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...
A New Study of Eichmann and the Origins of Evil Shows Why Radicals Like...
Colaboration: Jaime Murrow
After 50 years of controversy, and many paperback editions, Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem has now been consigned to the dustbin of history. The final nail in the coffin of Arendt’s thesis is...
The profitable business of Israeli occupation
On Jan. 26, it was UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's turn to provide Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with justification for his weekly lecture that “the whole world is against us” and “the Arabs want...
Paul Rudd Challenges Stephen Hawking in Quantum Chess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi0BzqV_b44
The actor and former Bar-Mitzvah DJ challenges the famous quantum physicist for a dramatic game of quantum chess in this new Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter video, narrated by Keanu Reeves (another...
Bet You Didn’t Know About the Jews of Sefwi Wiawso, Ghana
The House of Israel has a one-room synagogue and a miniature Torah that sits in a special wooden box. All work stops on Shabbat, the boys are circumcised a week after birth, and the...
Serenading A Fetus In The Womb
In their attempts to gain greater and greater control over the way in which children grow and develop, people are developing strategies for influencing children at earlier and earlier ages. For quite some...
The Economist: ‘Israelis Seem Especially Susceptible to Hysteria’
A 2012 Economist article claimed that Israelis and their Prime Minister fear Iran because they suffer from "Auschwitz complex" - a “ghetto mentality” evidently based on obsessing over past suffering and reinforced by the Jewish festivals of Purim and...