Contemplating Earth-Focused Judaism: Pesach and the quiet heart inside chaos
By Rabbi Gila Caine Purim is always a hectic time, but this year it really overdid it. And now here we are in a world…
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Contemplating Earth-focused Judaism: Should we plant trees on Tu B’Shevat?
by Rabbi Gila Caine (Edmonton) – In honor of Tu B’Shevat, I’m going to point us in the direction of “Forest gardens” which is an alternative,…
Too Much Light: Contemplating Earth-Focused Judaism Part 1
This is the first in a series: Contemplating earth-focused Judaism By Rabbi Gila Caine (December 2019) – The primeval fight between Light and Darkness is…
Rabbi Gila Caine: Make time to hear the shofar
by Rabbi Gila Caine (September 2019) – Sounds not words. The new moon of Tishrei (which we later learned to call Rosh Hashanah) holds one…
YEG interfaith groups gather at candle light vigil and urge members to attend climate action march on Sept. 27
September 22, 2019, Edmonton, AB (Treaty 6 Territory) – On the evening of September 22, around three hundred people from dozens of different faith communities…