Speaking at the Jerusalem Conference on The Environment in Jewish Thought and Law 2008: Israel Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger; Minister for Environmental Protection, MK Gidon Ezra; Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski
Sviva Israel publishes an annual scholarly journal featuring academic papers by rabbinical scholars on the topic of The Environment in Jewish Thought and Law.
The journal is sponsored by the Israel Ministry for the Protection of the Environment, the Jerusalem Municipality and the Ramat Shlomo Community Council and distributed free of charge to hundreds of synagogues and yeshivot throughout Israel.
Topics include:
Prevention of damage to public property
Necessity for green areas in cities
Sustainable development according to halacha & town planning
Meditation on the creation
Laws of house committees
Legal authority of the municipality
Neighbors' legal obligations to one another
Building on public property
"This project represents a breakthrough in reaching the religious public both intellectually and on a practical level. The essays address both practical and theoretical issues and the publication of the journals constitutes a collection of material on the environment and Halacha that did not exist previously."
Meira Helfer, Ministry of Environment
Click to download PDFs (Volume IV has articles in English and Hebrew; previous journals are in Hebrew only):
Volume III, The Environment in Jewish Thought & Law
