Lawrence Troster

Rabbi Lawrence Troster is Director of the Fellowship program and Rabbinic Scholar-in-Residence for GreenFaith, the interfaith environmental coalition in New Jersey. Rabbi Troster co-chairs the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment of UNEP (United Nations Environment Program). He is also pursuing a D. Min. in Ecological Ministries at Drew Theological School.
Rabbi Troster is one of the leading Jewish eco-theologians and religious environmental leaders.
He is also member of the editorial boards of the journals Conservative Judaism,and is a member of the Board of Directors of CrossCurrents.<ref name="jnf"/> He has published numerous articles and has lectured widely on theology, environmentalism, liturgy, bioethics and Judaism and modern cosmology.
Rabbi Troster has appeared on television and radio and in newspapers. He was recently one of the keynote speakers at the Interfaith Creation Festival in Seattle, WA, and in May 2005 presented a paper at a UNEP conference in Tehran, Iran entitled, “The Mountain and the River Valley: Environmentalism as the Foundation of Dialogue Between Civilizations.” (available at ) He has also been featured on Air America’s environment program "Eco Talk".<ref name="jnf"/>
 
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