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The New Activists

Executive Director Evan Mendelson,
based in New York.
"Some people said, 'Saving the
whales? Of course, that's Jewish. That's
tikkun olam.' And others thought it
was absurd, the province of lefties.
Different people come to a definition
of funding from different places."
Started in 1990, the JFN was
formed by some Jewish philanthropists,
activists and communal workers who
wanted to be more involved in decid-
ing where their money went. They
were looking for ways to fund projects
outside of the federation system.
Many of the philanthropists — some
from family foundations — are interest-
ed in giving only to causes that are obvi-
ously Jewish. But many others believe
they are advancing Jewish values even
when they are giving to non-Jewish
causes, including environmentalism.
"It's definitely an interest of a
younger generation, Jewish or general,"
Mendelson said. "Jews tend to be at
the forefront of most movements, and
the environmental is one of them."
She cited as an example Adam
Werbach, the former head of the
Sierra Club, who now runs an envi-
ronmental advocacy organization
called Act Now.
Jack Wertheimer, provost and histo-
ry professor at the Jewish Theological
Seminary in New York City, was
among the detractors at the April JFN
conference.
"There is an increasing blurring of
what constitutes a Jewish cause,"
Wertheimer said in a later interview.
"Jewish environmental organizations
have the virtue of trying to work
within Jewish understandings of our
responsibility to care for the environ-
ment, and they have the virtue of
bringing Jews to work together. But to
say an environmental organization
heightens a sense of spirituality, I
think that's a very facile way of under-
standing what it means to be Jewish."
Royal Oak's Greener disagrees. Jews
in ancient times were people of the
land, and today continue to abide by a
calendar set by the moon's phases and
to acknowledge the planting and har-
vesting seasons, Greener said. She
believes Jews who dismiss environmen-
talism as nothing more than liberalism
are out of touch with their history.
"How can you say environment is
not part of our religion? We always
lived off the land," Greener said.
"When you're more in tune with cre-
ation, how can you not be more
attuned to spirituality? For me, I never
could find any kind of spirituality
praying in the confines of walls."