by Annie Wolock | Jan 30, 2026 | Climate
Tu B’Shevat In the dead of winter, I walk in a valley of trees, under boughs bare and brittle, amid deer-browsed bark, and caw of crows. In the middle of Shevat, in the middle of snow, in the midst of twilight, at the end and in the beginning of a new year for trees,...
by Annie Wolock | Jan 30, 2026 | Climate
By Phil Barr, Temple Beth Emeth, Co-Chair Grounds, Genesis of Ann Arbor The ice and snowstorms of February 2023 left Ann Arbor streets littered with debris for months. Out of that destruction, the Genesis Native Michigan Plants Garden was born this past spring. Why...
by Annie Wolock | Dec 29, 2025 | Climate
By: Rena Basch, Michael Simon, and Annie Wolock for Ann Arbor Jewish Climate Circle The Ann Arbor Jewish Climate Circle (A2J CC) is a coalition of Washtenaw County Jewish organizations with its “home” under the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) umbrella. The...
by Annie Wolock | Dec 29, 2025 | Climate
By Rabbi Josh Whinston, Temple Beth Emeth Probably the best-known Jewish teaching on the climate crisis comes from Kohelet Rabbah, a collection of midrashim on Ecclesiastes. In Kohelet Rabbah 7:13, we read: “When the Holy One blessed be God created Adam, the first...
by Annie Wolock | Dec 29, 2025 | Climate
By Shoshannah Lenski, City of Ann Arbor Executive Director, Sustainable Energy Utility I have always felt most connected to Jewish tradition through teva, or nature. I suspect I owe that connection to childhood summer camp, where daily services were held outdoors,...
