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Post by gazelle18 on Aug 12, 2023 18:15:58 GMT -5
What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.
Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Frieda
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
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Post by gazelle18 on Aug 12, 2023 18:21:29 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
Somehow , although all I did was cut and paste an old intro, Peachy’s name is not in the list above. Sorry about that!
The weather is simply scorching here. Temps in the high 90’s, no rain to cool things off , etc. No end in sight. It’s really hard to keep up good spirits but I am trying. The fires in Hawaii were really sad. I have been to Lahaina before and I loved it.
Do you worry for the next generation about the long term effects of climate change? What are your thoughts on this?
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Post by lee058 on Aug 13, 2023 7:52:05 GMT -5
Good morning everybody. Hope you are all well and SAFE!
Re today's topic: Yes, I worry about climate change. Without going into depressing details, I hope and pray there won't be worse devastating effects.
Have a peaceful day, Lee
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Post by louise on Aug 13, 2023 8:58:37 GMT -5
I worry about the next generation. I worry about the next year. We have so many things that are just wrong and in serious ways that had never even occurred to me before!
Today I am having lunch with the woman who was my roommate in Israel. Looking forward to it. She had bought some beautiful material when we were in Israel and if the timing works out we are hoping to bring it to one of my friends this afternoon who will make it into a tallit for her.Looking forward to that as well.
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Post by hollygail on Aug 13, 2023 9:04:51 GMT -5
When I was in college and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King was still alive, it was the height of the Civil Rights movement plus the Vietnam War was in full bloom. My life was at least partly consumed with social justice work. The group of us kids who worked tirelessly for Civil Rights were arrested together at a sit-in demonstration at the World's Fair in Flushing Meadows in Queens in New York City (including late-D#1), and when we weren't working on Civil Rights issues, we were very busy protesting the Vietnam War (said late-DH#1 helped found the Vietnam Era Veterans Against the War). One of us (after college) moved to Canada and still lives in Toronto and is still busy working for social justice issues in his part of the world. (These are the same "kids" I'm still in touch with; we have been meeting on Zoom every six to eight weeks now that we started during the pandemic; prior to the pandemic, it was by email and before that, by the US Postal Service).
My youngest grandson's main extra-curricular activity on his college campus (in Eugene, Oregon) is with a group focused almost exclusively on climate change. He's dating someone he met who is also a member of that group. Many if not most of the students I teach are involved in the climate change issue (and at least one of them demonstrated in the town where I live in the County of San Diego after George Floyd's death, as many Americans were demonstrating all around the country). Quite a few of my students have done work around the issue as their mitzvah project (many synagogues ask b. mitzvah students to do what they call a "mitzvah project" as part of their preparation to become an adult in the Jewish community).
Do I worry about future generations? Yes. Am I heartened by what I see in my own "circle of people I know"? Also yes.
I was at an adult gathering recently (online; a memorial of sorts for Daniel Ellsberg, the man probably best known as the one who gave the Pentagon Papers to the NY Times but whose main work took place in Rocky Flats, where radioactive contamination made headline news. There are famous pictures of his being arrested by the sheriff in May, 1978; www.dailycamera.com/2018/01/26/boulder-county-history-daniel-ellsberg-was-key-rocky-flats-protester/) and one of the topics of conversation was around today's topic of climate change. People (who ranged in age, I'd estimate, from about 40 or 50 to over 90) who are still involved in social justice issues talked about what the "young people" are doing about climate change in today's world.
So yes, I am heartened by what today's young people are doing. Greta Thunberg wasn't / isn't the first, nor was/is she the only, young person to get involved in work concerning climate change and its effects, although possibly (at least to date) the one whose name is known around the world for this work.
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Post by peachymom1 on Aug 13, 2023 16:07:13 GMT -5
I do worry about climate change and about the next generation. But I try to take heart from what I see in the younger generation, including my kids. I try to be optimistic and realistic at the same time, which is not easy.
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