Artículos

The aspen tree, from which that beautiful Colorado town takes its name, is a remarkable plant. An aspen forest is, in fact, one single...

The first books by Elie Wiesel that I read were not about the Holocaust; they were Spanish translations of his works about the Hasidic...

In “Me and Bobby McGee,” the famous blues/rock song popularized by Janis Joplin, the narrator expresses a romantic view of freedom that...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s collapse, an event that opened a new chapter in world history and in Jewish...

According to cognitive scientist Lera Boroditzky, you and I don’t see the color “baby blue” in the same way. That’s not because we have...

Dear friends, I was working on a message that would express my feelings in relation to Yom Haatzmaut, Israel Independence Day. Something...

When medical students in the Middle Ages opened a body and pointed out discrepancies between what they saw in front of them and the...

This article was published in Haaretz, Apr 20, 2016. Zionism is one of the most inspiring and justice-oriented movements in human...

Every culture has etiological myths, foundational stories that relate the origins of the people in question. Those stories — which...

Purim is a holiday in which we are not afraid to be ridiculous. We don funny costumes; we drink ourselves into oblivion; we are...

JFN President & CEO Andrés Spokoiny's annual address to the 2016 JFN International Conference was entitled Empowered Humility: Leveraging...

Let’s declare a moratorium on new Big Ideas and look at the possible Near Ideas that abound in our community. If I had a penny for every...

A community that believes in owning rather than sharing cannot seduce those who grew up in an Open Source world. Sometime in the...

William O. Douglas, the longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice, said that “sunlight is the best disinfectant.” But as a proverbial...

I made a bet with myself that I could resist using the Star Wars craze as an analogy to write something about the state of the Jewish...

In 1972, during Richard Nixon’s visit to China, Premier Zhou Enlai was asked what he thought about the French Revolution. He responded,...

This article was published in eJewish Philanthropy. One of the most popular recurrent dreams comes in different variations, but the core...

We don’t like to talk about it much, but one of the main themes of the High Holidays is death. Why do we traditionally dress in white?...

As funders, we need to stop watching [the] deterioration of civility from the sidelines. We certainly are part of the problem, but we are...

Most of the folks fighting BDS have the best intentions at heart, and many are doing great work, but collectively, our impact is limited...

John F. Kennedy once said that “leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” JFK probably didn’t know, but his statement was...

Well above the Arctic Circle lies Tromso, the northernmost city in Norway. During the summer, the sun never sets and in winter it never...

Every time I go back to Argentina my mother makes me feel like a child. She reminds me to button up my coat, impervious to the fact that...

As somebody who grew up in the Southern Hemisphere, the wintery nature of Chanukah used to elude me. During my childhood, Christmas fell...