Rome’s highest honor for its military leaders was the triumph . It was an extravagant and lavish affair in which the tri...

According to physicist Carlo Rovelli, the most radical discovery of quantum mechanics is this: Things don’t have concrete...

“Since the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem”, says the Talmud, “prophecy has been taken from prophets and given to f...

Recently,  the Washington Post reviewed  the charitable donations of the 50 wealthiest Americans during COVI...

The Talmud, the Jewish people’s greatest work of collective genius, is the direct consequence of the destruction of Jerusa...

There’s one critical question many are failing to ask as they scramble to rescue our institutions and shore them up financ...

Nietzsche is probably one of the most misunderstood and manipulated philosophers in history. The most pernicious manipulat...

Many things that worried us tremendously a few months ago seem to have lost their urgency in the age of COVID19. As Bari W...

Pantaphobia is a very rare medical condition in which the patient feels absolutely no fear. Thanks to a middle-aged Americ...

In the current crisis, we are hearing calls in the Jewish media and in leadership conversations to launch an “emergency ca...

JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny's presidential address at the JFN 2020 Virtual Convening, delivered on March 23, 202...

Time has a knack for irony. The last of Chronos’ practical jokes: making us celebrate a holiday in which we disguise ou...

Stav Harari and Dean Shoshani, both 25, had just started their lives together in a new apartment in the colorful Hatikvah...

American Jews are anxious. Antisemitism and Judeophobia, which didn’t used to be overriding concerns in the daily lives of...

22 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev found himself in a situation he never imagined he’d be in: broke. This was the man who...

The Forward , December 19, 2019 . Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Israel is locked in conflict over how to treat...

Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) , December 17, 2019. In a crisis, short-term efficiency can be a shoc...

Liberal democracy is in danger. From Hungary and Poland to Brazil and Venezuela, democracy is in retreat. Even in solid...

Until now, I’ve always felt at home in the world. I have lived in five different countries and visited close to a hundr...

Far from shore or any other vessel, the people on a small sailboat found themselves surrounded by sharks, just as somethin...

I’ve seen the creation of the world on live TV. No, I really have; and you probably have too, many times, without reali...

One feels as if there has been a conscious attempt to minimize the days of mourning and sadness in the calendar, packing a...

Cross-posted to eJewish Philanthropy. One of the things that make my job at JFN so rich and interesting is the debat...

Originally published in eJewish Philanthropy . In his article, “‘ The Establishment’ Has No Clothes: The New Jewis...

A lost tribe, a brand of beer, the history and future of Jewish resilience, and how Shavuot explains it all. Th...

The word utopia was first used by Sir Thomas More in 1516. He coined the term combining two Greek words: ou (not) and...

Published in  Sh'ma Now . Ask most people what motivates philanthropy and they’ll probably say, “generosity.”...

Do you think that leaders who are assertive, self-assured, speak clearly, and “call a spade a spade” are better leaders?...

In The Jewish Week . On April 16, Alain Soral, a well-known French anti-Semite, was sentenced to one year in pri...

A 19-year-old boy was arguably the most influential person in the 20 th century and, most probably, you’ve never heard of...

The word focus comes from the Latin for “fire”. The “focus” was the fireplace in a Roman home. 1 Fire draws our...

Antisemites think Jews cause everything bad. We’re to blame for capitalism and communism, ethnocentric nationalism and roo...

Question: What did the first three-headed clown juggling live baby goats say to the second three-headed clown juggling li...

All weekend as I watched the news, I wondered again what I’ve wondered before: why isn’t pain a zero sum game? Why can’t w...

Lately there seems to be a concerted attack on the idea of Tikkun Olam. Critics say Tikkun Olam is not a Jewish idea,...