The insights of a spiritually-rooted caring for the endangered web of life on this planet, leading to a conscious eco-Judaism.

Ecology and the Jewish Spirit

Ellen Bernstein, ed.
Jewish Lights, 1998

A collection of personal essays on contemplating earth through Jewish eyes.

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Judaism and Vegetarianism

Richard H. Schwartz
Micah Publications, 1988


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The Ecology of Eden

Evan Eisenberg
Knopf, 1998


Draws on contemporary ecology and archeology to see the Torah as in part a profound spiritual and political response to the agricultural revolution -- and draws important lessons for the present.


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Torah of the Earth (Volume 1)

Arthur Waskow
Jewish Lights Publishing, 2000



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Torah of the Earth (Volume 2)

Arthur Waskow
Jewish Lights Publishing, 2000



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The Book of Miriam

Leonard Angel
Mosaic Press, 1997

A feminist and eco-sensitive midrash on biblical Judaism, seeing ancient Israel as a shepherd people deeply critical of ownership-agriculture.


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Graceful Simplicity

Jerome M. Segal
Holt, 1999

Perhaps unique in bringing the teachings of Aristotle and Heschel into relation with each other, toward both a philosophy, a practice, and a politics of simpler living.


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God's Grace

Bernard Malamud
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982

A novel of nuclear holocaust that draws explicitly on Jewish thought in raising profound questions about God, humankind, the earth, and its other species.


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A Spirituality of Resistance

Roger S. Gottlieb
Crossroad, 1999

Draws on the experience of the Nazi Holocaust to examine passivity in the face of ecological destruction, and to propose ways to encourge spiritual strength in facing great danger and resisting great evil.


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Trees, Earth, and Torah: A Tu B'Shvat Anthology


Edited by Ari Elon, Arthur Waskow, and Naomi Mara Hyman
Jewish Publication Society of America, 2000


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Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, and the Rest of Life

Arthur Waskow
Quill, 1997

Draws on the past and imagined the future of Jewish ways of making holy daily practice regarding food, money, sex, and rest -- for example, in pointing toward eco-kosher ways of consuming not only food but coal, oil, wood, etc; toward new Jewish sexual ethics; toward the socially responsible use of money; and toward the crucial element of restfulness in healing a production-addicted society.


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