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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, received his B.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, a 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. He completed his clinical training in family therapy at the American Institute of Family Relations in Los Angeles and studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich Switzerland and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2003 he received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Rabbi Stone is known nationally for his leadership on Religion and the Environment. He is the founding chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbis’ Committee on the Environment. Rabbi Stone represented many national Jewish organizations as the Jewish United Nations delegate at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Kyoto, Japan in 1997, and, again, in 2009, in Copenhagen, Denmark, UNCOP15, where he blew the Shofar and led a number of interfaith programs and prayer vigils.
He serves as co-chair of the National Religion Coalition on Creaton Care and on the International Advisory Board for Earthday International. 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 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 served 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 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 has had articles published in the Washington Jewish Week, Reform Judaism Magazine, Central Conference of American Rabbis Journal. His article, "A Jewish Response to Climate Change", was published in The Climate Institute's book, Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change. His abstract, "Climate Change Beyond Diplomacy: Thinking Outside the Box," was presented at the International Congress of Scientists in Cophenhagen and served as a paper for the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, December 2009.
Rabbi Stone is married to Elaine Stone, an attorney, and has two daughters, Naomi and Lia, and a son, Zach, and lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
E-mail: RabbiStone@TempleEmanuelmd.org
