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Israel News Dead Sea Drying Fast, a Sign of Trouble
Scientists drilling into the Dead Sea bed have discovered that the sea, now drying up because of climate change and overuse, dried up once before on its own. The process, which happened long ago without human intervention, is now going much faster because of global warming, which most scientists think is caused by human activity….
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Culture Today’s Noah
What if Noah had been an exemplary spiritual leader and not just, as the Torah tells us, a righteous person by the standards of his own generation? Picture Noah as a true prophet of his time, a man who knows that God is about to destroy the world. Such a person would have done far…
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Opinion Int’l Scientific Parley Mulls Slowing Warming by Blocking Sun: Giant Mirrors, Very Long Hose
The Associated Press has a fascinating, must-read report today about an international gathering of scholars convened last month by Britain’s Royal Society to consider the last-ditch prospect of preventing global warming by developing ways of blocking out the sun. The meeting brought together 80 earth and atmospheric scientists, legal and political scholars and philosophers to…
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Opinion More Scientists Weigh In on Climate, Hunger & N. African Unrest
New climate research indicates that food shortages caused by climate change are creating a tide of “environmental refugees” heading northward, along with unrest in the stricken countries. The Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions are the latest indication of what’s to come. Yes, the yearning for democracy plays a role, but food and climate change are a…
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Books Margaret Atwood Rejects Cultural Boycott of Israel
As we saw with the Batsheva Dance Company in 2009 and the Jerusalem Quartet in March, when it comes to Israel, even the most straightforward arts organizations have the potential to become the subjects of political controversy. The most recent flare-up centered around Canadian author Margaret Atwood, who accepted the Dan David Prize for literature…
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