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Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jan 23, 2026, 8:57 AM

Joseph, Moses, Environmental Damage, Political Revolution

The Israeli government just announced that it is considering withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change and other international environmental bodies -- and this a mere week after its Environmental Ministry warned of rising sea levels causing salty...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Oct 17, 2025, 7:26 AM

The Book of Genesis in Light of Climate Change

The Gaza War has captured Israel’s headlines these past two years. America, meanwhile has its own internal “fighting” (ICE anti-immigration raids, National Guards “invading” Democratic cities, etc.). Unfortunately, all this has diverted our attention from this century’s biggest story. Climate...

Reuven Chaim Klein

Oct 4, 2025, 11:26 PM

All Shook Up – chareid, rogez, ra’ash, and ga’ash

In Part I of this mini-series, we discussed the rhyming words chil, zachil, and dachil all of which refer to the state of being scared and the physical effects of such a feeling. In part 2, we encountered the...

Reuven Chaim Klein

Sep 28, 2025, 12:10 AM

Shaking with Breaking – ra’adah, ziyah, and retet

In Part I of this mini-series, we discussed the rhyming words chil, zachil, and dachil all of which refer to the state of being scared and the physical effects of such a feeling. In this essay, we will treat...

Noga Levtzion Nadan

Jun 30, 2025, 4:34 PM

The writing was on the ammonia tank

Israeli security forces and emergency teams work next to an unpopulated building after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran, in Haifa, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

The risks of the mass disaster that was averted in Haifa are not jokes, but warnings of calamities that could shut down the entire region for years

May 10, 2025, 8:48 AM

Climate Change, Frankenstein’s Monster and the HEP HEP Riots of 1819 (Part 2)

(Part 2 of 2) Not only was the language and conceptual constructs of anti-semitism not at the disposal of the HEP HEP agitators, but neither was the whole library of racial literature and theory. It would be another forty years...

May 8, 2025, 2:36 PM

Climate Change, Frankenstein’s Monster and the HEP HEP Riots of 1819 (Part 1 of 2)

I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went-and...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Apr 30, 2025, 6:38 AM

Good news: climate change is tanking capitalism

How is that good news? So far, greed seems to be the main incentive to deny climate change. But if the whole financial system threatens to collapse, we finally might have the news that could awaken the money hoarders, telling them...

Nicole Zhiqing Tan

Apr 3, 2025, 7:08 PM

Meditations, Mercies, and the Global Stage

Dear readers, Psalm 5 calls us to lift our voices to God in the morning, seeking His guidance and rejoicing in His righteousness. The psalmist paints a vivid picture of divine justice—a God who shields the faithful and abhors wickedness....

Feb 25, 2025, 6:36 AM

NECHAMA is Replanting Hope for Tu Bi’Shvat

Jewish tradition teaches us that humans are like trees: “Ki ha’adam etz hasadeh” (for the human is like the tree of the field). As trees need strong roots, care, and nourishment to thrive, so do we. This connection to the...

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