Category: Science and Health

On November 6th, I embarked on a life-changing journey to Uganda with six other students from de Toledo High School. Our mission was to work alongside Semei Kakungulu High School students, sharing knowledge and learning together about spirulina. This remarkable superfood, packed with protein and nutrients, holds immense potential to combat hunger. Exploring spirulina’s potential […]

Eerie music plays as a fanged Dracula rises from his coffin. A clawed wolf man howls at a luminescent moon. Reptilian, scaled Godzilla demolishes New York City with a deafening roar. Monsters haunt our imaginations; they send chills down our spines that instill fear, dread, and hatred. With the release, and rapid popularity of the […]

In 1772, a short pamphlet, Zmir Aritzim V’charvot Tzurim was published near Brody, Ukraine. In it were a series of condemnations and edicts against the new Chasidic movement, including an excommunication signed by the Rabbis of Vilna, among them the famed Gaon, Rav Eliyahu. The letters from various communities depicted the Chasidim as people uninterested […]

“My name is Gal, and I am Jewish.” “Isn’t it crazy that just expressing such a simple fact about who I am feels like a controversial statement?” asked Gal Gadot, upon accepting the ADL’s International Leadership Award at the annual “Never Is Now” conference in New York City. “But sadly, this is where we’re at […]

There are Holocaust-deniers, who claim that accounts of the Nazi genocide are all a hoax. There are October 7 deniers, who say that Hamas did not commit any atrocities during its 2023 invasion. Now it seems that a new type of denier is emerging—the Bibas deniers. Killers and their cheerleaders hope to obscure their crimes […]

You know something is wrong with the messaging, if not soul, of the Democratic Party when lawmakers attending President Trump’s State of the Union used the occasion to display disinterest in ordinary Americans with compelling life stories. Why not stand and applaud a young boy who beat cancer and now has a Secret Service badge […]

As the historian Gil Troy has put it, everyone has their own personal “Herzl moment,” the incident, episode or insight during which they suddenly perceive how serious antisemitism is even in their immediate vicinity. My own came in 2015 when a Facebook post I’d written about Hamas during the earlier 2014 Hamas-Israel war—defending the Israeli […]

The Transformation of the Nature of Power In modern Iranian history—and perhaps even globally—few movements rival the scale and dedication of Iranian women’s struggle for freedom and gender equality. A century ago, women fought for the right to vote; today, they are rising to fundamentally reshape the world. Gender Equality: A Defining Challenge of Our […]

One of the side effects of spending a few decades in the advertising business, as I did, is that thoughts percolate in your mind whether you like it or not. For several years now, one pesky thought has been bothering me: Why is it that the more money and resources we put in our fight […]