SPEAKERS GUIDE

Dr. Jeremy Benstein

Fellowship Director
Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership

17 Mordechai St.
Kiryat Tivon, Israel
Tel: 972.4.953.0344
Tel 2: 972.3.560.8788
jeremyb@netvision.net.il

Note: Jeremy will be traveling throughout the United States in 2009!

Dr. Jeremy Benstein serves as the educational director of the Abraham Joshua Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership, a non-profit educational foundation in Israel dedicated to promoting a vision and program of sustainability for Israeli society. Dr. Benstein has published numerous articles on Judaism and the environment. He has recently finished his doctorate at The Hebrew University in environmental anthropology, on joint Israeli Jewish-Israeli Palestinian environmental initiatives, and the environment as a basis for shared citizenship.

Topics on which qualified to speak:

• Theological / Philosophical Perspectives
• Ethical / Halakhic Perspective
• The Jewish Festival Cycle and Ecology
• Environmental Issues in Israel
• Jews, Arabs and the Environment
• Experiential Jewish Environmental Education
• Environmental Health and Justice
• Zionism and the Environment
• Environmental and Social Thought

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

- Will work for transportation expenses! (from Israel )