Voice of the Trees is the Newsletter of ShomreiAdamah /ill:l-m '1/:l'lt!l 1Keepers of the Earth • Church Road &Greenwood Avenue • Wyncote, PA 19095 • (215) 887-1988

Why was the first human being At the called Adam? Yehuda says: Introduction By virtue of the Adamah (earth) from which Adam was taken. Homestead Midrash Hagadol B'reishit

SHOMREI ADAMAH: technological achievement. Today, RENEWING ,JEWISH the greatest environmental ECOLOGICAL WISDOM challenge is to create a movement, Mission a way of life that touches the values of all humans, that is sustainable, The mission of Shomrei Adamah/ and that engages groups of Keepers of the Earth is to inspire diverse people. The have environmental awareness and religious traditions thousands of years experience Judy Dornstreich Interview practice among Jews by unlocking teaching values, organizing cultures, to environmental concerns. Shomrei the treasure of ancient Jewish April 7, 1991 and sustaining beliefs and peoples. Adamah integrates thought, Since 1979, Judy, her husband Mark ecological wisdom. Shomrei emotion, spirit and action in WhyaJewlah and their 4 children have been living Adamah serves its members: engaging people to become Environmental Organization? and working on a 20 acre organic , educators, students, environmental citizens. farm in Perkasie PA. Mark had been environmentalists, youth; seminaries embodies a 3000 year old • There is a need to offer vision and working as an anthropologist and and a network of affiliate groups environmental ethic and a viable provide a context to the work of Judy as a counselling psychologist across America with authentic practice of stewardsh!p. environmentalists. Shomrei Adamah when they realized that they would traditional sources, curricula, Unfortunately, that environmental strengthens and makes meaningful wisdom has laid dormant for several rather be farming. GR publications, speakers, a newsletter the work and commitment of Jewish and "green " suggestions. generations. Shomrei Adamah environmentalists. Greg: Has your practice of Judaism Why a Religious revives, invigorates, and extends the • The same societal forces that are changed over the years? Environmental Organization? Judaic system of ecological thought, responsible for destruction of ..Judy: I was raised in a Conservative At the heart of the environmental ethics, spirit and practice, and ecosystems also cause the shul. I went to Hebrew school from crisis is a crisis in values. As a involves the Jewish community in 'degeneration of human cultural when I was 8 years old until I was 12, culture·we have grown out of touch environrrlental affairs. systems. Shomrei Adamah but I didn't want a Bat Mitzvah, and with nature, and sacrificed the Why Sllomrel Adamah? revitalizes Judaism as it connects didn't have one. When I was a wonder and riches of the natural •There is a spiritual need for Jews to their Biblical imperative to teenager I was a member of the local world to material gain and Shomrei Adamah's unique approach guard the earth. United Synagogue Youth group. I'd go to synagogue for social activities. Religiously, though, it seemed hollow Shomrel Adamah and a bit Launches New pompous. It In the appeared that Newsletter everyone was Welcome to the first issue of rnb~il':)'p, just "going the newsletter of Shomrei Adamah! The Market through the membership of Shomrei Adamah motions". No real embodies a tremendous amount of More Than Everything • How much pollution is caused by the spiritual teaching Jewish, ecological and organizing You Ever Wanted to manufacturing and disposal processes? came through my wisdom. We hope this newsletter will In support of the use of early education. recycle that wisdom back among the Know About Styrofoam polystyrene: Greg: So, you were membership. We aim to inspire you with A number of congregations have • Since polystyrene can be crushed to looking for spiritual our feature articles, inform you about begun to implement Shornrei a smaller volume than paper, it poses teaching, and couldn't Shomrei Adamah activities, and Adamah's "green synagogue" less of a short-term problem in over­ get it there? energize you with suggestions for suggestions to stop using polystyrene filling our ~andfills. ..Judy: No, I definitely wasn't looking action. Each issue will carry an (known by its Dow Chemical trade • Nationally, there are a small handful for it. But I wasn't exposed to it either. interview with someone committed to name, "Styrofoam") products. Upon of "model" programs for one-time I had a strong Jewish identity in my becoming a Shomer or Shomeret bringing this suggestion to synagogue collection and reprocessing of used home. It just was not connected with Adamah, a "keeper of the earth". Let us Boards, many Shornrei Adamah Styrofoam into other products such as a spiritual kind of teaching. know if you have an interesting story. affiliates have met with unforeseen offic.e equipment, We have plans to add a young people's Greg: Was that enough to keep you battles with Board members. They furniture, hange~s and insert to the newsletter, and welcome actively connected to Judaism? · have requested supporting information video cassette tapes. your contributions to that section. about the use (or non-use) of (These programs are ..Judy: There was a long period of Many of you reading ·these words are polystyrene cups vs. disposable time when I really wasn't interested in being sponsored by ·not members of Shomrei Adamah, paper cups vs. reusable cups. What the plastics industry Judaism. I didn't go to synagogue or because this first issue has been mailed follows is the result of my research into have any practice. in response to to a wide audience. Future luuea, this complicated subject. GR attempts to What brought you back into Greg: however, will be mailed only to discourage plastics active contact with Judaism? The comparison between paper and current members of Sllomrel use.) Judy: At a certain point, I think when Adamah. So if you want to