Rabbi Warren Stone has served as rabbi of Temple Emanuel in the Washington metropolitan area in Kensington, Maryland since 1988, Rabbi Stone came to the Washington area after serving congregations in California and Texas.

Rabbi Stone, from the Boston area, was a graduate of Brandeis University where he received his B.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies with honors. He received his M.A.H.L. and Rabbinic Ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and a D. Min. in Religion and Psychotherapy from Andover Newton Theological School in the Boston area and clinical training at the American Institute of Family Relations in Los Angeles. He received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in March 2003.

Rabbi Stone is known nationally for his leadership on Religion and the Environment. He is the founding and current chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbis’ Committee on the Environment. In 1997, Rabbi Stone represented many national Jewish organizations as the sole Jewish United Nations delegate at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Kyoto, Japan where he blew the Shofar and led a number of interfaith programs and prayer vigils. He also serves as Co-chair of the Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation. He has led delegations on environmental issues to the Congress and White House. Rabbi Stone was honored with opening a session of the U.S. Congress in 1998. In 2002, he co-chaired a Senate conference with Senator Joseph Lieberman and members of the native Gwinchin people calling for a protection of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge. He has spoken several times at rallies at the U.S. Capital on environmental issues. He also serves as Co-chair of the Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation as well as Co-chair of the Religious Coalition on Creation Care. Rabbi Stone has led interfaith delegations on climate change and environmental issues to the Congress, the White House and the World Bank. He has spoken at the British Embassy at their US Consulates gathering on Climate Security and has given the opening prayer to Earth Day in 2008 at the U.S. Capitol as well as being interviewed at Temple Emanuel on NBC's Today Show and the Politico Newspaper in Washington. Grist Internet Environmental Media source did an extensive interview with the Rabbi, and named Rabbi Warren Stone as one of the world's top 15 green religious leaders. He has received a distinguished merit award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews and a Merit award for his work on Judaism and the Environment from Shomre Adamah of Washington, D.C.

Rabbi Stone has served on many boards including the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, the Washington Board of Rabbis where he is past President, ARZA/ World Union and the advisory board for the District of Columbia Green Faith Initiative. He served as Vice President of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, on the board of the United Nations Association and on the advisory board of the new Religious Partnership for the Anacostia and was elected to serve on the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington. Rabbi Stone has also served as the Rabbi at the National Cathedral at the national memorial service for the Columbia Space Shuttle astronauts and was one of the first guests on the national media program: Religion and Ethics Weekly.

Rabbi Stone has had articles published in the Washington Jewish Week, Reform Judaism Magazine, Central Conference of American Rabbis Journal and has given numerous interviews for national and international journals. He has received a Distinguished Merit Award from the National Conference for Community and Justice and has been honored for his work on Judaism and the Ecology.

Rabbi Stone is married to Elaine Stone, a criminal attorney and has three children; Naomi, Lia and Zachary and lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

E-mail: RabbiStone@TempleEmanuelmd.org

Links:

• ARZA - Association of Reform Zionists of America
  
  
• Brandeis University - Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
  
  
• Climate Change Treaty - October, 1997 UN Conference on Climate Change in Kyoto, Japan
  
  
• COEJL - Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
  
  
• Declaration of Interdependence - By American Citizens of Faith Calling for Responsible Stewardship of God’s Creation
  
  
• Green Faith Guide
  In 2004, the DC Energy Office published the Green Faith Guide*, a rich resource to help the 600-plus religious congregations in the District become more energy efficient and environmentally sustainable. This was part of the Green Faith Initiative, which reached out to this important community to promote the benefits of environmental stewardship and energy efficiency. The initiative has now expanded to encompass the nonprofit sector of DC.
  
  
• Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington.
  
  
• Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in New York
  
  
• NCCJ National Conference for Community and Justice
  
  
• Nation's Largest Jewish Organization Hails Clinton Administration Efforts to Protect Our Nation's Pristine Forest Heritage
  
  
• A Passover Seder Reading
  Dipping Parsley into Waters of Tears: The Earth Cries Out to Us
  
  
• Religious Partnership for the Anacostia
  
  
• Solar Ner Tamid Temple Emanuel's Solar Panels!