Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster
When climate justice is a family affair.
When climate justice is a family affair.
For me, being a Jewish woman in the climate movement means: I’ve got ancestors at my back. I carry on traditions of joy and resistance and finding hope in community. I don’t know what will happen – and there are plenty of good reasons to be terrified – but I know that my people have faced unimaginable horrors, and we’re still here. I know that we can repair the world, together.
As a Black Jewish feminist I am committed to many issues that are life and death–from police violence to abortion–but for the first time, I find myself zeroing in on a singular issue: climate catastrophe.
Many, especially millennials like myself, are petrified. We’re afraid to start families, to make long-term career plans, to weave dreams for our futures…
At the beginning of the Jewish year, we read once again of our obligation to “till and tend” the earth (Genesis 2:15). In the first few lines of our sacred text, we read of the responsibility of humankind to care for and rule over the whole of creation. Our text is rooted in references to… Read more »