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Planting trees (Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash)

January 29, 2026, 2:35 pm

How can we turn Jewish tradition and growing environmental awareness into action? Looking into the latest data might help.

By Omri Gal Kornblum

January 23, 2026, 3:31 pm

How climate action can strengthen our community

Taking environmental responsibility seriously has the potential to strengthen Jewish identity, participation and long-term communal resilience

By Dr Jonathan Boyd

January 7, 2026, 2:16 pm

OPINION: Climate change has become a defining business test of tikkun olam

As carbon markets mature, companies and investors can turn the idea of 'repairing the world' into practical, scalable economic action, writes Ornit Shinar

By Ornit Shinar

The Jordan River, running into the Dead Sea, center. (Picture: NASA/Barry Wilmore)

November 10, 2025, 12:10 pm

Water as a way towards Middle East peace

EcoPeace envisages using energy creation and desalination as the foundation for stronger ties between countries in the region

By Gideon Bromberg

November 6, 2025, 10:50 am

International Jewish eco-coalition urges real change from COP30 conference

The 30th iteration of the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference will shortly begin in Brazil

By Daniel Sugarman

Hurricane Melissa. Pic: Anash.org/Twitter/X

November 4, 2025, 11:09 am

The climate risks we live with and the hope we need

The climate crisis may not be a uniquely Jewish problem, but our tradition has a lot to say about it

By Rafi Addlestone

Solar panels stretch across a desert landscape. Photo: Public domain / Rawpixel

October 9, 2025, 4:34 pm

OPINION: Sowing regional seeds of hope

Leaders from across the Middle East met near Paris to design cross-border solutions for food and water security - proving cooperation, not conflict, can shape the region’s future

By Eli Bar-On, Dr Najah Al Otaibi and Ghanem Nuseibeh

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

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

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