SPEAKERS GUIDE

Ellen Bernstein

Writer, Consultant
Founder, Shomrei Adamah
www.ellenbernstein.org

80 Williams St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Tel: (413) 687-4218
ellen@ellenbernstein.org

Ellen Bernstein is founder and former director of Shomrei Adamah-Keepers of the Earth, the first Jewish environmental organization. She is author of The Splendor of Creation: A Biblical Ecology, the editor of Ecology and the Jewish Spirit: Where Nature and the Sacred Meet, and the co-author of Let the Earth Teach You Torah.

Sandee Brawarsky, Book critic, the N.Y. Jewish Week writes, "Her new book, The Splendor of Creation: A Biblical Ecology (PilgrimPress) is a gem, beautifully written and produced. While it is inherently a narrative about ecological issues as framed by the first chapter of Genesis, it is really a deeper poetic work about livinng fully, being alive to life's wonders, feeling connected to creation and to the Creator . . Here Bernstein joins the ranks of naturalists like Annie Dillard".

Topics on which qualified to speak:

• Engaged, Embodied Judaism for an Ecologic Age
• The Jewish Festival Cycle and Ecology
• Jewish Spirituality and Ecology
• Ecotheology
• Genesis from an Ecological Perspective
• Shir ha Shirim from an Ecological Perspective
• Prayer from an Ecological Perspective
• The Ecology of Jewish Time

Types of Presentations available for:

• Scholar-in-residence for congregations
• Scholar-in-residence for campus
• In-service training program for educators
• Synagogue speaker / sermon
• Campus speaker
• Conference speaker