The ERENSYA platform has been founded by Centro Sefarad-Israel in order to establish and strengthen the bonds between Spain and the Sephardic communities spread all over the world. Individual projects of this platform deal with culture, coexistence and academic issues in order to promote a wide [...]

On September 29th 2013, this year’s edition of the EDJC will evolve around “Jewish Heritage and Nature”.

The relation between Judaism and Nature is manifold, on many different levels.

In order to deepen the understanding of this subject, we will present you over the next months, a series of articles, bibliographic references and similar.

To start, we suggest the following article (in Italian language) “L’ebraismo e la Natura“, by Giorgio Israel, which can be downloaded here, and which deals with the challenges environmentalism represents for the religions of the Book, in particular Judaism.

Giorgio Israel is professor for the history of Mathematics at the “La Spienza” University of Rome, and has published a wide range of books and scientific articles, as well as given numerous conferences and lectures in Italy and abroad.

The relation between Judaism and Nature is [...]