The more mass shootings shake society, the more different people propose different solutions in relation to different aspects that play a role in mass shootings: gun control – to counter gun availability, raising awareness about mental illness – to counter…
Yet again, two deadly mass shootings within hours in Texas and Ohio have shocked America. At least 31 people are dead and dozens wounded in both incidents, spreading fear, bewilderment and confusion throughout American society. The same scenario replays over and over,…
Today’s divisive social and political climate in the U.S., a melting pot within a boiling society that erupts in recurring mass shootings, resembles a modern-day version of ancient Babylon 4,000 years ago. A look at how the crisis was handled…
Global warming is a burning topic. Extreme heat waves, unparalleled in human history, have become a source of rising stress, a problem we no longer perceive from afar but on our own skin. Heat stress is estimated to cost the global economy $2.4 trillion…
You don’t have to be a climate scientist or understand that our deteriorating climate conditions will have disastrous ecological consequences. According to the World Economic Forum, ‘Russia’s melting permafrost could have a devastating global effect’. The danger is not only…
The deep divisions within Israel, America, and basically every society in the world are the subject of in-depth study in both academia and the media, but the most effective way to repair the breakage is itself also a source of intense dispute. This dispute…
After Theresa May resigned because she was unable to implement Brexit, Boris Johnson was elected British Prime Minister. In his victory speech a week ago, Johnson reiterated his motto: “Deliver Brexit, unite the country, and defeat [opposition Labour leader] Jeremy Corbyn”. If the EU had united Europe…
Answers to Questions on Quora Does the State of Israel have a right to exist? Why or why not? According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, there is a program that runs through nature’s and humanity’s development, which guides us all…
Campuses in the US and UK, once places for the enlightenment and ideological progress of society, have descended into epicenters of vicious anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli sentiment, two sides of the same coin. They have become hotbeds of fundamentalist political agendas…
American society is fragmented to pieces. The polarization of the political spectrum did not start with the recent controversy involving the current US administration and four Democratic congresswomen labeled as “anti-Israeli” and “anti-Semitic.” But the dispute certainly highlighted the abyss between the Right and…
I emigrated to Israel 45 years ago. When I was young and living in Leningrad (today St. Petersburg, Russia), walking down the city street one day, I witnessed a man suddenly violently attack a Jew and instinctively intervened to protect…
“With utter completeness will it be completed within the house of Israel, and from it, it will radiate to the earth and to the whole world, ‘for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nations.’” -Rav Abraham…