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Defying Entropy (Tu Bishvat 5781)
It takes just 13 seconds to chop down a tree with an ax. If you must know, New Zealander David Bolstad holds the world record of...


Drowning in a Flood of Instant Gratification (Tu Bishvat 5780)
Stav Harari and Dean Shoshani, both 25, had just started their lives together in a new apartment in the colorful Hatikvah Quarter in...


Did Judaism Wreck the Planet? (Tu Bishvat 5779)
Antisemites think Jews cause everything bad. We’re to blame for capitalism and communism, ethnocentric nationalism and rootless...


Tu Bishvat: Rousseau’s Social Contract and the Carob Tree
Our obligations extend to both past and future. Almost all modern societies are based on variations of a single concept: the “Social...


Ecophilia: Tu Bishvat 5777
Lake Valencia in Venezuela was once a beautiful place. Nestled among mountains and sierras, and blessed by a humid and temperate climate,...
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