Jeremy, a native of Toledo, Ohio, moved to Israel over 30 years ago, with a dream of making Israel an inspiring society. That dream led to his co-founding the Heschel Center for Sustainability in Tel Aviv, Israel’s leading organization promoting sustainability based on the Jewish commitment to social justice and the common good. The Center is named for the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, whose writings and teachings are an inspiration in those areas and more. Jeremy holds an AB degree from Harvard, a master’s degree in Judaic Studies and doctorate in cultural anthropology from the Hebrew University on social-environmental activism as a focus of shared citizenship between Jews and Arabs in Israel. He works extensively in leadership development and capacity building with environmental activists and educators in Israel, and has lectured widely (US, Canada, England, Italy, Spain, Turkey) on Judaism, Israel, and the environment. He has led the Hazon-Heschel Israel Sustainable Food Tour for four years. “For me sustainability is so much more than economic efficiency, or a cleaner environment. It’s about building a society that can sustain us and our children, materially and spiritually, now and in the future, together with the awe-inspiring world we live in and are a part of. So I focus on grounding the social-environmental discussion in a deeper context of a societal vision of the common good based on cultural and spiritual values.” He is the author of The Way Into Judaism and the Environment (Jewish Lights, 2006), and is married to Prof. Annabel Herzog, and together with their five children and two cats, live in Zichron Yaakov.