Jews always argue. In our history, these arguments have sometimes led to violence, and even flared such hatred that they inflicted ruin on our nation. Yet arguments, or as we prefer to call them, “debates,” have been a core value…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
How to Fight Right
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If We Do Not Recognize Jerusalem as Our Capital, Why Should Australia?
This week, Australia’s center-left government reversed a decision by the previous, conservative administration, to recognize West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Australia’s Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, said the city’s status should be decided through negotiations between Israel and the…
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Debunking the Myth of Jewish Wisdom
Jews have a reputation of being smart. Indeed, if you look at the list of Nobel Prize laureates, you will notice that Jewish sounding names are far more common than their share of the world’s population. There is also the…
When Power Is the Ideology
The protests in Iran have not abated for several weeks now, despite reports of hundreds of casualties. The determination of the Iranian people is admirable, as is their willingness to rise above fear. I have said several times that the…
Cajoling Jew-Haters Does Not Abate Antisemitism
Earlier this week, I wrote about the new report by the policy planning think tank The Jewish People Policy Institute – JPPI that revealed the depth of antisemitism on the Left and how dangerous it is. In that post, I intentionally left…
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Tomorrow’s World Relationships
A perfect match? A loving family? Happy children? The pressures of today’s world create a grim reality where successful and lasting relationships are something of a fantasy. We cannot rely on the experience of elders since they lived in a…
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Posted in Articles, Family, Interpersonal Relationships, News
The Facade of Internet Neutrality Exposed
After years of avoiding this sensitive issue, the US Supreme Court finally agreed this month “to decide whether social media platforms may be sued despite a law that shields the companies from legal responsibility for what users post on their…
A Hard Awakening – There Is Antisemitism on the Left
The 2022 report by the policy planning think tank Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), titled Annual Assessment: The Situation and Dynamics of the Jewish People, has revealed many things about the current state of world Jewry. Particularly, it has acknowledged…
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With a Grain of Salt
US President Joe Biden said Thursday that “the risk of nuclear ‘Armageddon’ is the highest it has been in 60 years after Russian President Vladimir Putin renewed his threats as his military retreats in Ukraine.” However, according to a story…
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A Spiritual Temporary Residence
Today is the eve of 𝑆𝑢𝑘𝑘𝑜𝑡 (Hebrew: Huts), a Jewish festival where the custom is to build huts and dwell in them for seven days. The traditional explanation to this custom is that it is to remind us that our…
The Legacy of a Giant
Today, October 7, sixty-eight years ago, Rav Yehuda Ashlag, the greatest kabbalist and thinker of our time, and one of the greatest of all time, passed away. He became known as Baal HaSulam (author of the Sulam [ladder]) after his…
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Nine UC Berkeley Law Students Sign Illegal Bylaw
Antisemitism is racism, which is illegal in the United States. Anti-Zionism, that is, “targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity,” according to the US government, is a manifestation of antisemitism, and therefore illegal. Yet, this did…
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