 climate change summit
By Josh Salisbury
XR Jewish activists
December 12, 2020, 12:49 pm
Progressively Speaking: Young people are leading the fight on climate change
 Isla Casson takes a topical issue and offers a progressive response
By Isla Casson
December 6, 2020, 11:14 am
Tamara Finkelstein: ‘We need to get more ambitious on climate change’
The head of Defra is helping pave the way for a much greener future. We chat to her over Zoom about the impact of the pandemic, cutting emissions and international co-operation
By Francine Wolfisz
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