Bibliography

Books of interest

• Trees, Earth and Torah: a Tu B’shvat anthology, edited by Ari Elon, Naomi Mara Hyman and Arthur Waskow (Jewish Publication Society: 1999)
• The Way into Judaism and the Environment. Jeremy Benstein. (Jewish Lights: 2006)
• The Splendor of Creation : a biblical ecology. Ellen Bernstein.
• Ecology and the Jewish Spirit: where nature and the sacred meet, edited by Ellen Bernstein. (Jewish Lights: 1998)
• Let the Earth Teach You Torah, Ellen Bernstein and Dan Fink (Shomrei Adamah: 1992)
• Spirit in Nature: teaching Judaism and Ecology on the trail, Matt Biers-Ariel, Deborah Newbrun, Michal Fox Smart (Behrman House: 2000)
• The Land: place as gift, promise and challenge in biblical faith, Walter Brueggemann (Fortress Press: 1973)
• To Till and To Tend: a guide to Jewish environmental study and action, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
• Caring for the Cycle of Life: creating environmentally sound life-cycle celebrations (COEJL: Judaism and the environment, Manfred Gerstenfeld. (Institute of the World Jewish Congress: 2001)
• Judaism, Environmentalism, and the Environment: Mapping and Analysis. Manfred Gerstenfeld (Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies: Rubin, Mass. 1998)
• Judaism and Ecology : a Hadassah study guide in cooperation with Shomrei Adamah, Keepers of the Earth.
• The Natural History of the Bible: an environmental exploration of the Hebrew scriptures, Daniel Hillel (Columbia University Press: 2006)
• The Ecological Message of the Torah : knowledge, concepts, and laws which made survival in a land of “milk and honey” possible. Aloys Hüttermann (Scholars Press: 1999)
• The Jewish Sourcebook on the Environment and Ecology, Ronald Isaacs. (Jason Aronson: 1998)
• The Environment and Jewish Law: essays and responsa, edited by Walter Jacob and Moshe Zemer (Berghahn Books: 2003)
• Who Renews Creation, edited by Earl Schwartz and Barry Cytron (United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: Department of Youth Activities: 1995)
• Judaism and Ecology, edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Harvard University Press: 2002)
• Judaism and Environmental Ethics: a reader, edited by Martin D. Yaffe (Lexington Books: 2001)
• Torah of the Earth : exploring 4,000 years of ecology in Jewish thought. edited by Arthur Waskow (Jewish Lights: 2000)

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DRUID HILL PARK: Jewish Baltimore’s Green Oasis 1920-1960

By Barry Kessler

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Videos of Interest:

The Future of Food

Black Diamonds – mountain top removal

Kilowatt Ours – electricity production

King Corn

Bullfrog Films – producers of a variety of educational films