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Al Gore, Our Modern Day Noah
By
Rabbi Susan Grossman
Last Shabbat we read about how God commanded Noah to collect an ark load of the Earth’s biodiversity and ride out the mother of all storms, which cleansed the earth. When Noah and his family finally emerged from the ark to a fresh new world, God makes a covenant with them and seals it with…
The Environment & the Noah Story: Lessons for Today
By
Rabbi Eliyahu Stern
In Judaism we tend to think that God’s promise to Noah after the flood means that the world will never be destroyed. But all God says is that “He” will never destroy the world through rain. “We” on the other hand are a whole other story. As of now, our behavior of excess and rampant…
What Exactly Is a Christian Nation, Anyway?
By
Rabbi Joshua Waxman
In thinking about Senator John McCain’s comments in his interview with Beliefnet— that America is a Christian nation–I spent some time online trying to figure out what the substance of the label is. Certainly ‘Christian nation’ sounds like it should be a clear concept, but I’m not sure that it is. And the various evangelical…
McCain, Is Religion Your Blankie?
By
Rabbi Eliyahu Stern
John McCain 2000: Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and a few Washington leaders of the pro-life movement call me an unacceptable presidential candidate. They distort my pro-life positions and smear the reputations of my supporters. Why? Because I don’t pander to them. John McCain on Beliefnet 2008: I would probably have to say yes, that the…
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