What do we tell our kids when the sky turns orange?
Our skies are hazy with wildfire smoke, from New York to Detroit and far beyond. This is not abstract climate…
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Freedom Is Hard
Dear Friends, Pesach arrives each year just as the earth begins to soften and stir, buds emerging, light lingering a…
A Look Back at 2025 | a message from Jakir Manela, CEO
This past year Adamah has grown into our potential as the largest Jewish environmental organization in North America, leading a burgeoning movement in Jewish life. This dramatic growth reflects the urgency of our time. In an era of polycrisis—Adamah meets a deep human and societal need.
This Tisha B’Av: Destruction & Mourning, Healing & Hope
[August 1, 2025] Tisha B’Av, beginning at sundown tomorrow night, is the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. The Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed on this day, ending Jewish sovereignty in the holy land 2,000 years ago and many moments of trauma and tragedy across the ensuing centuries of Jewish history haunt us on this day as well.
The TED Countdown Summit in Nairobi, Kenya
[June 27, 2025] I just got back from the TED Countdown Summit last week in Nairobi, Kenya, where I was one of seven faith leaders from across the globe invited to join this visionary group of global innovators, business executives, scientists, policymakers, next-generation leaders, artists, and activists — all united in our commitment to building a brighter future.
There is no despair in the world.
[January 17, 2025] Can you feel this edge in time we are living through? I sure do, like we’re crossing a threshold in human, ecological, and Jewish history.
The Path Ahead
[November 6, 2024] As this electoral earthquake sends shocks across our nation and across the world, what can we do?
We need community. We need joy. We need you.
[October 11, 2024] We all need community right now. We need joy. We need hope. And that’s why our work at Adamah is more important than ever.
October 7 – One Year Later
[October 7, 2024] This is a day of profound grief and sorrow for many people.
A Prayer for 5785
[October 2, 2024] Put away the phone and listen to and learn from the trees and flowers, plants and animals, and what they evoke inside of us. Adam and Adamah. People and planet.
The Torah of Resilience
[June 11, 2024] Tonight, we step into Shavuot… Both {Pearlstone and Isabella Freedman} are welcoming a diversity of participants for retreats filled with deep learning, soulful singing, and vibrant community. We come together amidst
Israel needs us now
[May 13, 2024] As we mark Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut…We carry unbearable pain these last days, weeks, and months. But there is community. There is prayer. There is love. And there is hope.
Bearing witness and holding onto hope
[May 6, 2024] Today is the 13th day of the Omer, corresponding to the kabbalistic sefirot- divine energies- of Yesod she’beGevurah- Foundation in Strength. Today is Day 213 since October 7th. And today is
Happy Birthday Adamah!
[March 4, 2024] This week we mark one year since the launch of Adamah- the merger of Hazon and Pearlstone. We’ve come a long way and together we will go even farther – because we’re just getting started, and the best is yet to come.
Now is the time.
[December 27, 2023] This has been a hard year for the Jewish people. We’re all doing what we can in this moment…Today Adamah is North America’s leading Jewish environmental organization, with unprecedented impact—and more demand for our work than ever
This Chanukah: Hope, Steadfast
[December 7, 2023] The story of Chanukah teaches us to stand tall in who we are, but the light of the candles also beckons us to see and treat each other with warmth and compassion, to listen, to learn, to hope