Mobilizing communities
Jewish Climate Action Network
Mobilizing communities to take leadership in bold climate campaigns through education and reducing carbon footprints.
“See to it that you do not spoil and destroy My world; for if you do,
there will be no one else to repair it." - Midrash Kohelet Rabbah, 1 on Ecclesiastes 7:13
The Jewish Climate Action Network works through education, activism, and organizing to add an urgent and visionary Jewish voice to the climate crisis. JCAN has nodes in Massachusetts, New York City, and the greater DC area. This website focuses on JCAN Massachusetts.
Find out how to get involved.
JCAN supports and joins the
Boston Climate Strike
September 20, 2019!
Join with JCAN & Other Boston Area
Jewish Groups for the
Global Climate Strike --
in Boston and Nationwide
The Jewish Climate Action Network (JCAN-MA) is supporting and sending a contingent to the Boston City Hall Plaza this Friday, 10-3, for the Boston Climate Strike.
Contingent coming? If a contingent from your congregation or organization is coming (irrespective of any formal endorsement), please inform JCAN at jcan.intern@gmail.com. Groups from Hebrew College, Temple Israel, Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, and Congregation Beth El (Sudbury) are on their way. We expect hundreds of Jews, affiliated or not, singly and in groups, to show up among many thousands anticipated in Boston. Please come by the JCAN table there.
Register now! Help make sure the numbers are high: go online now to indicate your intention and be counted. For Boston, visit the Strike’s Facebook page or webpage. To locate and join a Strike elsewhere, visit GlobalClimateStrike.net or StrikeWithUs.org. This is also a good way to be advised of last-minute details.
Join young people striking from school worldwide in leaving classrooms, laboratories, offices, and other worksites! NFTY (Reform youth movement) has been publicizing the strike! Have you heard NYC schoolchildren are already excused for the Strike!
Bring a shofar to join audibly! Even if your own shofar calls fall short of those you hear at the High Holy Days.The Global Climate Strike is a shofar call: a loud blast calling out to all humankind to pay attention! Arrive anytime from 10 AM to make art, meet up, browse sponsors’ tables, shmooze, etc. Bromg cardbpard amd felt markers to make signs. Here are some ideas for slogans for your signs.
Find the JCAN table to say hello and sign up. Look for the JCAN banner.
Rally on the Plaza from 11:30 AM to 1 PM.
March to the State House nearby (opportunity for shofar blasts), 1-1:30, to demand real actions by the Governor and our State Government. We will take our demands inside (1:30-2:30) to our elected leaders. (Note: security checks for entering the State House.)
Continue to call your congregation’s rabbi, lay leaders, teachers, youth advisors to join this action! Put up or hand out the attached Poster! Reach out to your institutions, employers, colleagues, friends, and family to join!
Donate to help with the costs of event logistics, permitting, equipping, etc.; go to Youth Climate Action Fund or, for the Boston Climate Strike specifically, bit.ly/strike-donate.
Why JCAN? Why we Jews? Why you?
Dealing with the human existential crisis of global climate change is our ultimate task of Tikkun Olam, repairing of the world, for which we are all responsible. If we cannot slow climate change, limit its eventual scope, and preserve the livability of this Earth for generations to come, then nothing else matters.
Boston-area leadership meetings
JCAN team meetings are held approximately twice a month in the Boston area and are open to all. To learn of upcoming meetings and other events, join our low-volume email list. You are always encouraged to approach us with ideas for participation, even if you cannot make it to team meetings.
Upcoming meetings:
Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 5:30pm. Temple Shalom, 175 Temple St. West Newton, MA 02465. Bring your dinner and join us in Rm 103.
Please contact jewishclimateaction@gmail.com if you’d like to attend.
About
JCAN helps Jewish communities face the climate crisis and take action. Learn about
our mission, our team, and what we do.
Take Action
Are you concerned about the climate? Would you like your synagogue or facility to be part of the solution?
Webinars and book club
JCAN schedules educational webinars to teach about divestment, benschmarking energy use, setting climate goals, and spiritual responses to the crisis.