Rabbi Micah Streiffer

Rabbi Micah Streiffer serves as spiritual leader of Congregation Kol Ami, in Thornhill, ON. His writings, both nonfiction and fiction, have appeared the Times of Israel, The Forward, Jewish Values Online, The Jewish Literary Journal, The Canadian Jewish News, and a number of Reform Jewish publications. He sends special thanks to his son, Noam Streiffer, the family’s primary Star Wars expert, for helping him come up with which character fits each description.

Tu Bishvat: Doing Something About It.

Rabbi Micah Streiffer
January 29, 2010

I consider myself an environmentalist. I write about the earth, think about the earth, care about the earth. I wrote my rabbinical thesis partly on Judaism and the environment, and I helped found en environmental advocacy committee in my synagogue.