01/07/2026 09:00
- 18:20
HALL: Parenzo - A19
Contact:
Ben Pazi H.
Chair:
Dinur E.,
Feldmann - Kaye M.,
Mirsky Y.
Open panel with an innovative framework for addressing sustainability, responsibility, and justice through Jewish ethics and philosophy. Bringing together biblical interpretation, rabbinic literature, modern Jewish philosophy, phenomenology, ethics, and social critique, the panel demonstrates how Jewish sources generate distinctive perspectives on ecological crises while remaining in active conversation with wider religious and interreligious discourses.
The panel challenges anthropocentric and justice-centered assumptions shaping contemporary ethical thought. Close engagement with biblical texts destabilizes expectations that nature conforms to human moral categories, revealing realities governed by forces exceeding human knowledge and control. Philosophical readings of revelation and discovery redirect human agency away from mastery toward attentiveness, restraint, and responsibility.
Several contributions extend ethical reflection across expanding horizons of time and space. Jewish philosophical resources are applied to questions of technological ambition, outer space exploration, and collective power, emphasizing moral intention over scale. Sustainability requires ethical commitments questioning prevailing economic, cultural, and political assumptions. Economic culture and spatial organization are examined as moral systems through religious lenses rather than as neutral scientific frameworks. Jewish sources offer critiques of consumerism, perpetual growth, and inequality, alongside alternative models of shared responsibility and collective wellbeing. Gender-attentive readings foreground vulnerability, care, and embodied ethical labor under conditions of environmental precarity and persistent questions of in/equality. The panel welcomes participants from other religious traditions and values interreligious dialogue, contributing to EuARE's commitment to critical, cross-traditional reflection on religion and global challenges.
