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Of Oysters and Israel (Yom Ha'atzma'ut 5781)
One article changed my whole view of Zionism. Since I’d grown up in a strongly Zionist environment, from my home to my day school to my...
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As We Leave Egypt and Covid, We Cannot Simply ‘Go Back’ To the Past (Passover 5781)
If you have a European or Middle Eastern heritage and you grow up in the Southern Hemisphere, you suffer from permanent cognitive...
Resilience Isn’t Enough. We Need 'Renaissilience'
JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny's presidential address at the JFN 2021 International Conference, delivered online on Wednesday,...
Overcoming the Revival of 'Hamanism' (Purim 5781)
Ridiculousness is one of the central characteristics of Purim. On this holiday, we are not afraid to be silly and absurd. We don funny...
Defying Entropy (Tu Bishvat 5781)
It takes just 13 seconds to chop down a tree with an ax. If you must know, New Zealander David Bolstad holds the world record of...
Lighting a Path into the Future (Hanukkah 5781)
Sorry to break it to you, but Hanukkah is not that unique. Almost every culture has a midwinter holiday in which light is the main...
The Covid Content Revolution
When my son, a high school senior, decided to take a science course that would look good on his college applications, he initially...
Covid Was Not a Crash Diet: What Funders Need to Do in the Next Phase
(A Message for the National Day of Philanthropy) Anybody who, like me, has ever tried to lose weight – and failed – has experienced some...
'Memento Mori': The Unpleasant Reminder That Makes Us Better People (Yom Kippur 5781)
Rome’s highest honor for its military leaders was the triumph. It was an extravagant and lavish affair in which the triumphator, wearing...
The Rosh Hashanah-Quantum Connection (Rosh Hashanah 5781)
According to physicist Carlo Rovelli, the most radical discovery of quantum mechanics is this: Things don’t have concrete existence, but...
Seven Questions We Need to Ask in 5781
“Since the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem”, says the Talmud, “prophecy has been taken from prophets and given to fools and...
Billionaires: It's Time to Give Until It Hurts
Recently, the Washington Post reviewed the charitable donations of the 50 wealthiest Americans during COVID. What they found was...
To Confront Cancel Culture on Left and Right, Take a Page from the Talmud (Tisha Be'av 5780)
The Talmud, the Jewish people’s greatest work of collective genius, is the direct consequence of the destruction of Jerusalem and its...
Are We Ready for the Spiritual Transformation this Plague Will Unleash?
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed our Jewish communal infrastructure in grave danger, as Armin Rosen documented here earlier this week. At...
What Would Moses Say? Of Nietzsche, Hitler and the Freedom to Hurt Others (Shavuot 5780)
Nietzsche is probably one of the most misunderstood and manipulated philosophers in history. The most pernicious manipulation of him was...
On This Covid Yom Ha’atzmaut, Let’s Hit the Reset Button
Many things that worried us tremendously a few months ago seem to have lost their urgency in the age of COVID19. As Bari Weiss noted in a...
What We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself (Passover 5780)
Pantaphobia is a very rare medical condition in which the patient feels absolutely no fear. Thanks to a middle-aged American woman known...
Does the Jewish Community Need a Central COVID Fund?
Here's A Better Strategy for Addressing the Crisis In the current crisis, we are hearing calls in the Jewish media and in leadership...
Coronavirus Is a Test for Funders, and Failing Isn't an Option
Scroll down or click here to watch this speech. “These are the times that try men’s souls,” said Thomas Paine. And these times are trying...
Of Masks and Plagues (Purim 5780)
Time has a knack for irony. The last of Chronos’ practical jokes: making us celebrate a holiday in which we disguise ourselves, in the...
Drowning in a Flood of Instant Gratification (Tu Bishvat 5780)
Stav Harari and Dean Shoshani, both 25, had just started their lives together in a new apartment in the colorful Hatikvah Quarter in...
Fighting Antisemitism Is More Complicated Than You Think
American Jews are anxious. Antisemitism and Judeophobia, which didn’t used to be overriding concerns in the daily lives of Jewish...
The Decline and Fall of Every Revolution (Hanukkah 5780)
22 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev found himself in a situation he never imagined he’d be in: broke. This was the man who had led a world...
What Israel Can Learn from the Hasmoneans
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Israel is locked in conflict over how to treat non-Jewish people living in the land. Stark divisions...
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