Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
COEJL was founded also founded in 1993, and has since been the leading Jewish environmental organization in the United States. COEJL is also the only Jewish member of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment. This organization puts environmental protection on the agenda of the Jewish community, believing that protecting the environmnet is both a moral and a religious obligation. The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life was founded by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, with the intent of enacting a distinctively Jewish policy response to environmental crises.
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