News
Rising Tide Benefit
Cocktails, hors d’oeuvre, and live and silent auctions are featured at the fourth annual summer cocktail party to benefit Rising Tide Therapeutic Equestrian Center on Thursday, August 19 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Held at the home of Rose Styron (53 High Hedge Lane in Vineyard Haven), the party will feature a selection of appetizers prepared by some of the Island’s favorite chefs. Admission is $60 at the door.
Skyrockets Delight
See the fireworks from the sea, help a family secure a home on land: A fireworks cruise to benefit Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard is set for Friday, August 20. The boat leaves the Oak Bluffs Steamship Authority dock at 8 p.m. Tickets are $50 for adults, $35 for children 12 and under when accompanied by an adult. For tickets and more information, go online to habitatmv.org or Craftworks on Circuit avenue. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door.
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum will host a public launch of the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded interactive Web site, Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whale Ship, at the museum library in Edgartown on Saturday, August 14 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Rev. Raphael Warnock returns to the pulpit at the First Congregational Church in West Tisbury as guest minister on Sunday, August 15. He has served as the senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., since 2005. Rev. Warnock graduated from Morehouse College cum laude in 1991, and holds a master of divinity degree, a master of philosophy degree, and a doctor of philosophy degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York city.
Vineyarders Jonathan and Linda M. Haar work in wind power technology, but one thing they share with wind energy opponents is an objection to seeing enormous towers built in pristine places.
And their concern is not just aesthetic, but practical. It would, they reasoned, make much more sense to generate the power as close as possible to where the power is used.
Hence their innovative new turbine, tested for the first time at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport this week: a turbine standing just 20 feet tall, intended to be mounted on city buildings.
The working title of Peter Beinart’s forthcoming book, The Crisis in Liberal Zionism, puts it nicely in a nutshell.
The problem: how do American Jews, who are traditionally overwhelmingly liberal, respond to an Israel which is steadily growing more illiberal and increasingly inclined to pursue policies which many, including Mr. Beinart, believes to be morally indefensible?