Science and Ecology

The Passover Egg: Symbol of a Weeping Earth

Coming out of Egypt, the Children of Israel crossed the Sea of Reeds (also known as the Red Sea) walking ...

Travel in your mind to the top of our atmosphere, where Earth’s envelope of life-giving oxygen and nitrogen blends into the cold vacuum of ...

This year Tu Bishvat begins at sundown on January 24, 2016. May the holiday be a catalyst in bringing your ...

I recall standing once in a communal sukkah teaching a group of children about Sukkot. It was a sunny day ...

Every January I reflect on the lessons of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and his good friend Dr. Martin Luther King, ...

I am emotionally fatigued by all the heartbreak of this past summer. I am drained by the tragedy of the ...

Today’s lunch included stir-fryed Purslane. Until two weeks ago, I’d never heard of it or, to my knowledge, tasted it ...

Did you grow up watching Captain Planet? (I didn’t – but that’s a long story; apparently I have some catching ...

As humans and Jews we have a responsibility to take care of the earth.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” -Genesis 1:1 … existence on this planet, a rather ...

Forty percent of food grown in the United States gets wasted. It is left in the fields, doesn’t make it ...

Our basic premise as activists is human responsibility. We, not someone else, must step up to create change in the ...