keep Styrofoam cups is complex, and there is disagreement over whether I was pregnant with my first child, I informed, fill out the membership And against paper: realized that I knew more about form on the back page, and send polystyrene is definitely worse than • The coating used Hinduism than Judaism. I was· more It In with this year's membership paper. In evaluating the environmental in disposable paper impact of each product we focusep on familiar with Sanskrit than Hebrew. I contribution! Shomrei Adamah exists cups renders them knew that I wanted my child to have a because of the generosity of our members. three areas of concern: non-recyclable. Jewish connection. We encourage you to reprint articles • Can it be recycled - • Paper production from this newsletter in your synagogue collected and re­ isn't a particularly Greg: How did you become familiar processed into the "clean" industry; with Sanskrit and Hinduism? or other community bulletin. We invite you to submit articles, essays, same type of most paper production releases ..Judy: At some point I started product (drinking dioxin, an extremely toxic chemical, practicing Hatha Yoga, poetry, artwork and suggestions to nlP~i1 ~. This newsletter is a medium cups into drinking into the environment. because I had for sharing ideas and insights; you are cups, etc)? • Recent studies indicate that though the source of those insights. With your • If it is not recycled, is paper, unlike polystyrene, will break contribution, we can keep this newsletter it biodegradable - will it break down down in landfills, the process takes lively! into environmentally safe components much longer than initially believed. when exposed to the elements? Please turn to page 6 @ ~INTED ON RECYCLED PAPER The results of our latest survey, from Henry and which was mailed out with our last Edith Everett. The Completion of Prl Elz ,...,1\oanalatlon ! fundraising letter. are in! The Everetts' contribution Miles Krassen, PhD,. has completed the translation of the membership ofShomrei Adamah is a matching grant. Pri Etz Hadar(Fruit of the -Goodly Tree), the 16th century made four clear choices in response We welcome your Kabbalistic text for Tu ~'Sh'vat(Jewish New Year of the to the ques!ion "What tasks should contributions to this Trees) which is the basis of the Tu B'Sh 'vat seder. Shomrei Adamah focus on?" effort- you can Couched in a system of obscure, multi-layered symbols, • Judaism and Ecology manual for give to this project this text embodies a Kabbalistic perspective on the Congregations and double your relationship between humans and nature. Though not • Curriculum Development money! accessible to the general reader, this translation will be • Rabbinic Institute on Judaism and BOOK OUTLINE an important resource for serious Judaic scholarship, and we hope that its Ecology • Jewish Perspectives on Nature insights will inspire other, more accessible works. Shomrei Adamah is • Newsletter throughout history. proud to have commissioned this important project, and we congratulate We are taking your suggestions to • Psalms/Poetry/Art-Nature in the Jewish Miles on its completion! He is now seeking an academic publisher, and heart, ·and have made these four Tradnion we hope to have it available by Tu B'Sh'vat 1992. projects the focus of our activities for • Ecology and Global Environmental Issues the next Mo years here at the office. • "Green• Programs for Thanks to everyone who took time to • Action Ideas/Incentives/What You Can Do fill out and return the SIJrvey. . Your • The New York Bioregion and What You input is critical in defining the CanDo direction of Shomrei Adamah. If you've been thinking for years (or even days) about one of these areas, now is the time to really explore, research and exercise your creativity by writing a piece for this book! Sho,.,.l Adamah Outreach Shomrei Adamah's Outreach· Curriculum ProJect Program is composed of many Shomrei Adamah has just completed different components: a year long pilot p.rogram of our new • Newsletter high school curriculum. We will • Membership and affiliate services release the curriculum in the Fall of and consulting: 1991, if all goes well (ie. funding). The • Shomrei Adamah services about 16 unit curriculum, written by Rabbi 50 requests per week for Dan Rnk and conceived and information, advice and materials. produced by Ellen Bernstein, explores • Shomrei Adamah has helped biological and ecological concepts numerous s~udents prepare for like interdependence, community and their BarJBat Mitzvah presentations. co-evolution within the context of • Shomrei Adamah has consulted Jewish tradition and values. with several communities in their The curriculum has received rave plans for conferences on reviews. Reviewers from across Religion/Judaism and the North America have made Environment comments such as: N.. .includes • Shomrei Adamah materials have exposure to Jewish spirituality largely also been distributed through the lacking in much of our [other Religious Action Center of the Reform movement; artieles have curricula]"; N •• quite full, engaging for me as a reader, and exciting•; and Na appeared in terrific catalyst for bridging the old Magazine, Conservative Judaism, with the new". According to Chris Jewi$h Monthly, Melton Journal, Taranta, winner of the Christie Compass Magazine, Environmental McCullough award for science Ethics and New Menorah. teaching, NThe curriculum is at its • This past fall, Rebecca Lillian core an intellectual masterpiece." initiated Shomrei Adamah's pilot Though targeted at a high school outreach program to all Jewish audience, it may also be used in a congregations in Philadelphia. A variety of settings, such as college Shomrei Adamah staff member campuses or adult education visits with the rabbi, social action classes. Secular high schools may chair, or educator and presents • Coalitions: Shomrei Adamah has also be interested in the material as various environmental project WHO'S MINDING THE OFFICE? collaborated