by Annie Wolock | Mar 2, 2026 | Climate
By Lauren I. Zinn, Ph.D., Rev. How do we teach our children in the religious school classroom about climate care and maintain connection to our community? In addition to how we teach through drama, art, games, etc, we must also consider what we teach and the...
by Annie Wolock | Mar 2, 2026 | Climate
What’s Really Going on in JFS’s Kitchen: Fighting Climate and Rising Prices By JFS staff member When looking at the USDA food price outlook, the current trend is an uncomfortable increase in recent years due to inflation, with products costing 27.09 percent more than...
by Annie Wolock | Mar 2, 2026 | Climate
Persuading the “Other” Adam: What Rav Soloveitchik Can Teach Us By Rabbi Nadav Caine, Beth Israel Congregation For thousands of years, Jewish commentators have offered various interpretations of the two Adam’s of Genesis. In chapter one, Adam is created in the image...
by Annie Wolock | Jan 30, 2026 | Climate
Interview of Eva Solomon by Annie Wolock, A2J CC On any given weekend in southeast Michigan, hundreds of runners line up for a race: bibs pinned, sneakers tied, and hearts pumping. What most participants never see is the quiet, intentional work happening behind the...
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...
