Artículos

There few things more delightful that getting into an argument with your teenage child about the meaning of “freedom”. No, my dear son,...

Much of our communal energy over the last three decades has been aimed at creating platforms, leaving the content pretty much up for...

I follow Anshel Pfeffer’s column in Haaretz with assiduity. I usually find his mordant analyses profound and insightful. But I can’t help...

Our obligations extend to both past and future. Almost all modern societies are based on variations of a single concept: the “Social...

Persephone was a unique goddess in Greek mythology. She lived an idyllic and lonely life in communion with Nature, far from the other...

Intense, lifelong friendships that transcend social and cultural barriers are an Argentinian specialty, like tango, recurrent currency...

The choice of Kohelet for Sukkot is a curious one. Sukkot is supposed to be the most joyous festival in our calendar, and yet, on it we...

In order to succeed as philanthropists, we need to better understand and accept the views of those who are in positions of less relative...

Georg Friedrich Hegel was to modern thought what Plato was to Greek philosophy. Most of the ideological movements of the 19th and 20th...

Many people acquire power precisely by having a great capacity to be empathetic, or, at least, to be well-attuned to the emotional...

If the purpose of Tisha Be’Av is to warn us about the dangers of internecine hatred, it has failed miserably. The year 403 BCE was...

All that death and destruction could have been avoided with honest and timely feedback. One of the greatest famines of all time took pace...

Every time you scan your purchases at the grocery store self-checkout line, you’re learning Jewish mysticism. In 1948, the president of a...

At the recent Jewish Funders Network conference, I sat down with two living legends of philanthropy: Harold Grinspoon and Charles...

Friends, I generally use the Jewish holidays to share ideas and insights on Judaism and philanthropy. But this holiday of Yom Haatzmaut,...

Frederick Nietzsche believed that the Egyptians were blond. My apologies; I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start from the beginning:...

Andrés Spokoiny, President & CEO of Jewish Funders Network, addressed the 2017 JFN conference on March 20, 2017. When I was growing up,...

What if we are wrong about Purim? What if Purim is not the joyful holiday that we think it is, but a mordant exercise in self-criticism,...

Maybe what Haman wanted wasn’t so bad after all. He yearned for a homogeneous society, one in which people think the same thoughts, obey...

Lake Valencia in Venezuela was once a beautiful place. Nestled among mountains and sierras, and blessed by a humid and temperate climate,...

We live in an era that journalist Chris Hayes calls “The Twilight of the Elites.” As a culture we have discovered that our society – in...

We’re more affected by architecture than we might want to believe. The built environment conditions our thoughts and behaviors. Every...

In 2007, at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, scientists conducted a troubling experiment. They put people into...

Jewish Funders Network mourns the passing of Shimon Peres z”l, a true giant of the State of Israel, of the Jewish people, and of peace....