How do we approach history? How well do we understand the causes of the events that define our time? Important...
In mid-October, an opportunity, quite spontaneously, arose to bring the young Israeli Omer and the Palestinian Faten, thirty years his...
The attempt to understand the US campaign and election for president has become a spectator sport with deep undertones and serious divisions. The process is fascinating, and offers a distinct view on the public atmosphere, individual psyches, and the power of media. In this election year, with clear political polarities...
Following the pager attacks and the death of Hassan Nassrallah, violence has escalated in the Middle East. Hezbollah is supporting...
Two daughters died in the Middle East conflict. Their fathers, Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan, show how one can find...
Kafka and the Anti-Semitism of 2024. On the 100th Anniversary of the Writer’s Death. I have no mandate and am not a moral authority. I am just a citizen who is amazed at how we have left Jews, our fellow human beings, alone since October 7, because that is how...
In recent months, student protests against the Israel-Palestine War have emerged on university campuses, first in the United States, then...
The coronavirus pandemic brought about an unusual and, for many, uncomfortable combination of two very different aspects of life: medicine...
Because of our consciousness, human beings are not a will-less “part” of nature, but its responsible, guiding partner. The future of Earth depends on us. How can we see this? Jan Diek van Mansvelt looks at cycles of dying and flourishing through corresponding developmental processes in human beings and plants,...
Young Hamlet cries, “The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it...
Helmy Abouleish, CEO of SEKEM in Egypt, was invited to speak at the recent Global Forum for Food and Agriculture....
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