The Personal Price of Social Indifference

Posted on March 3, 2021

People today seem to care about almost nothing. We are indifferent to entire sectors of society that are suffering, unless something directly impacts us on a personal level. We watch the news, get upset and grumble, and that’s the extent…

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Stay-at-Home (grownup) Children

Posted on March 3, 2021

According to Pew Research Center, “A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression.” In the 1960s, only 29 percent of young adults lived with their parents. Over…

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Covid- a Catalyst for Social Change

Posted on March 2, 2021

While everyone is rushing to get vaccinated, or, alternatively, declaring that the vaccines are a government scheme against the people, we seem to be ignoring something very important: why the virus showed up in the first place. Until we answer…

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The Case against Cancel Culture

Posted on March 1, 2021

One of the most injurious consequences of the effort to maintain political correctness is what’s become known as “cancel culture.” Basically, it means that if someone says or writes something that is not in line with the PC (political correctness)…

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How We Can Stop Substance Abuse

Posted on February 26, 2021

Nearly fifty years ago, on June 18, 1971, then president Richard Nixon declared that drug abuse was “public enemy number one.” But half a century later, we can declare that the war on drugs is a lost cause. Drugs are…

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The Purim Holiday: The Emergence of a Renewed World

Posted on February 24, 2021

Every new state is born only under the condition that the former state completely exhausts itself. The holiday of Purim symbolizes the turning point the world is immersed in now as a result of the pandemic. Thus, this year’s celebration…

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The Way the Pandemic Has Strengthened Religious Beliefs

Posted on February 23, 2021

When one cannot come to terms with a somber reality, looking towards heaven is an instinctive reaction. In the US, half a million lives have been lost in the COVID-19 pandemic in a year since the outbreak of the virus.…

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Is Nature Sentient?

Posted on February 20, 2021

People who believe in God the way religions relate to Him attribute to Him feelings and thoughts, and communicate with Him the way we communicate with any powerful individual who determines our fate: We aim to please Him, and in…

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Have We Seen the Last of Covid?

Posted on February 19, 2021

The State of Israel is quickly approaching the fifty-percent mark of population that has received the second shot of the Covid vaccine. The country is reopening schools, gyms, movie theaters, malls, and hotels. Have we seen the last of Covid?…

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The Cold Spell- Nature’s Cold Shoulder

Posted on February 18, 2021

The extreme cold spell that the US is currently experiencing is truly historic. But then, so is everything these days. The American society has never been so divided, at least not since The Civil War, gaps between the haves and…

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