Speakers in appearance order
(Top left-to-right and then bottom left-to right)
"To Care, To Know, and To Do"
Responding Jewishly to Israeli and Global Environmental Crises
What are Jewish teachings about environmental issues and how can they be applied to reduce current and future global environmental problems?
Speakers: mostly in alphabetic order (by first name).
Akiva Wolff
Akiva Wolff is Research Director of the Center for Judaism and the Environment
at the Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev):
www.besr.org/environment.html,
where he lectures on environmental engineering.
He has been studying Jewish sources relating to the environment for the past 12 years in various Jerusalem yeshivot
and kollelim. He has an MA in Energy and Environmental Studies and a BSc in Soil Science.
Before moving to Israel, he worked as a program director for the New York City Recycling Department
and an environmental consultant for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental
Quality Engineering. Publications include:
Jewish Perspectives on Genetic Engineering
(Tishrei 5762, October 2001)
wolff@mail.jct.ac.il and
keith@netmedia.net.il
Professor Benyamin Ish-Shalom
Rector - Bet Morasha Jerusalem and Board Chairman - Institute for Jewish Studies
(conversion institute sponsored by the Government of Israel and the Jewish Agency).
Author of "Rav Kook: Between Rationalism and Mysticism"
(Am Oved Publishers, State University of New York Press)
bmj@bmj.org.il
Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik
Rav, Congregation Ohr Shalom and Congregation Ahava v'Simcha in Ramat Beit Shemesh
Rebbe, Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim
pcsolo@shemesh.co.il
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld is a leading expert on Judaism and the environment.
He lectures and publishes extensively on the subject, in Israel and abroad.
He is an internationally renowned environmental expert and international business consultant
to the senior ranks of multi-national corporations.
Dr. Gerstenfeld has extensive background in Jewish public affairs.
He is Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA),
is Co-Chair of the Judaism Task Force of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature,
Co-Publisher of the Jerusalem Letter/Viewpoints and Co-Publisher of
Jewish Environmental Perspectives.
Dr. Gerstenfeld's Web site,
including some of his extensive work on Judaism and Environment
manfredg@netvision.net.il
Prof. Nachum Rakover
Founder and President, Jewish Legal Heritage Society (Moreshet ha Mishpat be Israel).
Former Deputy Attorney General of the State of Israel.
Former Advisor to the Knesset on Jewish Law.
Former Professor of Law, Bar Ilan University
Protection of the Environment in Judaism. Sources (Quotes) - in English
jewishl@zahav.net.il
Prof. Richard H. Schwartz
Professor Emeritus, Mathematics, College of Staten Island
2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10314, Room 1S-106
Author of books: Judaism and Vegetarianism, Judaism and Global Survival, and
Mathematics and Global Survival
(718) 761-5876 FAX: (718) 982-3631
RSchw12345@aol.com
jewishveg.com/schwartz
Web site with over 100 articles
Also:
What Diet does G-d Prefer for People
Judaism of Global Survival (Chapter 4): Ecology
Judaism of Global Survival (Chapter 5): Environmental Issues in Israel
Rabbi Prof. Yehuda (Leo) Levi
Rector Emeritus, Jerusalem College of Technology, where he also headed the
Department of Physics/Electo-Optics. He has been a President of the American Orthodox Jewish Scientists
both in the USA and Israel. Professor Levi has been a pioneer in the field of Judaism and the Environment since the 1970's
levileo@mail.jct.ac.il
Rabbi Ze'ev Chaim Lifshitz
Founder and Director of Sadnat Enosh Torah Guidance Center
(includes a Yeshiva, and an educational and marriage councelling center).
Former right hand and talmid muvhak for ten years to Rav Yehiel Weinberg Z"L ("Sefer Sereider Aish").
Former student in psychology of Jean Piaget and his assistant for six years.
Founded a unique Jewish school of psychology and is an internationally recognized authority in the field.
Papers on conference site (additional papers, books and recordings via Sadnat Enosh):
Your Camp Shall Be Sacred
The Four Sacred Cows of Democracy
eMails via Mr. Binyamin Nathan
b_nathan@netvision.net.il
Rabbi Yitzhok Lifshitz
Rav Yitzhok Lifshitz is a graduate of Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem,
and has studied under his father, continuing the family rabbinical tradition
of transmitting Torah from father to son.
He heads the Rabeinu Ya'akov Yehiel Yeshiva, under the auspicies of Sadnat Enosh.
He has developed unique perspectives on a number of halachic issues and is author of
Razah Shabat, an investigation into the fundamental halachic terminologies of Shabat
from a conceptual and ideological perspective.
Rav Lifshitz has a broad background in science, psychology, and other secular fields,
and is presently senior research fellow in the Shalem Center (Jerusalem).
senosh@netvision.net.il
Jan 26, 2004