on various projects part of a multi-cultural curriculum. possibilities, such as recycling Our office staff consists of three with the Religious Action Center, Ellen is exploring this possibility with programs, composting, Tu people: Central Committee of American the Ministry of Education in Toronto B'Sh'vat celebrations and • Ellen Bernstein is Founder Rabbis, Jewish Theological and the NY Board of Education. increased energy efficiency. The and Executive Director. She Seminary, B'nai Brith Youth Units of the curriculum have already goal is for each congregation to directs, plans, and supervises Organization, the Melton Center, appeared in Compass Magazine. adopt one new environmental projects, edits and produces our Local and National Earth Day, Current Shomrei Adamah members commitment for the coming year. books and publications, and is Green Congress, Cathedral of St. can receive a complementary issue This commitment is tailored to the involved in fundraising and John the Divine and numerous of the next Melton Journal, which particular needs of each development, public relations interfaith conferences and includes one unit of the curriculum. congregation. and networking. endeavors. Contact us if you'd like a copy. • The New York Board of Rabbis is • Greg Robbins is Outreach supporting Shomrei Adamah by • Resolutions: The Seattle Shomrei Director. He manages the sending out Shomrei Adamah Adamah affiliate and the Chicago Speakers' Bureau, consults with materials to their 1100-member Jewish Reconstructionist local affiliate groups, edits this board. Thank you! Congregation/Shomrei Adamah newsletter and oversees special affiliate have drafted resolutions. ou!-reach projects. He is also The Seattle Shomrei Adamah the local computer whiz. affiliate has been working with the • Orlt Netter is Office Manager, National Jewish Community and handles services to Relations Council on their members. She answers most of resolutions. the requests that come to the office, and is working on a comprehensive annotated index to our resource bank. Orit will Resource Manual for • Shomrei Adamah has sponsored be leaving us soon for graduate Congregations hundreds of presentations through school. Shomrei Adamah is developing a the Speakers' Bureau. resource manual for congregations • Shomrei Adamah has initiated which will explore the human relationships with Camp Tawonga, relationship with nature as understood Brandeis and Camp Ramah. by the Jewish tradition. We are A Shomrei Adamah associate in seeking writers and artists for this Seattle has analyzed camp project. If you are interested in administration and reviewed contributing, please contact Ellen programs from an ecological/ Bernstein. economic perspective and deter­ This project is being made mined ways to save camps $3000 possible by a generous contribution while growing ecologically sound.

2 SPRING 1991 products. At another affiliate group's Shabbat gathering, a representative of T~ee.People spoke, and a tree planting p1cn1c was held shortly thereafter. FARTHER AFIELD Plans are in the works to train What I Learned in a Rain volunteers to perform environmental Forest on Mr Honeymoon audits of local Jewish institutions. • Chicago, IL: An affiliate group Cindy Kohn Gabriel and Rabbi Jack has produced an "environmental" or Schectman Gabriel had the good "Bal Tashchit" ("do not destroy") fortune to honeymoon in Costa Rica. column for synagogue and Federation One of their more exotic side trips was newsletters and for the Jewish a two day stay in a tropical rain forest. community paper. A recent column What follows are Jack's thoughts about encouraged the experience. congregants to The air is special in "Los Pulmones del use less gasoline Mundo," the Lungs of the World as by Cindy called it. You visibly perk' up, feel combining stronger. and act energized as you errands, to ma~e your way through it. The irony is Protecting Nature in Israel carpool that we humans deny ourselves so much Shomrei Adamah is working to when of this invisible healing when we collaborate with the American Society possible, to gratuitously cut forests down. Perhaps for the Protection of Nature in Israel use public trips into forests are necessary to remind (ASPNI) on various projects. If you transportation when feasible and to us how much we need them. don't already know of them. you should. tur.n off car engines while waiting for There is a tree in the forest which is They run some of the best natural children to come out of religious very inspirational. It doesn't allow history adventure treks in the world! AHiliate Group Activities school. The group is working with mosses, lichens administrators and other synagogue or any parasites Israel, the land of milk and honey, the Affiliate groups have been self­ land of the Judean and Negev deserts, seeding in congregations and personnel to help congregations to cling to it; when they try to and the land where the majestic ibex communities all around N.America become environmentally sound facilities, and has produced a dig into its bark, it roams and the short-toed eagle soars, and beyond. Affiliates initiate their pamphlet outlining ways to "green" just lets the bark has taken the lead in protecting one of own activities. Shomrei Adamah synagogue operations. drop off. the most sensitive ecosystems in the serves as a resource bank and world, the Middle East. clearinghouse for members and • West Hartford, CT: The local Wouldn't that be affiliate group joined with the anicewayto For 35 years, The Society for the affiliates. What follows is news from a ~rotection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) has few of these groups. · Community Relations Council to co- deal with destructive mv.ofved more than 750,000 individuals •Miami, FL: Temple Beth Or "The righteous would not wantonly people or 20~ of Israel's total population, in its ' conducts an environmental •kibbutz• destroy so much as a mustard seed. emotions that try to get "under our