Rabbi Shoshana's beloved climate anthem is now expanded into a picture book!
And if you're not yet humming the tune & singing it at all your climate events, click here for lyrics, chords, videos, & sheet music.
Supporting Vulnerable Nervous Systems in Chronic Distress
PSYCHOTHERAPY NETWORKER
As a kid, I loved the smell of pizza but couldn’t allow myself to eat it. If you’d asked me to explain why, I would’ve said I didn’t like pizza. But the truth was, pizza looked delicious. It was just forbidden—not by my parents, but by some universal law that decreed I personally did not eat pizza. ...
When Dropping Obligations is a Mitzvah
HEBREW COLLEGE
My son and I are both Autistic with a PDA profile. Though many prefer Pervasive Drive for Autonomy, PDA’s clinical name is Pathological Demand Avoidance. Along with many PDAers and PDA educators, I believe PDA is best understood as a nervous system disability...
Neurodivergent Torah: A Celebration of Autistic Culture & Liberation
TEMPLE EMANUEL
This Shabbat, I’m going to share a personal story very different from the kinds of sermons I used to give when I worked in a congregation. I want to be clear it is my story.I recognize that in this room there are Autistic people and family members who have their own perspectives that may differ from mine. ...
When The Narrow Place Is Refuge
HEBREW COLLEGE
In the middle of my house, hanging between my living and dining rooms, is a blue lycra therapy swing. When the world overwhelms me, when my body is jittery, when my eyes ache with the slightest light and my ears from the slightest sound, I fold my body into this swing. ...
Creativity at the Center: Cultivating My Autistic Joy
JEWISH BOSTON
Two summers ago, a friend showed me how to use alcohol paint on tile. I fell in love with the small vials of color, the vibrant splotchy designs I could only partially control, and the satisfaction of layering Hebrew calligraphy over it all. ...
Challenging Destruction: We Speak Up Despite The Odds
THE SPEAKING TORAH PODCAST
"[Rabbi Shoshana’s] sermon makes us think again about Noah, who is a great ecological hero. After all, he saved a breeding pair of every animal on Earth. But it makes us think again about his agency and ours. And to me, that’s at the absolute center of thinking about the climate crisis."
– BILL MCKIBBEN
Featuring Bill McKibben & Rabbi Shoshana
Teaching My Child to Love A Dying World
THE NEW YORK TIMES
This spring, as the world fell apart faster than we’d expected, I fell in love with trees. Not the crush of my girlhood when I admired them and fancied myself the child at the end of Dr. Seuss’s “The Lorax.”....
Why I Gave Away My Salary in the Pandemic
YES! MAGAZINE
One evening in May 2020, my husband and I sat on the kitchen floor, exhausted from another day of working from home and caring for our 2-year-old in the pandemic. A week earlier, Yotam had been laid off. We were able to collect unemployment...
Becoming a Mom During the Climate Crisis: A rabbi & activist weighs her decision
TABLET! MAGAZINE
The planet was my first love. In third grade, I stared at a poster of the Earth in space like it was a celebrity crush, swirls of blue, white, and brown standing out starkly against the black. While my friends talked about TV shows or new games,
'Personal Choice' Won't Stop the Climate Crisis:
Join a Movement Instead
WBUR's COGNOSCENTI
A flyer in the window of a local hardware store caught my eye recently: “Sea Level Rise is Real. Here’s how you can help.” The first item on the list of suggested actions read “pick up litter.” I felt a chill as I imagined some well-intentioned community group devoting time and effort to disseminating this lie...
The Ground Beneath Our Feet, an essay appearing in
ROOTED & RISING: VOICES OF COURAGE IN A TIME OF CLIMATE CRISIS
Rooted and Rising is for everyone who worries about the climate crisis and seeks spiritual practices and perspectives to renew their capacity for compassionate, purposeful, and joyful action.Leah Schade and Margaret Bullitt-Jonas gather twenty-one faith leaders, scientists, community organizers, theologians, and grassroots climate activists to offer wisdom for fellow pilgrims grappling with the weight of climate change
Tu Bishvat or Not Tu Bishvat: A Conversation on Trees, Climate, & Spiritual Resilience
INTERLEAVED: A TALMUDIC PODCAST
How is climate a divine language? Why should you get to know a tree? How can we support our children as we face climate chaos? In this conversation, I talk about some of the ideas dearest to my heart with host Netanel Zellis-Paley.
