Rabbi Fred Dobb
Fred Scherlinder Dobb has served Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation (a dynamic 480-household shul in Bethesda MD) for a decade as Rabbi. He currently serves as the President of the Washington Board of Rabbis, and on the boards of COEJL (Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, where in 2003-04 while on sabbatical from the synagogue he was the first rabbi on its staff), the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, the Shalom Center, and Religious Witness for the Earth. Though a well-known teacher and writer in Jewish-environmental circles, that is only an avocation -- his primary commitments are to Adat Shalom, his life partner Minna Scherlinder Morse, and their pride and joy and major project Sara Penina Scherlinder, now two years old.
Fee (Explanation): $
Availability: Fred lives in Maryland. Contact JNF Speakers Bureau for availability.
Topics:
- Intro/Overview of Jewish Environmental Texts, Ideas, and Actions
- Jewish Texts as Resources on Climate Change
- Biodiversity and Judaism
- Shabbat as a Weekly Earth Day: Halacha, Aggadah, and Ecology
- Public vs. Private Good: Zoning Laws, Takings Legislation, and Seder Nezikin
- Bereshit (Genesis) 1-3: Caring for the World and Each Other, from the Dawn of Creation
- Modern Jewish Environmental Thought: Kook, Gordon, Buber, Heschel, Kaplan
- Judaism and Wilderness
- Jewish Texts and Values on Population
- Grounds for Hope: Jewish-Envrionmental Pollyanna meets Cassandra
- Poetry, Prayer, and Planting: working the soil and soul, through Marge Piercy's poetic Jewish lens
- Jewish Eco-Eschatology: Redemption songs, liberation theology, the Earth and all it holds
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