skin"! · environmental activities. Jews Arabs Christians, and Druse, young ~nd old' a~ organic gardening program, along They are grieved and oppressed The same t!'8e has giant seed pods, w1th the regular religious school. The some groWing to nine feet in length. The people, civilians, soldiers and tourists at the sight of waste and destruction. have all joined as members: making ' synagogue has planted fruit trees on If message seems to be: You can have a the property. The fruit is given to a they could save anything from greater impact on future generations if SPNI the largest voluntary membership shelter for the homeless. Beth Or has being destroyed they would do so you spend your energy on them and organization in Israel! SPNI's primary held Shabbat services at an with all their power." not on the day to day annoyances that programs focus on education, research environmentally endangered site. -Sefer H~hinuch 529 try to dig into you. a~d advocacy. SPNI works extensively They have also installed an Earth flag I also met two very special people With schools, training teachers, in their sanctuary and recommend this there, Carlos Coles and his wife · developing curricula, and coordinating to other affiliates. Interested in Earth Deb~rah K~shner. Carlos is a biologist field excursions. Rags? Contact us at the national who 1s ded1cated to teaching people the . When you next visit fsraei,'Why not office! lore and the beauty of his native land mcfude an off-the-beaten-path adventure in your itinerary? Perhaps ~Seattte, .WA: ~ecent affiliate group thr?ugh an org~zati.Qn . calle.o .J~ngf.fi sponsor a mini-conference on ~Th9t programs, which are held on the eve Trruls .. He l!3ads nature study and · take' a.rrioonlight walk in the Judean Roots of Jewish Ecology: a Tu B'Sh'vat of the new ~n •.have included guest camp1ng tnps. Carlos takes a portion of Desert, a jeep adventure along the Teach-ln. • Over 80 people attended speakers d1scussmg pesticide and your trip payment and uses it to plant Nabatean Spice Route, a hike through ranging in age from 16 to 70. The energy issues, a workshop on ·Getting endangered t~ee species. He and his Wadi Qelt or a camel trek in the Eilat keynote speaker was Jeff Sultar rid of your environmental hametZ', and wife thought of this idea in Israel where mountains. The SPNI has 26 Reid Study a Chanukah "rededication· as keepers s~kesperson for Shomrei Ada~ah. they studied Jewish values befo;e their Centers (FSC) throughout Israel that His presentation was followed by two of the earth. A city-wide Jewish youth marriage. Obviously, the lessons took. have comfortable accommodations as ~orkshop ~essions. Workshop topics rally for the environment was held, and If you want to go to a beautiful, civilized well as research facilities. There are Included: The Ecological Home" an essay contest on environmental many educated staff members and "Getting Started in Gardening". ' country and get a real sense of the principles within Judaism was forest (and Kosher meals at no extra guides who can give lectures and tours "Composting". "Chernobyl and Energy initiated. charge!) contact them at: JUNGLE for your specific needs. Policies for the 90's". and "Legislative •Washington, DC: A local affiliate TRAILS, Apartado 5941, San Jose, The American Society for the Issues". has produce~ a five minute rap video Costa Rica. Telephone is 011-{506)-55- Protection of Nature in Israel (ASPNI) • Cleveland, OH: A northeast Ohio ab?ut Genes1s and stewardship (see 3486 and fax# is.011-(506)-55-2782. was created three years ago for the affiliate has initiated a course for Iynes on page 4). A December In the forest, rain keeps falling, trees purpose of increasing the American teachers on Judaism and the program on the environmental roots of and plants keep growing, and nature public's awareness of, and support for. environment. The course is to be Chanukah was very successful. A kee~s reproducing lavishly, colorfully the critical environmental work being ' sponsored by the Cleveland Bureau of community-wide Passover seder was and Intensely. People can be like that conducted in Israel by SPNI. Jewish Education. They have also held April 6. Several outreach ~~n forest i! we keep our "rain". our inner For more information contact: initiated an intercongregationaf adult presentations to local synagogues. !u1ces, flow1ng. We can allow nurturing American Society for the Protection educ~tion course for this spring on schools and youth groups have been · In, we can put out our brightest. of Nature in Israel Juda1sm and the environment. held recently, and a course on the greenest energy, we can keep growing 330 Seventh Avenue, 21st Roor • Rio de.lanelro, Brazil: Our environment and Judaism is being and we can be sources of life to be New York, NY 10001 newest affiliate group contact Esther offered at the Jewish Study Center. admired, cherished and emulated. (212) 947-2820 Kreimer, is forming an affiliate' group at This season, this time of our first • Loa Angelea, CA: One focal her synagogue. Rabbi Nilton Bonder liberation as a people, don't be afraid to affil~ate group has produced, and is is participating as a member of the be extravagant in your coloration sell1ng, canvas shopping bags as a organization council of EC0-92, the (achievements) or growth (intensity). fundraising project. These reusable UN Conference on the Environment G-d will prune you and make you alive bags replace disposable plastic or otherwise known as the "Environ- ' beyond your wildest expectations. You paper grocery bags. For Chanukah mental Summit", scheduled to take. only need to accept water and sun and the same group sold "gift baskets• place in Brazil. He and Esther are ~utri~o~. well as the divine gifts of consisting of a selection of starter thinking about ways to introduce as 1nsp1rat1on and love we share with the sized, environmentally safe Jewish ecology as a subject at that rain forest and the rest of the world. alternatives to common household event.

