Adamah's Bruce Spierer on grief, climate anxiety, and what Tisha B'Av teaches us about facing a warming world together.

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This year, wildfire smoke made the climate crisis impossible to ignore — for entire communities, and for Bruce Spierer personally. As Director of Adamah's Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition, Bruce spends his days thinking about the relationship between Jewish tradition and the environment. But this Tisha B'Av, that thinking got personal.

In this conversation, Adamah's Director of Marketing and Communications, Sarah VanderWalde, sits down with Bruce to talk about how he personally observes Tisha B'Av, what it's like to run climate work at a national Jewish organization during an active wildfire season, why so many people — especially young people — feel quietly overwhel ...