The Departments of Religion, English, and Political Science, and the Environmental Studies Program, will be sponsoring a lecture titled “Social Justice, Sustainability,  and Stewardship:  Bringing the Sabbatical Year  Beyond the Bible.”  This lecture will be given by Rabbi Carie Carter of the Park Slope Jewish Center in Brooklyn, New York (it is a conservative Jewish synagogue).  The date of the lecture is Tuesday, March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day), 4pm, in the Chancellor’s Suite, University Center.

This lecture focuses on how the Sabbath year, as described in the Hebrew Bible, may extend to issues of environmental justice and sustainability.  For more information, please go to http://www.shu.edu/news/article/503939#.VQHe022XRA4