A common form of bullying among children in Israel is exclusion. A few days ago, yet another sad story surfaced on Israeli media, describing the social exclusion of children who are going through the summer vacation without any friends because…
Dr. Michael Laitman
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What a Summer of Exclusion Feels Like
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How can we overcome fear and anxiety?
We can overcome fear and anxiety by entering into an environment of people who aim at achieving positive connection, together learning and implementing a method of connection that attracts nature’s positive force into such a connection. We should also understand…
What’s Left After We’re Gone
A few days ago, some friends were having a house party when a sinkhole suddenly opened under the swimming pool while some of the participants were in the water. Two men got sucked into the hole. One of them got…
Facing a Collective Suicide
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said last week that humanity is facing a collective suicide. As The Guardian reported, “Guterres told ministers from 40 countries meeting to discuss the climate crisis on Monday: ‘Half of humanity is in the danger zone, from…
What do you think about the UN Sustainable Development Goals?
I think that it is a childish initiative, but let them try. It is childish because it fails to account for the root cause of everything that makes life on this planet unsustainable, and how to correct the problems and…
Why do so many people identify with the loneliest whale?
The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 is a documentary that, over thirty years, tracks a whale that produces high-pitched sounds on a frequency unique solely to that whale, to which no other whales respond. They thus call this whale “the…
Is the World Getting Worse or Is It Only Our Perception?
If we follow the news today, we see a world about to collapse, as if we were experiencing the worst time ever. Therefore, we are able to believe that our grandparents were right, longing for “the good old days.” Grim…
How might being kind and showing you care about someone, including a stranger, make a big difference in the person’s life?
One of my students told me a story about a young man who was hospitalized on the verge of death. He wrote a “Farewell to the World” post on Facebook, which was met with hundreds of warm and caring comments…
If There Is No Heart, There Is No Food
A few days ago, a heart wrenching story surfaced on Israeli media about a security guard at a supermarket who spotted a woman stealing from the shelves. He approached her and demanded that she open her handbag. When she did,…
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What do you think of U.S. officials who said Monday the bullet that killed veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was likely fired from an Israeli position?
I heard about CNN reporting that IDF soldiers shot the Al Jazeera reporter, Shireen Abu Akleh, as a targeted attack, which is uncanny because firing at civilians is the opposite of what the IDF teaches their soldiers from their very first training…
Not Gonna Lie
NGL is a new and quite popular mobile app. Its letters are an acronym for “Not Gonna Lie,” and the app presumes to offer “a fresh take on anonymity.” According to the creators of the app, “anonymity should be a…
What is your take on gender equality?
Nature made a specific distinction between genders, placing us into an unequal state. Male and female parts in nature are necessary for birth and procreation. If we try to impose an artificial removal of the difference between genders, destroying their…