BIODIVERSITY

Operation Noah:
Defending God's Endangered Creatures

The loss of biological diversity is among the most serious and pressing environmental problems. Humanity is in the process of forever extinguishing much of the diversity of life. COEJL encourages all synagogues, day schools, Jewish community centers and other Jewish institutions across the country to learn about and take action concerning our Jewish responsibility for protecting all of God's creations.

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• Program Ideas
  An outline of education and action program ideas for participating in COEJL's campaign to protect biological diversity.
• Threats to Biological Diversity: A Scientific and Political Overview
  Dr. Elliott A. Norse, a leading scientist, outlines the basics of biodiversity: what its is, why it's important, how it's threatened, what needs to be done to protect it.
• "Each After Their Own Kind": A Jewish Celebration of Biological Diversity
  Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson explores the sources for Jewish understandings of our responsibility to the diversity of life.
• The Story of Noah: A Modern Midrash
• Biodiversity: A Contemporary Page of Talmud
• COEJL's Positions on Preserving Biodiversity