Silo,.., Ad.wma BariNira Amper Su.--.ck ...,.._Gordon luac.lucl.,. Rllbbl R-llhllplro Affiliate Group Contacts 27030 Cedar Rd., Apt 608 16 Sheridan Street 12 Am Shalom 4393 Draper Ave. Temple Beth Or Cleveland, OH 44122 Jamaica Plains, MA 02130 840 Vernon Ave. Mor119al, Que. H4A 2P3 Canada P.O. Box 160081 To find out about activities in (216)921-0228, 831-2083 (617)522-0112 Glencoe, IL 60022 (514)489-7064 Miami, R. 33116 your area, you can contact the (815)338-0892 lllrt.mw,.n.. (305)235-1419 following people. Inquiries for Rabbi a..ywe~nsteln AndNII Cohen-Kelner (312)835-4800 Midrasha Hebrew High 11 Model Ave. .,.._SchHI Shomrei Adamah resources and B'nai Israel Synagogue 2921 Poplar St. 3354 Kleinert Ave. 2626 Albany Ave. Downsview, Ont M3H 1'19 CMada speakers should be directed to West Hartford, CT 06117 .lonatMn ... (416)633-6837 Philadelphia, PA 19130 Baton Rouge, LA 70806 (215)765-5239 the national office, Church Road (504)343-0111 , 766-3442 (203)2.33-6838 L'Oiam 210 Riverside Dr. David "-dee ...... _rtz and Greenv.ood Avenue, ~e. lllb'hbcw New York, NY 10025 Beit likvah Coogegation Temple ISI'ael of Hollywood PA 19095 (215}887-1988. &ric Baler 706 Erie Ave. 618 E. 34th Sl 139 Alston Ave. (212)874-6100 7300 Hollywood Blvd. Takoma Partl, MD 20912 Baltimore, MD 21218 Los Angeles, CA 90046 New Haven, CT 06515 (301 )235-8869 (203)387-4567, 787-9514 (301)587-2248 .....,Goo....__. (213)876-8330 .....,.u.. netr ...... Fink ...... , Geralcl.nd Rllbblllwjorle Slome Hug leva ...._ ...... Temple House of Israel 12A Halliwick Rd. cpllele.- Congregation Beth Elohim 397 W. Englewood Ave. 4751 w. Ruffner St. P.O. Box 1412 London N10 1AS B'nai Jehuda 8th Ave. and Garf~eld Pl. Teaneck, NJ 07666 Seallle, WA 98199-1829 Staunlon, VA 24401 ENGLAND Kansas City, MO Brooklyn, NY 11215 (201)837-8017 (206)283-3103 (703)248-7603 081-365-3232 (913)642-1315 (718)768-3841

SPRING 1991 Have You Joined Shomrei Adamah Yet? 3 RAP FOR THE PLANET (recyclable) sticker. The best by the Rappin' Rabbi information we have so far is that Barry L. Schwartz "there ain't no such animal." We of the Washington. DC therefore had to make a judgment call affiliate group on whether to use non-recycled, but recyclable "lick and stick" or recycled, but non-recyclable "peel You can order copies of this homemade Miscellaneous Notes and stick", and decided on the former. 10 minute rap on video tape from Long-Time be complete by July 1. If you are Just another example of the various Shomrei Adamah. concerns and trade-offs necessary in Members interested in receiving a copy of the I'm not in the habit of quotin' scripture being Shomrei Adamah. If you joined index, just let us know. but like I wanna make" sure you get the Shomrei Adamah Volunteer help needed! picture. before September This here Earth is our Garden of Eden, 1990, you may not but I'm really concerned 'cause it's have received our taken a beatin'. spiffy, updated So let's talk Torah; see what it says, membership packet. just might help find the sensible way. However, it can be yours! Just contact us. Adam's my name, I'm kinda special A two legged thinker - that's the Become • Member of differential. ShomreiA...,..,. There are many ways to help our work But you've got to remember we're Shomrei Adamah member benefits without having to leave your home! part of a plan, . include: • You could help us enter information One piece of a puzzle - one grain • A 40 page Jewish Environmental (articles, mailing lists) into the Sources ·of Environmentally of sand. Pack which includes liturgical, computer. You must have access to Sound Products With this here brain, there's no vacation, curricular and source materials as either a Macintosh computer or an IBM • Ecover is a full line of have to help the boss take care of well as action ideas. " compatible computer (using either environmentally safe cleaning creation.- • A 15% discount on Shomrei Adamah products available in many stores. It 31/2 or 51/4 inch diskettes). We send CHORUS: publications you the texts; you type them into your is marketed in the U.S. by Ecco Bella, • A subscription to this newsletter. computer, save the informati~ on.a 6 Provost Sq., Caldwell, NJ 07006 Genesis - Chapter two • Access to our resource bank (first 20 diskette, and send the diskette to us. • Shaklee, 444 Market St.. San in plain 'ol Hebrew; what to do! pages free, $0.10/page thereafter) • We need people to produce artwork Francisco, CA 94111, (800)426-0766, to mend and tend, to share and care. • A free copy of the upcoming issue of for our upcoming book (see article on carries an extensive line of non-toxic to sow and reap, to guard and keep the Melton Journal on Judaism and page 3) household cleaners that are sold If we mess up, now pay attention, the environment (You must reqvest • General Graphics I Calligraphy work through distributors. who'll be left to set the right direction? this from us in order to receive it). is always useful, since we are • Seventh Generation, 10 Farrell Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Shalom} 2X Memberships must be renewed yearly. St., So. Burlington, VT 05403, (802) constantly trying to develop new Noah's my name, I can tell you See the membership form on the back notecards, T-shirts. etc. 862-2999, carries a range of page for more information! recycled, non-toxic and energy first hand • If you live nearby and would like to about all that happens when violence help us in the office, let us know! efficient consumer products. • Earth Care Paper, Dept. 137, PO rules the land. ~LEASE CLIP AND POST: * * Important Note * * Box 3335, Madison, WI 53704, (608) I advise you to avoid disaster Now is the time -to check through the 256-5522, carries recycled cards, 'cause it seems to be approachin' rL;,ki.;; f;,"i ca';;, Op;,rtu"';li(tl seed catalogues and order your gourd wrapping paper, stationery and faster and faster. I Looking for a career true to your 1 seeds so you can have a crop ready computer paper. There'll be no escapin' the next : spiritual life as an environmentalist? I for decorating your Sukkah! You can • Fort Howard Corporation, eruption • Shomrei Adamah is seeking an find a large variety of gourd seeds No ark, no animals, just total I Associate Director. This is a full- 1 Green Bay, WI 54307-9130, through: Gurney's Seed and Nursery manufactures Envision, a brand of destruction! I time career position with growth 1 Co, 110 Capitol, Yankton, South I opportunities. Candidate must have I DaJ<.ata 5.70Za ______.. paper t9wels, toilet paper, etc. made Now all too often we forget the I superior people skills anaiilust be ' from- 100% recovered materials.