Hurricane Sandy
I’ve Got Friends in Low-lying Places . . .Thursday, December 6, 2012 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
It would be tragic if Israel were to lose the vote of any of its few reliable supporters at the UN, but that is just what might happen over the next few years—not due to any political intrigue but on account of global warming.
A Jewish View of HurricanesThursday, November 1, 2012 by Moshe Sokolow | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
With school closed, transportation suspended, and the local park off limits, I cast about for something other than “work” to fill the day. My thoughts turned to the weather, and I asked myself whether Judaism has anything instructive to say about hurricanes.
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Does Klal Yisrael Work Both Ways? Stephen G. Donshik, eJewish Philanthropy. When European or Israeli Jews are in crisis, American Jews send money. So where is the aid from Israeli and European Jews for the Jewish victims of Hurricane Sandy?
Fearing the Flood Avi Steinberg, New Yorker. Underneath all of the scientific predictions and vast technological apparatus monitoring Hurricane Sandy lay an ancient biblical fear—of the Deluge.
Elegy for a Tree Barry Kornblau, Torah Musings. For the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: A rabbi eulogizes a downed tree. It is no accident, he says, that Proverbs describes the Torah as a “tree of life.”