A Message from COEJL

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The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life and Earth Aid Enterprises are proud to partner in offering Earth Aid Kits to the COEJL community. The Earth Aid Kit is a collection of premium energy efficiency products carefully selected to improve your quality of life while reducing your energy bill and your carbon footprint. Whether you or your friends are taking first steps to help protect the Earth or looking for new energy-savings items to compliment your previous actions, Earth Aid kits provide all the tools you need.  All greenhouse gas reductions achieved by these purchases are credited to COEJL and the Jewish community! This partnership will continue through 2008.

Upon fighting off the forces bent on destroying them in Persia so long ago, the people of Israel observed the celebration of their victory as "days of feasting and merrymaking, and as an occasion for sending gifts of food (mishloach manot) to one another and presents to the poor (matanot l’evyonim)" (Esther, 9: 22). We too are facing a force bent on destroying us: only this time, it is not an arch-enemy, but we ourselves. And as with the Jews of Persia, salvation rests not on the miraculous intervention of God, but the daily engagement of each and every Jew. Earth Aid Kits are a perfect way to merge these messages of personal responsibility and communal salvation; to merge environmentally and socially responsible action with the traditions of Purim. Give a gift of energy efficiency to yourself or a friend. In addition, soon you will be able to donate kits to low-income seniors.