UNESCO’s theme for this year’s International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, occurring January 27, is “From Words to Genocide: anti-Semitic Propaganda and the Holocaust.” The goal of the debates on this day is to “examine the…
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (2nd R) and his wife Melania take the stage with Vice President-elect Mike Pence (L) and his wife Karen at a pre-inauguration candlelight dinner with supporters at Union Station in Washington, U.S. January 19, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan…
To make peace (shalom) means to make whole (shalem), when opposites unite and create something that is neither, yet consists of both. Smashed windows and “Impeach!” “Putin’s B–ch!” “Not My President!” signs were frequent vistas at the Women’s March…
Inside the Microsoft Vision Center café at Davos, the rich, powerful and famous leisurely engage in conversations over coffee, wine, and an occasional pastry. Nothing glitzy, just the usual small talk of people passing time. On one of the walls…
As a Kabbalist, specializing in the intricacies of human nature, I know that as the situation in Europe worsens, and it will, the pressure on the Jews will grow. The hatred toward them will soar and they will undoubtedly be…
Tensions around the inauguration are of unseen precedence. This is a telling moment for us all. In the days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, we have been witnessing displays of extreme resistance by many trying to somehow find a way to…
We can make Donald Trump’s inauguration the start of a new future, now all it takes is our determination. Today, Donald Trump becomes the 45th President of the United States. But I am still not sure if we should…
Depression, violence, substance abuse, alienation and isolation are symptoms of the self-entitlement epidemic. Humanity’s final frontier is not to conquer space, but to conquer the space between us. Earlier this month, an unsubstantiated BuzzFeed dossier claiming to contain compromising information…
Just as healing the body requires diagnosing the illness, curing society requires social “recognition of evil.” Since November 9, when the Democratic Party woke up to a new reality, where they are not at the helm, there has been…
Cologne’s mayor, Henriette Reker, has been lambasted this week for her “keep an arm’s length” advice to German women, in the wake of New Year’s apparently coordinated mass sexual assaults, when, according to The Guardian, “Scores of women say they were…
Following the jihadist attack on a kippa [Jewish skull-cap] wearing Jewish teacher in Marseille, the president of the city’s Jewish community, Zvi Ammar, advised French Jews to leave their kippas at home. In my view, it is time for the Israeli Foreign Office to…
2016 was a year many people would gladly forget. The question is, “What will it take to make 2017 better?” Thousands of victims of international terrorism, mass-migration, the Iran deal, the Zika virus, Brexit stuns the UK, Donald Trump stuns…