‘Adventure Rabbi’ returning to her suburban roots
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Rabbi Jamie Korngold, who graduated from Edgemont High School in 1983, is these days known as the…Adventure Rabbi.
Korngold, a Reform rabbi, now lives in Boulder, Colo., where she started the “Synagogue Without Walls” program in 2001. Among other things, she officiates at “wilderness weddings, backcountry b’nai mitzvah” and other life cycle events.
He new book is God in the Wilderness, in which she “uses rabbinic wisdom and witty insights to guide readers through the Bible, showing people of all faiths that, despite the hectic pace of life today, it is vital for us to reclaim these lessons, awaken our inner spirituality, and find meaning, tranquillity, and purpose in our lives.”
Korngold will be in NY next week, promoting her book and helping people find God in the great outdoors. Get the details here.
She’ll do a book reading and signing at Bet Am Shalom in White Plains on May 17 at 1:15 p.m.
She’ll do a “Havdallah Hike,” book reading and signing at Woodlands Community Temple in Greenburgh on May 17 at 5 p.m. Korngold attended Woodlands while growing up.
She’ll lead a hike in Central Park on May 18 at 3 p.m. (Meet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, and look for the “white Adventure Rabbi banner” north of the steps.)
And she’ll lead a “walk and talk” in Central Park at noon on May 19.
Here are Korngold’s Twenty Commandments of Conscious Consumption:
1. Don’t buy things you don’t need
2. Support businesses and products that have sustainability policies
3. Buy local products and produce, organic and free range foods
4. Install compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL) and turn off lights when not in use. (If we all replaced one conventional bulb with a CFL, it would lessen pollution as much as removing a million cars from the road.)
5. Buy high efficiency appliances
6. Use eco-friendly cleaning products
7. Lower your heat and lessen your air conditioning
8. Tele-commute whenever possible
9. When it is time to replace you car, buy a fuel efficient vehicle
10. Use wind or solar power for your home and office
11. Drive less: ride your bike & walk more
12. Reduce, reuse, recycle (i.e. encourage the use of hand-me-down clothing, toys, sporting goods and electronics)
13. Install dual 2 flush toilets (different flow amounts based on need)
14. Bring your own reusable, cloth bags to the grocery store
15. Compost
16. Choose products that contain less packaging. (About one-third of the waste in our landfills is from packaging materials!)
17. Vacation near home so you can fly less
18. Don’t use wrapping paper or store bought greeting cards
19. Use less water.
20. Encourage our politicians to create policies that enable us to stop giving oil money to people that hate us and want to kill us.
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