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We Are One: Tu B’Shvat and MLK, Sustainability & Justice
We find ourselves immersed in another dark pandemic winter, a reality we could not have fathomed two years ago. And as the pandemic drags on, our social fabric continues to fray, while the climate crisis…
Jakir Manela, CEO of the combined Hazon-Pearlstone Center, talks next steps
By Helen Chernikoff | eJewish Philanthropy
Two decades after the founding of Hazon, the merger is a milestone in Jewish environmentalism.
The combined Hazon-Pearlstone Retreat Center will release its vision…
Nigel Savage looks back on two decades at Hazon
By Helen Chernikoff | eJewish Philanthropy
Savage is ‘wildly in favor’ of the merger between Hazon and the Pearlstone Retreat Center
In 2000, Nigel Savage founded Hazon, an early Jewish environmental…
Hazon-Pearlstone merger positions Baltimore as the new epicenter of Jewish sustainability work
By Rudy Malcom | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
With the pending merger of Hazon and the Pearlstone Retreat Center, Baltimore is poised to become a national leader in the Jewish outdoor food, farming and environmental…
Climate change tops agenda in Hazon-Pearlstone merger
By Sharon Rosen Leib | The Forward
In Portland this month, the daytime temperature reached 100 degrees. In Seattle, 111. Between June 26 and July 6, approximately 800 people died of heat -related causes…
With merger, Baltimore is set to become a center of Jewish environmental work
By Rudy Malcom | Baltimore Jewish Times
Baltimore is poised to become a national leader in the Jewish outdoor food, farming and environmental education movement.
On July 8, the Pearlstone Center, a Jewish…
Pearlstone Announces Merger Plans with Hazon
By Alan Feiler | JMORE
The Pearlstone Retreat Center and Outdoor Education Campus in Reisterstown announced July 8 it has merged with the New York-headquartered Hazon, the largest faith-based environmental…
Pearlstone Announces Merger with Hazon
By Selah Maya Zighelboim | Baltimore Jewish Times
Pearlstone and Hazon, a national Jewish environmental organization, are merging, Pearlstone announced in an email.
“This is a merger of two strong organizations…
The Associated is Going Green (BALTIMORE FISHBOWL)
Climate change is accelerating, causing an increase in deadly climate events. This past year record-breaking hurricanes, devastating wildfires and soaring temperatures pummeled our planet.
Many organizations…