Science and Ecology

Maimonides drew upon scientific knowledge in his interpretations of Jewish law.

Jewish scholars in the Middle Ages viewed science as an avenue for knowing God.

A Jewish perspective on a seminal essay of the modern environmentalist movement

Jewish sensitivity to nature has existed for centuries

Jews need to put environmental issues higher on their agenda, the author argues.

In Jewish sources, the leaf is a metaphor for the fragility and durability of life.

This major 20th-century Jewish thinker saw vegetarianism as the biblical ideal to which humankind should work to return.

Behind these biblical practices is a vision of how politics, economics, and relations to the environment should be structured that makes manifest spiritual concerns as well.

For Jewish families, caring for the environment could be part of a wider consciousness of living in a world that is a divine gift.

A biblical prohibition against mixing species teaches us that we are partners in creation -- but with limits

The Jewish spiritual tradition offers ways to think and act in harmony with nature and for the benefit of the environment.

Contemporary Concerns on Nature and the Environment. Jewish Nature. Jewish Environment.