Blogs
Global warming vs climate change: Examining how these terms relate to each other
Blog: Matthew Mausner and Yonatan Neril - Global warming and climate change are two terms that are often used interchangeably, but they actually have distinct meanings.
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Flash Floods and Our World
Blog: Yonatan Neril and Elisheva Malomet - Flash floods can occur in as little as minutes or an hour, but their devastation can last months or decades. Triggered and intensified by...
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Examining Some of the Pros and Cons of Globalization
Blog: Matthew Mausner and Yonatan Neril - Our world has become much “smaller” and more interconnected in just the last generation. The rise and acceleration of globalization has ushered in vast...
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Be Fruitful and Multiply and Fill the Earth: Until When?
Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - I asked the former Anglican Archbishop of Burundi whether God’s statement to the first human beings, to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth,” still...
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When we became the weather
Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - I am fortunate to have survived several flash floods. I ran for my life up a hill in northern India when floodwaters swept through.
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Why I Like To Compost, and Why Noah Did Too
Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - There’s something earthy about seeing my food peelings become soil that connects me to the circular nature of life.
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What Does God Have to do with Disposables?
Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - A few months ago, I went swimming in the warm waters of the Mediterranean Sea on the coast of Israel. As I swam, I kept getting...
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Animals, Religious Ethics, and What We Eat
Blog: Rainer Hagencord and Tanja Mancinell - In the beginning, God created heaven and earth, light, water, vegetation and - even before humans - all the animals in the sky, on...
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The Vaccine and Fighting the Pandemic’s Roots
Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - The new COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out offer us the promise of returning to normal, getting back to work and school and the lives we had...
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How Much More Tar Needs to be Spilled to Awaken Us?
Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - On February 21, the Israeli Ministries of Environmental Protection, the Interior and Health jointly asked the public to refrain from going to any Mediterranean beaches on...
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What Does God Have To Do With Solar Energy?
Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - I pray in a synagogue in Jerusalem with solar panels on the roof. While people have prayed in buildings — and times in history — both...
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Environmental Justice and Religion
Blog: Quinn McVeigh - Environmental racism is a key focus of the environmental justice movement. It refers to not only a disproportionate access to environmental benefits such as clean air and...
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