Green and Just Celebrations: A Purchasing Guide for California’s Jewish Families
by Matthew Dimond and Sarah Leiber Church
Based with much appreciation on the Washington D.C. Guide, by Rebecca Shaloff and Joelle Novey, with Darya Mattes and Jacob Feinspan
Illustrations by Mike Swartzbeck (www.swartzbeck.com)

Special thanks to:
Rachel Levinson-Emley, Julia Glassman, Aaron Phillips and Kate Smallenburg

We appreciate the suggestions and ideas from our California contributors:
Avital Aboody
Jaime Rapaport Barry
Tim Barry
Elissa Barrett
Rachel  Bello
Sarah Bunin Benor
Rachel Biale
Sara Bolder
Denah Bookstein
Gabriel Botnick
Rachel Brodie
Devorah Brous
Daniel Cardozo
Liz Cattaneo
Aryeh Cohen
Talia Cooper
Rabbi Menachem Creditor
Gerardo Dominguez
Will Fein
Josh Feldman
Malka Fenyvesi
Cory Fischer
Liana Foxvog
Lisa Gershony
Rachel Gold
Eric Greene
Andrea Hodos
Anne Hromadka
Vicki Karlan
Dawn Kepler
Mara Lasky
Zachary Lazarus
Laurie Leiber
Jeff Levy
Jenni Mangel
Debra Sagan Massey
Jonathan Matz
Josh Miller
Ayana Morse
Kim  Newstadt
Christine Oppenheim
Arnon Oren
Carole Pearson
Sharon Priven
Robert Ratner
Sandy Rechtschaffen
Judith Reich
Rabbi Elizabeth Richman
Devorah Rosner
Ilana Schatz
Karen Lichtenberg Scher
Robyn Scherr
Teddy Seidman
Alexander Sharone
Rachel Shoemake
Natalie Stern
Trina Tocco
Igor Tregub
Jonathan Troen
Lawrence Weber
Rabbi Cheryl Weiner
Elizabet Wendt
David Zebker


And thanks to those who contributed to the DC version of the Guide:
Russ Agdern
Mackenzie Baris
Rabbi Janet Ozur Bass
Laura Bellows
Julie Farb Blain
Franca Brilliant
Rivka Burstein-Stern
Liz Carty
Joel Coffidis
Alys Cohen
Jonathan Cohen
Darin Dalmat
Beth Davidson
Aaron Dorfman
Ben Dreyfus
Sariel Ende-Alonzo
Jayme Epstein
Jennifer Errick
Suzanne Feinspan
Shira Fischer

Shalom Flank
Jay Freedman
Diana Friedman
Naomi Friedman
Rabbi Joshua Ginsberg
Sally Gottesman
Alisa Gravitz
Brenda Gruss
Gael Hammer
Viva Hammer
Kate Hankins
Rabbi Doug Heifetz
Lisa Hofstetter
Rabbi Jill Jacobs
Miriam Joffe-Block
Rena Kane
Beth Kanter-Leibowitz
Eli Kasargod-Staub
Andrew Korfhage
Devora Kimelman-Block




 

Emma Kippley-Ogman
Rabbi Deb Kolodny
Steven Krieger
Rabbi Gilah Langner
Lori Leibowitz
Sarah Lesser
Rachel Lettre
Michele Levy
Tracy Lingo
Ilana Lipsett
Frank Locantore
Paula Wertheim Luxenberg
Laura Menyuk
Ethan Merlin
Beth Meyers
Robin Metalitz
 Mishelle Miller
Rabbi Tamara Miller
Rabbi Jack Moline
Beth Novey

David Pansegrouw
Beth Richie
Barb Richman
Adina Rosenbaum
Katie Schenk
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb
Sara Sennett
Lindsey Paige Savoie
Holly Shere
Susanna Shapiro
Marilyn Sneiderman
Rabbi Alana Suskin
Diane Tepfer
Betsy Platkin Teutsch
Jeffrey Veidlinger
Tali Weinberg
Sonya Weisburd
 David Zinner
Julia Zuckerman





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