Mark and Sharon Bloome
Jewish Environmental Leadership Institute

For many years the COEJL community has gathered to learn and celebrate at the Mark and Sharon Bloome Jewish Environmental Leadership Institute. Participants have come from 25 states, two Canadian provinces, Israel, and the United Kingdom. In alternate years, the Institute takes place in Washington, D.C., alongside the joint annual policy conferences of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and Hillel.

Today, many younger Jews are alienated from Jewish life, tradition, and community. Yet they are joining environmental organizations in high school and college and entering the environmental professions in large numbers. COEJL provides a way for them to connect their passions and interests with Jewish tradition and Jewish community in an organic and exciting way that honors who they are and what they care about.

For some, COEJL has become their Jewish home.

“The strongest tool to fight environmental neglect is the spiritual movement that COEJL is organizing. It is affirming as a Jew to find other Jews who stand for the same things I do.”
      Adam Werbach, past National President, Sierra Club, San Francisco

*There will be no Bloome Institute in 2008*

• Information on this past year's JCPA Plenum, of which COEJL was a part
• Highlights from the 2005 Institute