Nuclear War Avoidance: A Fourth Pillar Of Future Human Well-Being
“In the end, we must depend upon creatures of our own making.”
Goethe, Faust
On July 12, 2021, Horasis Chairman Frank Jurgen-Richter posted an important new essay titled “The Three Necessary Pillars of Future Human Well-Being.”...
Time in Israel’s National Security
Despite Israel’s conspicuous successes on the technological side of national security, there is little evidence of any meaningful philosophical underpinnings. For the most part, the small country’s defense policies and infrastructures, though impressively complex,...
The Effects Of Natural Catastrophes On People In Modern Technological Society
The news has been filled with stories about the horrific series of tornados that ravaged the central part of the United States on December 10 and 11. It has filled the conversations of many...
Israel and American Jewry: A call for unity and dialogue
Charles Dickens had it right. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Seventy-one years following its independence, the Jewish state continues to astound with both a lengthy list of accomplishments...
Can we keep the focus on George Floyd’s killer?
The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, who dug his knee into Floyd’s neck, feels all too familiar. Like Eric Garner in New York, Floyd cried out, “I...
Anti-Semitism is the ultimate marker of cultural derangement
The attacks against Jews in New York and London during the past week have left people deeply shocked.
The stabbing rampage against Hanukkah celebrants in Monsey, N.Y., following a deadly attack on a kosher supermarket...
Antisemitism as advocacy
The Biden administration deserves credit for elevating the issue of antisemitism in American public discourse. For example, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff has made it a key focus area, representing the United States at Auschwitz on this...
Synergistic perils for Israel, 2019
Our eighth grade geometry teachers were not always correct. One very conspicuous “axiomatic” error was contained in stipulating postulates that ignored “synergy,” because the expected “whole” of certain global intersections could sometimes prove substantially...
What Syria doesn’t teach us about Iran
The explanation many pundits are offering for the Israeli government’s belated admission that it was responsible for the 2007 bombing of a Syrian nuclear reactor is to send a message to Iran.
Other more mundane...
The political fallout to the Netanyahu indictment highlights entrenched partisan divide
The attorney general’s announcement on Thursday night, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being indicted for bribery and breach of trust led to strong reactions from all sides of the political spectrum.
Netanyahu called...