• ·- .. command: - •· ------· - ·- ·-·-·· ··· · · willing to spend three days per week • Real Goods Trading Company, go stompin' about and trashin' all at the Philadelphia office. The 966 Mazzoni St. . Ukiah, CA 95482, the land position includes the following duties: (800)-762-7325, carries alternative What an awful pity for future • Office Management energy and conservation products generations • Fundraising/Grant Writing such as efficient lights, photo voltaic devoid of hope or celebrations. • Public Relations cells, low flush toilets, super-efficient So no more hidin' behind a fig leaf • Uaison With Affiliates refrigerators. non-toxic cleaners and Get together - spell releaf. • Planning and Production of Hear the warning of 0-d, water purifiers. RELEAF, RELEAF, RELEAf Conferences and Workshops "Do not destroy anything," • Green Seal is an organization We look to the sky after every storm. • Membership/Affiliate Services and apply it to your whole life evaluates specific products for their The rainbow's a sign of hope reborn. • Volunteer Recruitment and impact on the environment. Only Symbol of the Lord's special relation Management and to every being. those which are environmentally safe with each and every critter of creation In addition to experience in these - Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch are allowed to display the "Green areas, a candidate should be Seal" logo on their packaging and Will there come a day of dark and fear, computer literate. Background in advertising. when those rainbow colors will Judaism and in environmental issues I _ •. .• :.o. ~ disappear? would be helpful. Thank You All Let's follow the dove and search for This week we were touched upon • Shomrei Adamah occasionally - - ~- - - -:=- =--- - ~ -- -- - solid ground requires contract services for special receiving a very generous contribution the way of harmony with the earth all projects, and we also receive inquiries from a Bar Mitzvah, Gabriel Govindo around. Sticky Buslne.. of congregation B'nai Shalom in from other organizations soliciting You think being environmentally safe is candidates for job openings. We Massachusetts. He had tithed a a piece of cake? Let me tell you, it's portion of his Bar Mitzvah gift money have therefore begun to collect not so easy. Take our ef)velope resumes for a standing file of to Shomrei Adamah. stickers, for instance. Simple idea, prospective candidates. If you are We have received contributions interested, please send us your no? You put a sticker over the from other young people around the resume! address on a used envelope and - country and have received tzedakah • Shomrei Adamah has lntem presto! - you can use the envelope contributions from numerous religious positions available for office again. (remember: reduce, reuse, schools and congregations. These management and special projects. recycle!). Great! But wait... is the contributions count for a significant sticker made out of recycled paper? • Shomrei Adamah is seeking a full portion of Shomrei Adamah's income. That dove, you know, with the twig in time, cheerful, energetic secretary And what about the adhesive ... can It is through such contributions that we its beak who will enjoy managing a busy you put the sticker itself, along with can continue to serve you. The became the symbol of the peace that office. the adhesive backing, in the recycling tzedakah we receive is a special kind bin? And what about those little bits of we seek. For further Information contact: of spiritual nourishment for all of us To reconcile with our planet as a SHOIIREI ADJUIAH slick paper you peel off the back of here in the office - a recognition from the sticker... can they be recycled? whole CHURCH AD & GREENWOOD AVE you that our work makes a difference. surely must be our highest goal. 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AT THE HOMESTEAD... Hebrew, you can always say "Baruch Continued from page 1 ata Adonai" when you see a beautiful Soviet Forester Sho·cked a desk job and I wanted to stay in sunset. One says a bracha naturally! by US Clearcuts shape. Since I'm an intellectual type, I We have one woman, Lori, who works In October 1990, seven Soviet was drawn into the intellectual side of here. I remember one time seeing a scientists came to Eugene, Oregon Hinduism. I began to study integral caterpillar I had never seen before. I as part of an environmental yoga; I studied Vedanta for 12 years. said, "Oh Lori, I see this caterpillar!", exchange. Their focus of study is This study opened me up in a new and she came jumping over a couple Lake Baikal, in southern Siberia. way; I knew I was learning about of rows of herbs to take a look at it. Vladimir Molozhnikov is an something ~real." Other people would say "Oh, another ecologist and botanist. He had Greg: What did you do when you caterpillar." Life on the farm is a these words to say after spending realized that you wanted to actively constant source of religious two weekends inspecting public raise your child as a Jew? inspiration. · and private forest lands in the Judy: I started to light Shabbat Greg: Can you elaborate on what Western Cascades - contrasting candles - that's a powerful practice. you feel is the ~essence" of Judaism? the forest management strategies at the Crater Lake National Park Greg: What happened for you when ·Judy: I begin with the conviction that and on Weyerhauser Co. lands. you started lighting candles? there is an inner essence of reality which permeates everything, or another Judy: Lighting candles is I am a forest ecologist with 30 years deceptively simple. But there's a way of saying it is that the world is spirit or G-d clothed in matter-and of experience in the forests of mysterious inner.working that's so strong. As a farmer, I appreciated Siberia. Not long ago I was able to initiated; a seed starts to grow. And that OY.f attention is ordinarily directed that Israelis don't put their only altha outer world. A spiritual visit the forests of Oregon. I went to there's something for everyone in the condominiums on good farmland; different spots in the forest and saw family; the children will always have teaching teaches us how to switch rather they build them on the hillside channels and become aware of the the forest from the air, and I was that image of the candles burning in or in the center of the moshav, with the inner essence which permeates one's stunned by the scale of logging. their home and they'll always know farms surrounding them. They're not Earlier I had to refer to the they're Jewish. own self as well as everything else. paving over or !awning over good literature describing the way for~sts I'd wait until everyone was in from One of the beauties of Judaism is that land. It was so exciting to see people it teaches you to combine these two in the US are managed. In these the fields before lighting, so farming everywhere and to see that sources a bright picture is painted. sometimes I'd light at 9pm. I know levels of reality-symbolically, to