Nature | The Blogs

Apply for a Blog

Stephen Horenstein

Nov 13, 2018, 12:04 PM

Green is NOT for Sale!

View of the vegetation and the flowers at a park in Dublin.

I woke up this morning craving nature, its swaths of green, above and below. I have always loved green. It's the Valium of the earth. Unfortunately I grew up in a green world of many shades. Unfortunately American money is...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Nov 9, 2018, 6:04 AM

The smell of Eden

Dov Halickman

In Parshat Toldot (Breisheet 27:15), Rivka dresses Yaakov in Esav’s garments in order to make sure that Yaakov receives the better blessing: “Rivka took the garments of Esav, her elder son, that were coveted (hachamudot), that were in her...

Stephen Horenstein

Nov 7, 2018, 10:45 AM

Elections and Birdsongs

8 AM Israel Time We are now receiving news that the US House of Representatives has been "liberated", and the Senate remains under central command. For me this is good news. I opt for balance of powers as well as...

Nov 4, 2018, 11:54 AM

In pursuit of God and myself on Mt. Everest

Joining the trek was terrifying, but celebrating the vitality and wonder of creation was slowly transformative

Stephen Horenstein

Nov 1, 2018, 10:50 AM

Soundscape of Jerusalem — No. 1

My Tree House

Prelude: Election Day. I hear an occasional horn and garbled words hooting for one or the other. I sit in my hermit's hideout, up in the trees. I do my civic duty, voting early morning. The guy in cal-pi-voting...

Susannah Schild

Oct 29, 2018, 2:35 PM

Why Pray for Rain

Despite an ongoing drought, technology enables us to have all the water we need to survive. Is there anything left to pray for?

It’s that time of year again. The temperatures are dropping, leaves are beginning to change color, and many days, the sky is filled with gray clouds. To many of us, this change of the seasons signifies something else: a change...

Oct 26, 2018, 12:43 AM

Meet Haifa People: a visit to an art studio

Shulamit and I met at the open studio day in her home-based studio. It felt like going back to a place I already knew. This place was strangely familiar to me. I have been following her studio’s social media accounts...

Oct 25, 2018, 9:42 PM

Sodom’s Destruction and the Dead Sea

The lone pillar on Mount Sodom has been associated with Lot's wife who was turned into a pillar of salt when she turned back to look at the destroyed city of Sodom.

Mount Sodom in the Judean Desert provides its visitors and hikers with a stunning view over the Dead Sea that brings to life one of the Bible's most infamous stories. Known in Arabic as Jabl al-Sdum, this mountain has...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Oct 12, 2018, 8:04 AM

Natural disasters are not that natural

Toll and damage from natural disasters are up and we need to blame Chance, Nature or G^d, depending on our worldview, no? Well, not so quickly. Even in Noach's time, the rabbis teach us, the Flood was caused by humans...

Oct 7, 2018, 10:11 PM

Fear of fossils

Painting of Mary Anning from the National History Museum, London. (Public Domain/ Wikimedia Commons)

Did the Flood confuse scientific dating of the age of earth?

Load more