An essay by Dr. Rachel Wagner that argues that video games are addictive, yet they satisfy significant religious needs. In particular, they create an opening for people to think critically about life and provide hope those who feel overwhelmed by racism, sexism and authoritarianism in society’s current structure.

Brant Rosen is rabbi of Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Ill. The congregation rebuilt its building to make it sustainable and moved back into it in February 2008.

Ellen Bernstein is founder of Shomrei Adamah, the first national Jewish environmental organization, founded in 1988.  She is author of The Splendor of Creation: A Biblical Ecology and numerous articles on Judaism and ecology.  She teaches at Hebrew College in Newton, Mass., and consults in the area of religion and ecology.

Katy Z. Allen is rabbi of Ma’yan Tikvah, a “congregation without walls” in the Boston area that connects Judaism to nature and social justice.

The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Conn., is home to a number of environmental programs and an organic farm. Nigel Savage is the president and CEO.

The Jewish Farm School is a Philadelphia-based effort to create a Jewish way of working land.

Read a July 15, 2013, CNN obituary about ‘Glee’ star Cory Monteith.

See an Aug. 31, 2012, article and photo special from The Daily Mail about the 15th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death.

Read an April 5, 2013, article from Christianity Today about the Christian controversy surrounding the Plan B contraceptive.