agriculture is more highly valued than combine heaven and earth. Judaism We in the USSR were often taken by that an Orthodox person would say in the U.S. encourages people to live in the the American approach. You were that I was desecrating the Shabbat, We're lucky in being able to have [outer] world and at the same time be an example of a progressive but it was important to me that work which gives us the opportunity to country capable of intelligently everybody be together. aware of the inner essence -a very live in harmony with the earth and to difficult thing to do! · using your forests. Your ample was I started going to services, and I be attuned to all its beauty, power and even used to cool the heads of our had my Bat Mitzvah when I was 38 Living on a farm helps, because in even scariness. And it's really the natural environment there are · aggressive forest industrialists. years old! (about the time my third wonderful to be able to have work But what I've seen in Oregon, in child was born). I recognized that all many external reminders of the divine. where one is a Keeper of the Earth, a One goes to synagogue in order to my deep conviction, won't make it spiritual teachings.point the same way, Shomeret Adamah possible to use your forest just as I can say "I love you" in all ' remember G-d and to praise G-d, and to return towards G-d. What we do on t~chnique as an example. If one of different languages. I decided that my friends had seen and told me of what I was seeking had to be in the farm is a constant reminder of G-d. When I was working for the counselling such, I would have never believed Judaism, and I began to enjoy looking him. But is is not someone else for it in Jewish teachings. agency, I was absorbed in what I was doing, but I couldn't have my who has seen it: I have seen it with Greg: What's it like living as a Jew in consciousness or my awareness on my own eyes- a multitude of bare, a farming area? · G-d in the same way. · forestless cliffs. slopes ribboned Judy: Living as a rural Jew in the A lot of what we do on the farm is Outtakes from the with roads, intensive erosion of 1990's is difficult. The only nearby physically and intellectually Jewish Farmers Almanac: soils, silting of rivers and reservoirs, shul is a Reform shul where 1/3 of the absorbing. If you're snipping herbs, congregants aren't Jewish and the you must pay attention to The Springtime Holidays rabbi wears robes that remind me of a snipping properly so We usually associate Passover with minister's. The ambiance is. not what I that you don't harm the stqry of the Exodus..from Egypt, was looking for. The closest other"· the plant ana the - ~ but it is also a nature holiday synagogue is 1/2 hour away. Now plant benefits. You marking springtime in the when I go, I drive the hour to must do it the right agricultural cycle. The Thrah Philadelphia. As the farm got busier, I way, so you must connects Passover to the time of the stopped going to services as often. It pay attention. With was one more thing to do, and that a physically barley harvest The holiday may didn't seem to be in the spirit of repetitive activity, additionally be linked to the lambing Shabbat. I would love it if there was a there is also a of the flocks. There are allusions to place 10 minutes away. meditative quality that frees the mind. this· celebration in the various loss of animal habitat, the There are few Jewish kids; they and These tasks become real source of a symbols on the seder plate such as disappearance of recreational my kids are going to Quaker school. peace. Now, some petiple would say the karpas, egg, and shankbone. areas. I've started a cheder(a Jewish class] "Oh, is this boring!" But on the other I don't want to be misunderstood. once a week at the school. About 7 hand, for the people who are adapted I am not trying to lecture Americans. kids attend. In the past. we had a to it, it's wonderful. Alii care to do is, in a friendly way, wonderful rabbi come from • There's something miraculous in warn you: Don't repeat our Philadelphia once a week to teach the working with living things. For . kids. My daughter will become Bat­ mistakes! Tremendous natural instance, my friend's brother had died resource use and planned Mitzvah on the farm. in an accident, and I was very angry transformations of nature have lead In terms of at G-d over it. It became a focus for integrating our system to the point of all the .things that weren't right about ecological crisis. The crisis is Jewish life­ the world. I was very angry. Well, I we have to apparent even in Siberia. And with went out, to pick sugar-snap peas. At ,.. this crisis, as undesirable travel to do it. the end of picking, my mind was at We light Shabbat The second night of Passover begins consequences, have come ease. I hadn't resolved anything economic crises as well. candles, we have intellectually, but I was comforted. the Orner period, a 50-day seders. The kids say Do not cut down the limb on This work excellently balances your countdown to the festival of Shavuot, which rests the well-being of the "we're not religious: we intellect, heart and body. At least it which coincides with the wheat don't go to synagogue," but I try to people, or else your fall will be even has this possibility more than any harvest Each day during this period more frightful than ours. After all, explain that there's more to religion other work. It's like the line in the is marked with a counting ritual you s~ill have something to lose. than synagogue. For a while I wasn't Shema, "with all your heart, with all driving on Shabbat. But I can't.tell my your soul and with all your might." performed after sunset The tradition children, "you can't go to the soccer is strict in its requirement that this Greg: How do you deal as a Jewish game." It's not fair to them. I don't farmer with the focus Israel as the ritual be perfonned each day. These think that it's right to turn a spiritual on sacred land, and the awareness of days are a semi-mourning period. practice into a punishment, and that's exile? during which, for example, no the only way the children would weddings may take place. One understand it. Keeping Shabbat on a Judy: My understanding is that all farm in this day when there's no local [religious] teachings talk about explanation for this somber mood is support for such a practice is hard. It slavery/freedom, exile/redemption. anxiety about the success of the would be impossible for us not to work The is [a symbol for] the ripening wheat crop. According to at all on Shabbat. state of oneness with G-d. If now Neot Kedumim, the biblical I think the essence of what Judaism while we are talking, we can realize landscape reserve in Israel, this is a teaches becomes available to you that all is G-d, then we're in the Land time during which the "seven when you live on a farm. One begins of Israel. . On the other hand, though I never species", the seven native plants to get at the essential things that are mentioned in the Thrah, are From a Forest Service computer mail beneath the religious practices more had much desire to go to Israel for network (thanks to A. Holland). to easily in a natural environment. There many years of my life, last year the six particularly sensitive environmen­ Reprinted with permission from Earth are brachot (blessings) for seeing a of us did go to Israel ( it was Mark's tal conditions. Only a very special Island Journal, (Vol 6, No. 1) 300 rainbow, and seeing an awesome idea). It was wonderful. There was a set of conditions will allow all seven Broadway, Suite 28, San Francisco, sight. A person might not know them very deep emotional connection to to produce a good harvest CA 94133. exactly, but even if you don't know the Israel. I didn't realize that it would be

