About: Lawrence Troster

Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: Lawrence Troster Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : dbkwik.org associated with source dataset(s)

Rabbi Lawrence Troster is Director of the Fellowship program and Rabbinic Scholar-in-Residence for GreenFaith, the interfaith environmental coalition in New Jersey. Rabbi Troster co-chairs the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment of UNEP (United Nations Environment Program). He is also pursuing a D. Min. in Ecological Ministries at Drew Theological School. Rabbi Troster was born in Toronto, Canada in 1953. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto and his M.A. and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City.

Attributes	Values
rdfs:label	Lawrence Troster
rdfs:comment	Rabbi Lawrence Troster is Director of the Fellowship program and Rabbinic Scholar-in-Residence for GreenFaith, the interfaith environmental coalition in New Jersey. Rabbi Troster co-chairs the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment of UNEP (United Nations Environment Program). He is also pursuing a D. Min. in Ecological Ministries at Drew Theological School. Rabbi Troster was born in Toronto, Canada in 1953. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto and his M.A. and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City.
dcterms:subject	Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American Conservative rabbis Jewish Theological Seminary of America semikhah recipients
abstract	Rabbi Lawrence Troster is Director of the Fellowship program and Rabbinic Scholar-in-Residence for GreenFaith, the interfaith environmental coalition in New Jersey. Rabbi Troster co-chairs the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment of UNEP (United Nations Environment Program). He is also pursuing a D. Min. in Ecological Ministries at Drew Theological School. Rabbi Troster also teaches in the Florence Melton Adult Mini School of the UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey. Previously he was the Jewish Chaplain of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson and an Associate of Bard’s Institute of Advanced Theology. He was also the Rabbinic Fellow of the Coalition On the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL), the Advisor to Students and Adjunct Lecturer in Professional Skills in the Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Program Officer/Educator at the Jewish Life Network, a Steinhardt Fellow at CLAL, and has served as the rabbi of several congregations in New Jersey and Toronto, Canada. Rabbi Troster was born in Toronto, Canada in 1953. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto and his M.A. and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. He is also member of the editorial boards of the journals Conservative Judaism, Judaism, and is a member of the Board of Directors of CrossCurrents. He has published numerous articles and has lectured widely on theology, environmentalism, liturgy, bioethics and Judaism and modern cosmology. Rabbi Troster has appeared on television and radio and in newspapers. He was recently one of the keynote speakers at the Interfaith Creation Festival in Seattle, WA, and in May 2005 presented a paper at a UNEP conference in Tehran, Iran entitled, “The Mountain and the River Valley: Environmentalism as the Foundation of Dialogue Between Civilizations.” (available at [1]) He has also been featured on Air America’s environment program “Eco Talk.”

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software