Pini Dunner
ARTICLES BY: Pini Dunner
Do Wealthy People Believe in God?
The 19th-century business behemoth John D. Rockefeller is often touted as the “wealthiest American of all time.” But although he was a relentless capitalist, he was...
Esau, Jacob, and Poetic Justice
One of my favorite films as a teenager was the Robert Redford/Paul Newman classic -- "The Sting." It’s a complicated film, in which all the...
Great Rabbis Make the Torah Relevant Today
This week, I was privileged to participate in an international event that stretched across the globe, starting in New Zealand and Australia, and then finishing...
Lot’s Wife and Remembering the Righteous
You’ve probably never heard of the Sanctuary of Agios Lot, a Byzantine era monastery that is now a pilgrimage site, which consists of church ruins...
We Can Learn Most From Those Who Are Different From Us
Devaki Raj is the CEO and co-founder of CrowdAI, an artificial-intelligence startup that “enables anyone to create high quality solutions to analyze imagery and video.”...
If You Don’t Put Others First, You’ll Harm Yourself
A favorite assignment topic of history lecturers is to ask students to compare and contrast two great historical figures, to see where each of them...
Aleph and Beit
This week, an article in The Atlantic grabbed my eye. It described the enigmatic sacoglossa sea slugs that harvest energy from the sun’s rays, by photosynthesizing ingested algae cells....
Why We Need Sukkot
After watching the recent Afghanistan debacle unfold, I could not help but be reminded of the Suez Crisis of 1956 — with a sense of...
Why Do Jewish ‘Days’ Start at Night?
Every Yom Kippur, in synagogues across the world, there are people you never see the rest of the year. In my view, this is a...
The Greatest Act in the World Is to Do Someone a Favor
There is no question that the primary focus of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, as well as the intermediate days, is “teshuva.” Usually translated as...
Learning Never Ends
Over the past week, schools across the United States reopened for in-person learning, anticipating the first uninterrupted academic year since 2018-19. But while just a...
Why Judaism Requires Action on Climate Change
Although the issues of global warming and climate change are already familiar to us, it was not until this week that the indisputable facts of...
Jews Must Search for the Silver Lining
Over the past year-and-a-half, as the COVID-19 pandemic has relentlessly unfolded, we have all faced countless ups-and-downs -- hopeful glimpses of sunlight that are soon dashed...
As Jews, Our Fate Is in Our Hands
The noted American gossip columnist Earl Wilson (1907-1987) was the author of countless pithy one-liners — far too many to quote. But just to give...
