After 300 repetitive years, things can get boring
Martin WestermanApr 26, 2012
SABERS have been rattling in Persia for nearly 3000 years, so this latest Iran flare-up looks boringly repetitive. Jews have spent most of their existence around warring...
Is the Earth approaching its doomsday?
Martin WestermanMar 22, 2012
If the world as we knew it was going to end, what would you tell your loved ones? Religious fundamentalists might find the End of Days prospect comforting: foretold in...
Purim: The Book on Renewable Energy
Martin WestermanMar 01, 2012
WHAT if everything you knew about something was wrong? Would you cling to what you knew anyway, even in the face of new information? Heres the news: fossil...
Tu b’Shevat and the environment
Martin WestermanJan 26, 2012
Its cheaper to buy local, organic foods than industrially produced ones except the savings are invisible. Invisible, that is, to anyone who doesnt buy, handle...
Hey Buddy: Can you spare a zuz?
Martin WestermanDec 29, 2011
Next holiday season, you might consider buying your presents without US dollars. When you decide to buy something, you can also choose what you buy it with. Its legal...
The promise we billions don’t have to keep
Martin WestermanNov 24, 2011
Is it ethical to burden future generations with the environmental mess this generation created? From a Jewish perspective, the answer is No. Were constantly...
Food-rich blessings, over-eating curse
Martin WestermanNov 10, 2011
The harvest festival of Sukkot has passed and the feasting holidays of Thanksgiving and Chanukah approach. Lets thank our farming and herding ancestors for helping...
High Holidays in Eden
Martin WestermanSep 28, 2011
Jews have been stressing about G-ds will vs. free will, and the ideal vs. the pragmatic ever since G-d expelled humans from Eden for eating a Tree of Knowledge...
The new earth
Martin WestermanSep 15, 2011
IN summer of 2006, I asked a highly placed Israeli source this question: Whats with Olmert?! New Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was botching the Lebanon war,...
The people of sustainable impact
Martin WestermanAug 04, 2011
ON July 4 last year, we were huddling around fires to keep warm in Seattle. This year, weve had 78 minutes of summer so far (i.e., temperatures over 80 degrees)....
