Love the Stranger: How Canadian synagogues started sponsoring Syrian refugees
It was the photo that finally brought home the true horror of the Syrian refugee crisis: 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, lying face down on a Turkish beach, arms at his side, waves lapping around his...
Business Learning Experiences in the Age of Exploration
WHY LEARNING?
There is no doubt in my mind, that we have begun one of the most relevant transformations of humanity: the search for educational models that engage new generations and remain relevant for life...
The Tourist Who Is Missing The Bus
For many of us, travel represents not only an opportunity to have new experiences and new adventures, but also a time when we temporarily have to sacrifice comforts from home. The hotel room is...
Israel Is Beginning to Eat Its Own
After nearly five months of continuous violence, Israel finally seems to have lost its nerve.
Although Israelis have encountered far more serious periods of conflict with Palestinians in the past, the current era of stabbings...
The Key to Bernie Sanders’s Appeal Isn’t Socialism. It’s Yiddish
At a rally last October, Remaz Abdelgader — a hijab-wearing Muslim, a senior at George Mason University and the daughter of Sudanese immigrants — stood to ask Bernie Sanders a question.
She started by referring...
Pope Francis will migrate simbolically from Chiapas to Juarez
Pope Francis is expected to make immigration a major theme of his visit to Mexico. By traveling northward across Mexico, he intends to symbolically retrace the journey of Mexican and Central American migrants traveling...
Latin American Education Is Struggling, Israel May Have the Answer
Four lessons learned to improve education in Latin America
Many of us in Latin America have searched for solutions to the massive educational hurdles plaguing our region. I found some of the answers in the Holy...
Cats Live Spa Life
If you are an animal lover, you will be happy if you stay at Rancho La Puerta, a Jewish owned spa retreat in Tecate, Mexico. Known affectionately as “the ranch” Deborah Szekely and her...
Finding Heavenly Immortality In A Computer Screen
As modern technology has become an integral part of more and more activities in everyday human life, more and more people are no longer content with leaving a surrogate immortality when they die: a...
A New Raft of Ocean Heroes: Imperial Beah’s Major among 2016 Peter Benchley Ocean...
What does the president of a Pacific island Nation, a New York Times reporter, a French sailing expedition and the mayor of a small San Diego border town have in common? They are among...