Through their Gendler Grapevine Project initiative, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) is developing and will offer the course, "Rabbis as Activist Leaders for Environmental Sustainability and Justice." The course will be taught in the spring semester, beginning in February 2015. Rabbi Mordechai Liebling is developing and will teach the course. Rabbi Liebling has a long history [...]

In 2014, the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion's (HUC-JIR) New York campus rolled out their Gendler Grapevine Project: the Greening Initiative. The HUC-JIR Green Team worked over the summer to prepare the school for the physical as well as cultural changes necessary for successful implementation of the Greening Initiative. Modeling the program [...]

Camp Solomon Schechter's Gendler Grapevine Project, the Teva Learning Center, has become an integral part of their summer camp program, and it continues to provide a successful forum to discuss connections between Judaism and the environment while also allowing the camp to be more environmentally sustainable. The creation of the Center in 2013 served as [...]