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Kol yisrael arevim zeh bazeh.
All of Israel is responsible
for one another.
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All of Israel is responsible for one another.
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About Rabbi Shoshana
About Rabbi Shoshana
Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman is a writer, mother, climate activist, and passionate creative in many different media. She is co-founder and director of The Artist Beit Midrash
of Hebrew College
and JArts, and speaks and teaches for Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action. A late-diagnosed Autistic woman, she posts regularly on Instagram (@rabbishoshana) about the transformative power of Autistic identity and neurodivergent-affirming parenting.
Rabbi Shoshana’s writing has been published in various venues, including The New York Times, Tablet Magazine, YES! Magazine, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, and JewishBoston.com, as well as in the books Rooted & Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and The Sacred Earth: Jewish Perspectives on Our Planet. Her first picture book, The Tide Is Rising: A Climate Movement Anthem is forthcoming from Beaming Books.
Rabbi Shoshana’s music has spread around the world through her climate anthem, “The Tide Is Rising,” co-written with her husband, Yotam Schachter. Her original album Guesthouse is available on streaming platforms.
She was ordained by Hebrew College in Newton, MA, and is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, JOIN For Justice, and Oberlin College where she was also a Henry David Thoreau Scholar. She has served rabbinic roles at Temple Sinai of Brookline, Shirat HaYam of the North Shore, Temple Beth of Portland, and the Jewish Community Day School of Greater Boston. She lives in Boston with her husband and son.
