For text & signers of Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis: clcik to <https://theshalomcenter.org/RabbinicLetterClimate>

Citations follow to press & media cover:

Congressman Raul Grijalva  May 12, 2015 ·

The threats of climate change impact people of every faith, nationality and political persuasion. I’m glad to see news that 250 Rabbis are in lock-step with Pope Francis when it comes to addressing climate change and environmental justice. I join them in celebrating the “Breath of Life,” and stand with them in the conviction that climate change cannot be ignored.

 At <http://stateofbelief.com/segments/the-making-and-effect-of-the-rabbinic-letter-on-climate-crisis/> you can hear  an interview Welton Gaddy, head of the Interfaith Alliance, did with me last week that went on radio this weekend.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (page A-17) ran a full article (with photo) on the Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis, connected to its article on the forthcoming papal encyclical.  It is on-line at <http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20150614_Rabbis_issue_a_letter_on_climate_change.html> 

Articles about the Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis, and/or the text of the Letter itself have now appeared in a number of on-line journals. Each article had a different slant befitting its audience, and almost all the various editors dealt well with the texts and the issues.

Here are the various links: Progressive Catholic, progressive broadly-Christian (mostly Protestant), moderately conservative Israeli, liberal Jewish, progressive Muslim, eco-interfaith.  And if you want the full text and the full list of 342 signers as of this morning, see <https://theshalomcenter.org/torah-pope-crisis-inspire-300-rabbis-call-vigorous-climate-action>

< http://ncronline.org/blogs/eco-catholic/pope-francis-inspires-300-rabbis-sign-rabbinic-letter-climate>

< http://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbis-urge-eco-social-justice-in-letter-on-climate-crisis/>

<http://forward.com/opinion/national/309548/rabbis-against-climate-change/>

< http://sojo.net/blogs/2015/06/05/pope-francis-climate-change-encyclical-inspires-rabbinic-call-action>

 <http://www.earthday.org/blog/2015/05/12/rabbinic-letter-climate-crisis-calls-action>

 <http://fore.yale.edu/climate-change/statements-from-world-religions/judaism/>

 <http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the-pope-the-bible-the-climate-crisis-inspire-a-rabbinic-call-to-action>

 < http://omiusajpic.org/topics/rabbinic-letter-on-the-climate-crisis/>

 http://pcillu101.blogspot.com/

Some Jewish Rabbis Speak Out on the Climate Change Fight: Ancient Hebrew Scriptures Say ‘If We Refuse To Let Earth Rest, It Will Rest Anyways’

https://www.academia.edu/1833470/The_Friar_and_the_Sultan_Francis_of_Assisi_s_Mission_to_Egypt