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A Temple ceremony and climate change

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Published: 24 November 2015

Last updated: 4 March 2024

How a Temple ceremony can teach us about climate change – Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg - The Jewish Chronicle 19.11.15
The forthcoming climate talks in Paris may be our last best chance to create legally binding international agreements to prevent the world's temperature rising by more than two degrees centigrade. Global warming isn't a specifically "Jewish issue"; it doesn't address our most prepossessing anxieties: Israel, antisemitism, terror, assimilation. But it unquestionably is a Jewish issue, because regarding the survival of life on Earth, the fate of one is the fate of all.
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