Jeremy Benstein Articles By Jeremy Benstein
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Stop the Machine! -- The Sabbatical Year Principle
The biblical shemitah represents an alternative to the consumer society.
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Biodiversity is God's Glory
The Bible portrays 'the earth and the fullness thereof' as the stuff of the divine presence. Diminishing biodiversity, then, diminishes God's glory.
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The Earth's Reward: Enjoy Its Fruit, but Protect Its Fruitfulness
The Torah teaches us to value human life -- as part of a sustainable world.
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Advertising and the Tenth Commandment
Advertising deals in dissatisfaction, argues one environmental activist. We buy to cure deficiencies that ads mercilessly invent, encouraging us to covet what others have.
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Genetic Engineering: A Call for Restraint
A biblical prohibition against mixing species teaches us that we are partners in creation -- but with limits
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Shabbat & Nature
The conundrum of Shabbat observance and environmental damage.
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Urbanization and Land Use: A Biblical Model
The design of the Levites’ urban settlements featured open spaces and regional integration.
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Shavuot and Land Ownership
Everyone's land.
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Humans as Guests in God's World
A talmudic metaphor teaches that human beings are responsible for ensuring that the world achieves global environmental sustainability.
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Jeremy Benstein is the fellowship director of the Abraham Joshua Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership in Tel Aviv.
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