On June 26, the UN marked the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The message of the Secretary-General for that day was, “We cannot allow the world’s drug problem to further shadow the lives of the tens of…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
The Summer Break Should Not Be a Break
Israel has a lot of children. Out of approximately nine million people, 2.5 million are younger than 18. Tomorrow, July 1st, they will all begin a two-month summer break. While many teenagers work during the summer, many do not, and…
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Posted in Articles, Integral Education, Israel, News
Israel – the Ever-Electing Country
Nearly forty years ago, Jewish thinker Simon Rawidowicz published a book titled Israel – The Ever-Dying People. Since nearly four years ago, Israel has become the ever-electing country. For the fifth time in less than four years, Israel is…
Reopening Coal-fired Plants – When Hate Overpowers Common Sense
After decades of struggling to find climate-friendly alternatives to coal, Europe is forced to return to it after Russia cut its gas exports in retaliation for Europe’s sanctions against it. In a matter of weeks, years of work have been…
Where in Europe Is Good for Jews?
The answer to the question of what are the best places to be Jewish should be an unequivocal “anywhere.” Unfortunately, that is not the case. The fact that such a question was the main topic in a recent study by…
No Point in Having Economists without Accountability
An economist shared with me that there is a saying about economists, that they tell you tomorrow what happened yesterday. With the world drowning in a whirlpool of financial and economic crises, we need economists who can tell us…
Growing Up with Roe v. Wade
Being the child of two doctors, the dedicated kind, who bring their work home, and with my mother being a gynecologist, I often witnessed first hand the complexities that come with a decision to terminate a pregnancy. My mother, who…
What If We Got It All Wrong about the Climate?
What if we got it all wrong about the climate? What would we do if we learned that aerosols that pollute the air also cool it and mitigate the greenhouse effect? Also, what if we were told that volcanic eruptions…
The Global Turbulence of the Travel Industry
Remember the days when traveling was relaxing, exciting? Those memories have been challenged in recent weeks by the chaos experienced at airports around the world, particularly in North America and Europe. A surge of summer passengers, eager and waiting to…
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Posted in Articles, Coronavirus, Global Economy, News
Toward a Fiery Turmoil
Roe v. Wade is overturned and protests erupt, gun laws are revisited, war rages in Ukraine, Sri Lanka’s economy collapses, bank runs in China, escalating tensions between the US and China over Taiwan, an increasingly belligerent North Korea, and a…
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Posted in Articles, Global Economy, News, Ukraine
Of Pope Francis, and of World War III
Last week, a conversation with Pope Francis was published, in which he related to the Russia-Ukraine war as the start of World War III. In a conversation with the editors of European Jesuit publications, and which was first published by…
The Israeli Ideology and the Next Revolution
With all the turmoil happening around the world, it makes one wonder when and where the next revolution might take place, and what ideology it will promote, if any. There is a difference between a coup and a revolution. In…
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