Seasonal Recipe: Tomato Toast

By Joelle Abramowitz Purchase your tomatoes at any local farmer’s market or harvest from your backyard! This month’s seasonal recipe is for tomato toast. In-season local tomatoes are the perfect balance of sweet, acidic, and umami flavors, a completely different...

Beth Israel’s Mission Mishkan Featured Nationally

By Michael S. Simon This year, Beth Israel Congregation (BIC) was one of six Jewish organizations featured in Adamah’s Jewish Climate Leadership “Coalition Counting the Omer” Project (https://adamah.org/climate/coalition/counting-the-omer/), which celebrated climate...

What the Three Weeks Ask of the Climate-Privileged

By Rachel Jacobson, Lead Researcher, State Climate Policy Summer is my favorite season. I love swimming outdoors, the freedom of running around in shorts and a t-shirt, and the abundance of daylight for outdoor activities. And so, I have always struggled with the...

Data Centers, AI, and Water Usage

Mike Shriberg, Director of University of Michigan Water Center As a steering committee member of the Ann Arbor Jewish Climate Circle and an environmental professional, I believe that we in the Jewish community have a responsibility to be good stewards of our planet....