{"id":2322,"date":"2012-04-22T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/22\/earth-day-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-04-22T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T20:45:00","slug":"earth-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/22\/earth-day-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History<\/em><\/p>\n

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Boy in corn field, Woodbine, New Jersey (ca. 1900)<\/em>
American Jewish Historical Society.\u00a0Click here<\/a> for more information.<\/em><\/p>\n

In celebration of Earth Day, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on the spectrum of Jewish thoughts on the environment. Simply looking at the bibliography and external links in the Wikipedia article on \u201cJudaism and Environmentalism\u201d (click here<\/a>) should give you an idea of the vast range of material and organizations dedicated to the subject. The partners\u2019 collections here at the Center for Jewish History have material on the environment that ranges from biblical concepts and Jewish law to everyday life and Jewish vegetarianism. Rather than trying to identify all of the relevant material in the collections, I found several works presenting different perspectives that can be useful for reflecting on the significance of Earth Day.<\/div>\n

One interesting work I found puts the subject into context in a similar fashion but in more detail than the Wikipedia article. Revisiting Jewish Environmental Education<\/a><\/em> has Five Jewish Values on the environment:<\/p>\n