Mass shootings in general are a tragic phenomenon that explode out of the increasing tensions in society today. Also, as reported today by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, that the shooters targeted the kosher deli on which they opened fire, and that…
The way to eliminate anti-Semitism in the United States is the same as how to solve anti-Semitism anywhere in the world: to raise awareness of the root cause of anti-Semitism in order to invert hatred into love. Kabbalistic sources explain…
“I bow my head before the victims of the Shoah,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her first visit to Auschwitz in the 14 years she has been in office. Her gesture emerged amid the backdrop of the debate between upholders of…
A new year is about to begin, and a guarantee of global security is not appearing on the horizon. On the contrary, the world is facing an unprecedented amalgamation of challenges on cybersecurity, wars, massive migrations, and rising nuclear and…
Not only can Jews be anti-Semites, they can be the biggest and most severe kind of anti-Semites. Why? It is because we Jews have a point that connects us to humanity’s corrected and unified state—“love your neighbor as yourself”—which we…
It is a political move on her part. Politicians make such moves not according to emotion, but according to what’s more worthwhile for them and their party. So I am sure that Angela Merkel and other people involved accordingly made…
THIS IS WHAT A HANUKKAH FOR HUMANITY (NOT JUST JEWS) LOOKS LIKE Hanukkah Is a Pit Stop on Life’s Race Track, Coming from the Words “Hanu” (“Park”) and “Koh” (“Here”). The more we advance, the more we encounter such stops.…
The last couple of weeks, everybody has been talking about Black Friday, but I wasn’t moved to shop. Retailers reported record sales, the largest in US history, on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which reached a combined $16.8 billion this year. American consumerism has…
Consumerism never fulfills us. On the contrary, we become emptier the more we run after materialistic pleasures, where each fulfillment we receive after each purchase soon after turns into emptiness. Our nature, the desire to enjoy—where we constantly seek to…
Take a step back to view human society worldwide as a human body for a moment, and what would you see? You would see its immune system hardly functioning, and the organs that should be forming a unified and healthy…
We Jews are people with an augmented ego, which lessens our feeling of others, and increases our feeling of ourselves. Where does this augmented ego come from? It comes from us Jews having once experienced heightened states of unity, starting…
Anxiety has spread among UK’s Jews over Labour’s potential victory in two weeks. For the first time in history, a prominent voice within the British Jewish community urges to refrain from voting for the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, a politician with a…