Two Centers for the Jewish People? Perhaps, but with a Caveat

Posted on September 25, 2020

It is no secret that over the years, the relationship between American Jewry and the State of Israel has had its ups and downs. In recent years, it has had more downs than ups. Today, it’s at a point where…

Tagged with: Facebook, Jews Down Under
Posted in antisemitism, Articles, Donald Trump, Jewish

How We “Earned” Being Covid’s Prime Target

Posted on September 25, 2020

What timing! In the first wave of Covid-19, we spent Passover in lockdown and didn’t get to celebrate it with our extended families, the way Jewish families have been doing for centuries. I warned then that unless we learn the…

Tagged with: Facebook, LinkedIn, San Diego Jewish World, The Times of Israel
Posted in antisemitism, Articles, Coronavirus, Jewish, News

A Yom Kippur Prayer that Will Be Heard

Posted on September 24, 2020

Regarding good and evil—“No matter how we behave or where we are, we will get away with anything in the end because God is good and benevolent to our people.” That is the usual Jewish calculation for Yom Kippur, the…

Tagged with: Facebook, Jewish Boston, LinkedIn, Thrive Global
Posted in Articles, Jewish, News, Social Mutual Responsibility

Undesirable Dependence

Posted on September 24, 2020

Suddenly, we can’t escape our dependence on others. We don’t want to be dependent on others, but if they are not careful, they could infect me, and if I am not careful, I could infect them. How can I protect…

Tagged with: Facebook, LinkedIn, Medium
Posted in Articles, Coronavirus, Integral Education, News

For the World Economic Forum to Realize “The Great Reset,” They Must Reset the Ego

Posted on September 23, 2020

This week, the World Economic Forum is convening with a lofty goal in mind. In its statement, it declares: “There is an urgent need for global stakeholders to cooperate in simultaneously managing the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. To…

Tagged with: Facebook, LinkedIn, Medium
Posted in Articles, Coronavirus, Global Economy, News

Moving Out Over Virus, Never to Return

Posted on September 22, 2020

All over the world, people are moving out from the coronavirus-struck city centers into the suburbs and beyond, to the country or even to different countries. Within a few months from the outbreak of the pandemic, people have gotten used to…

Tagged with: Facebook, LinkedIn, Newsmax, San Diego Jewish World
Posted in Articles, Coronavirus, Global Economy, News, Social Mutual Responsibility

My Teacher and I

Posted on September 22, 2020

One cold, rainy evening in February 1979, as I was doing my usual delving into Kabbalah books with my friend Chaim Malka, I realized that it was hopeless. “Chaim,” I said, “we are going to find a teacher right now.”…

Tagged with: Facebook, LinkedIn
Posted in Articles, Integral Education, Jewish, News

The Lesson that Ignorance about the Holocaust Should Teach Us- Times of Israel

Posted on September 21, 2020

A survey that was recently quoted in USA Today found that almost “two-thirds of millennials, Gen Z, don’t know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.” Worse yet, the survey found that “in New York … nearly 20% of millennials…

Tagged with: Facebook, IsraelHayom, Jews Down Under, LinkedIn, The Times of Israel
Posted in antisemitism, Articles, Jewish, News

” Celebrating” the New Year in Closure

Posted on September 21, 2020

The new Hebrew year began with closure. But that was only the official declaration. In practice, every faction pulls its own way and tries to ease the restrictions on it and make them more convenient. In this tag of war,…

Tagged with: Facebook, LinkedIn
Posted in Articles, Coronavirus, Jewish, News