SPRING 1991 Join Kindred Spirits - Become. a Shomrei Adamah member! 5 IN THE MARKET••• move·, and we hope to present it in an grade - cardboard boxes. which can Continued from page 1 upcoming issue. be recycled many times). Therefore, On the other hand, In support Recycled Paper high-quality papers such as fine of the superiority of paper over Are you trying to convince your stationery will be more difficult to find polystyrene: community or business to adopt with high recycled content. Such • Polystyrene still poses a long-term environmentally sound habits? Here's paper will also be proportionally more problem, since no matter how long it a good place to begin. Feel free to expensive because only a small part takes, the paper will still break down reprint this article for local of the incoming waste paper will be before the polystyrene. newsletters. suitable for recycling into this type of product. • Though new technologies exist to Over a billion trees will be cut down reduce the formation of dioxins during Second, recycled papers can be· this year to meet the U.S. demand for made from basic types of paper paper production, the production of paper. Most of that paper will be used . polystyrene begins with basic raw "waste": pre-consumer and post­ once and then thrown away. materials that are highly toxic and are consumer. Pre-consumer waste Considering the facrthat the U.S. uses themselves produced from non­ includes: waste generated in the about one-third of the entire world renewable resources. Ethelene and paper making process (scraps left production of paper, it's not surprising benzene, the raw constituents of over from cutting or trimming the polystyrene, are non-renewable · that forest harvest exceeds printers, however, see the move paper machine reel into smaller rolls petroleum products and are ranked by replacement. The situation worsens towards recycled papers as an or rough sheets); waste from printing, each year as our consumption of unnecessary complication of their cutting, forming and other converting paper continues to increase. work. Though they are offering a Recycling paper reduces waste recycled option as a response to· and protects our forest consumer pressure, they will not be a resources. The good source of information on public can promote expanding use of recycled papers. recycling first by On the contrary, they will tend to contributing waste emphasize the difficulties. paper from home Ours is a society which ranks and office to recycling centers, and "convenience" as one of its highest secondly by purchasing recycled values, and we have grown used to paper products. Unless there Ia vetoing any course of action based on demand for recycled products, its alleged "inconvenience." Now that there will not be • market for the magnitude of the environmental waste paper. By using recycled crisis has been brought home, we are operations (envelope clippings, paper instead of paper produced from willing to change our daily practices, bindery trimmings) and finished paper virgin pulp, the consumer will be but expect that the new routines will from obsolete inventories. 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We would do well Earth Care pays us a percentage of beginning to recognize that the to re-invigorate that tradition and see the sales generated by our members evaluation of a product's that delving into details and and contacts. environmental impact requires a complications is a religious/moral duty even one truckload." A sampling of comprehensive "cradle to grave" and practice. Recycled Paper current "recycled" sheets reveals that analysis that considers the effects of I found it necessary to take The Human Side of the 50% waste content, about 5%- obtaining and processing raw information from several sources in Hopefully, the preceding article has 10% is post-consumer waste. materials, energy used in transportation, order to compensate for the biases pollution caused by the manufacturing convinced you of the need to use and limitations of each source. I So what do you do? In the next process and the final disposition after recycled paper. I'd like to share cultivated relationships with two issue we'll fake a closer look at some some of my experience in actually available recycled papers. In the use. We at Shomrei Adamah have yet printers who were knowledgeable trying to choose the correct recycled meantime, look for a paper with the to see such an analysis on the poly­ about papers. I attended a "recycled paper from the numerous brands that highest percentage of post-consumer styrene vs. paper issue. Until we do, paper show" where various paper we must make our decisions based on are now on the market. GR mills sent representatives to distribute waste! currently available information. It was like the opening section of a samples and specifications. And t 11aerefoN, we have been euggest. horror film. You know, the one where lng that paper Ia a better choice the main character strides confidently than polratyrene (Styrofoam). and innocently along a path that we, More importantly, however, reusable the audience, knows is surrounded products are more environmentally and threatened by danger. I thought sound than any of the disposable that locating and buying recycled products! The beat move Ia to paper was as simple as buying atop using disposable cups and regular paper. Boy, was t wrong! I begin using reusable (gla.. or was wrong on three counts: 1) There Voice of the Dees heavj plastic) cups. Ken Amron, are a lot of factors to evaluate in contacted various environmental and a Shomrei Adamah member in New choosing recycled paper, 2) Recycled recycling organizations, both city- and The Newsletter of York is developing a detailed analysis paper is trendy, but very new, so no state-wide. 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