There is no controversy about the benefits of breast milk, but its politicization is giving us food for thought. The New York Times claimed that the US government unsuccessfully threatened to retaliate against nations backing breastfeeding to favor the $70 billion-dollar infant…
While the first thing on the American mind after the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki is Trump’s comments regarding the Russian election meddling, there is a lot more for the world to worry about when it comes to international relations. The…
“As long as we do not raise our goal above the corporeal life, we will have no corporeal revival.” (Rav Yehuda Ashlag, “Exile and Redemption”) It was a dark Sabbath in southern Israel, with 200 rockets and mortar shells fired…
“The LORD said to Moses, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.” Exodus 32:9 (The Israel Bible™) Over a hundred days of fire in Southern Israeli areas surrounding the Gaza strip, and almost no one cares.…
It is, and always has been, the best food for babies. There is no controversy about the benefits of breast milk, but its politicization is giving us food for thought. The New York Times claimed that the U.S. government unsuccessfully threatened nations…
Is the social media you use made with good intentions? Far from it. A recent BBC investigation opens up about the meticulous work that goes into making social media apps as addictive as possible, and that roughly the third of the world’s…
Today you celebrate your 242nd birthday. You grew from various groups of settlers and separated colonies into the 50 united — and independent — states of America. Freedom is the product you always promoted in the global arena, the brand…
“If a man dies, shall he live again?” Job 14:14 (The Israel Bible™) It happened twenty years ago but I remember it as if it were yesterday. I was driving with a few of my long-time students on a road outside…
Even as a child, long before I knew the wisdom of Kabbalah, I never thought about the upper force as anything similar to a flesh and blood human who consumes food and secretes waste, sweats, gets sick from time to…
How to be happy has become an algorithm hard to decipher. Is it because we are using the wrong formula? Fulfillment does not depend on money, power, or luck, but on positive human relations. This is the principle of the…
When you have an international watchdog that seems to look obsessively in one direction, isn’t it a sign that there is an elephant in the room? The unprecedented move by the U.S. to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council…
Gaming addiction has been classified as a mental health condition by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the WHO, gaming disorder is characterized by a lack of control over gaming, and gaming taking higher priority over other interests and daily activities,…