Teaching Green for Pesach/Passover
A great conversation! Link for the video and an article follow-up Passover/Pesach, a Good, Sweet Revolution.
Join us on March 8 at the Climate Cafe Multifaith for a conversation with Rabbi Nilton Bonder. Sometimes referred to as the 'green Rabbi of Brazil,' Rabbi Bonder speaks and writes extensively on Jewish wisdom and heritage for today’s world. He will speak about environmental restoration and climate change from a Jewish perspective, drawing the urgency of the climate crisis together with the teachings arising from the rich cultural and spiritual tradition that is Pesach/Passover.
Rabbi Bonder speaks in both interfaith and corporate settings about sustainability internationally, connecting for us the history between religious persecution and climate change.
Rabbi Bonder has ordinations from JTSA and from Reb Zalman Schachter, as South American representative for the Jewish Renewal Movement. For 36 years he is rabbi at CJB, Conservative Congregation of Brazil. He is co-founder of ISER (Institute for Superior Studies in Religion) one of the most important civil rights NGOs in Brazil, and founder of Midrash Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro.
He is the author of 26 books published in Brazil, and translated in 19 languages, he is also twice winner of Jabuti Prize, the most prestigious Literary prize in Brazil and a member of the Brazilian Literary Academy. One of his books was adapted to a play and movie, having received the prize of best play of the year and has been on stage for over 15 years uninterrupted. He is the dramaturg of Eros and choreography Cure now being staged in Brazil.