Dec 21, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
There has been a heated discussion on Facebook regarding Barry Shaw, Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at Israel Institute for Strategic Studies, making a shidach with Calev Myers and the Jerusalem Institute for Justice(JIJ) and it became nasty. I wrote that I...
Dec 4, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
And who by fire, who by water, Who in the sunshine, who in the night time, Who by high ordeal, who by common trial, Who in your merry merry month of may, Who by very slow decay, And who shall I say is calling? And God created a new worldview, a revolutionary...
Sep 25, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
We are a stiff-necked people. It is our greatest weakness, but it is also our greatest strength. Rabbi Yitzhak Nissenbaum, who lived and died in the Warsaw Ghetto, taught ,“Almighty God, looks upon this people with favor, because what is now their greatest vice will...
Apr 1, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
I recently met a young man who lives outside Toronto, Canada, whose family originally came from Pakistan. I was taken by a tattoo on his arm-from his shoulder to his wrist. I asked him about it and he told me that it depicts the story of his maternal...
Mar 9, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
I believe we are doing or students a great disservice by designating any club in Manichaean language. Gay-straight alliance indicates that sexuality is binary-you are either gay or straight. That is not true. Human beings live on a “sexual” continuum between absolute...
Mar 9, 2016 | Religion / Spirituality
When a child is buried, their dreams, hopes and aspirations are placed in the casket with them. But their souls, and the dreams, hopes and aspirations their parents had for them remain here, with the living. Those dreams, hopes and aspirations rest on the shoulders of...
