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In 2019, Rabbi Jennie Rosenn a veteran of the Jewish nonprofit world founded Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action. In March 2021, Steven Spielberg selected the organization, which has quickly sprung into the center of the vibrant climate justice movement, to receive a portion of his million-dollar Genesis Prize. Arielle Silver-Willner: What drove you to start. Read more »
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In 1988, when many people were ignoring ecologists, Rabbi Ellen Bernstein founded Shomrei Adamah (Keepers of the Earth), the first Jewish ecological organization in the U.S. Rabbi Bernstein sought to draw attention to the “ecological heart” of Judaism. Arielle Silver-Willner: You describe the ecological crisis as a “spiritual crisis.” How do you connect Judaism, feminism. Read more »
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Riva Lehrer has spent her entire career creating art of people with disabilities or body differences, despite receiving constant rejections from galleries.
Lehrer, an art instructor at both Northwestern and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, works with the âsocially challenged body,â anyone whose body is deemed unacceptable by outside forces, whether that be people with disabilities, people of color or queer people who are threatened because of how they present themselves.
For the last six years, Lehrer has worked on her memoir, âGolem Girl,â which tells her story of growing up with spina bifida. The book won the Barbellion Prize for ill and disabled voices in writing and is a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
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