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__//This report was written by students in the Esh Advisory, after meeting// //with Jordyn// //Rozensky, the JCRC's Director of Young Adult Programs//__

Environmental Injustice

Today, MLK Day, Jordyn from JCRC came in to talk to us about about enviromental injustices, like the water shortage in Israel. She is the coordinating director of Reach Out, a branch of the JCRC, Jewish Communty Relations Center, as a volunteer who works with many people all over the world and does fun activities with them that help the enviroment. A few months ago she and fifty other volunteers went to the Charles River and pulled out over four tons of water chestnuts (about seven elephant's worth). This helped the environment because water chestnuts strangle the other plants around and are very bad for the water and they are not supposed to grow in this area.

You might be asking "How does this connect to MLK?" To quote him "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" We also learrned how to stand up to all of injustices. Whether envirmental, social, or some other type. (Yes, it's cheesy) But all injustice must be stopped and are directly corrolated.

Jordyn worked at a kibbutz in southern Israel called Kibbutz Ketora while in graduate school at Brandeis University. In Israel she studied the Dead Sea and how to preserve it by putting in more water, because it shrunk 30% and has been losing one meter every year. She is trying to find a way to provide more water for Israel and the Dead Sea. Jordyn is named after the river in Isreal which is very polluted; her Hebrew name is Adamah which means earth. This makes her feel very connected to saving the earth and Israel.

We agree with Jordyn and support what she does. Her work is very thoughtful and interesting. It also connects to Israel in a very positive way.