Pini Dunner
ARTICLES BY: Pini Dunner
Our Loving Relationship With God
This Shabbat is ‘Tu Be’Av’ — the 15th day of the Jewish month of Av — an obscure Jewish festival day when we highlight the...
Are Haredi Hard-Line Policies Undermining the State of Israel?
One of the most startling narratives of the Talmud concerns Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, the rabbinic leader of Jerusalem’s Jews during the devastating Roman siege...
Defending Israel With Our Lives
This past week, I visited Israel together with my wife Sabine — and it was a truly exhilarating experience. Although this was hardly our first visit...
Remembering My Father, and the Promise of One Jewish Life
This week marks 10 years since the passing of my dear father, Avraham Moshe ben Yosef Tzvi HaLevi z”l, at the age of 73. Known universally...
What Judaism Tells Us About Wisdom and Learning
Jason Tan is a professor of Policy, Curriculum and Leadership at The National Institute of Education in Singapore. He is also an acknowledged expert on...
Korach and the Arguments of Destruction
If you’re British and of a certain age, you are probably a fan of the irreverent 1970’s comedy sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus. I...
Celebrating Israel’s New President, Isaac Herzog
In a world full of conflict and discord, in which the very idea of representative democracy is struggling to survive an overwhelming onslaught of hostility...
A Torah Quirk, and a Tale of Jewish Sustenance
A couple of weeks ago, during our Torah reading on Shabbat, the Torah reader suddenly stopped in his tracks and bent down towards the parchment...
Searching for Peace in the Middle East
By the time you read this, there will probably be a ceasefire arrangement in place between Israel and the Hamas regime in Gaza, although the...
In the Wake of More Violence, Jews Must Pull Together
Once again, we are faced with the ugly spectacle of a terrorist-generated war in the Middle East. Disturbances on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem that...
Learning the Right Lessons From Meron — and Punishing Those Responsible
Adeeb Joudeh Al Husseini is a Muslim Arab living in the Old City of Jerusalem. Descended from one of Jerusalem’s oldest Arab clans, Adeeb has...
Parshat Emor: Is the Greatest Danger Close to Home?
If you were on the lookout for a bizarre news headline this week, I don’t think you could have beaten this one: “Shock After Christian...
Why Fake News Is an Affront to God
Have you ever heard of Veles (pronounced “veh-less”)? I don’t expect you have. It’s a small town in a European country called North Macedonia —...
Getting to Know the Land and Animals of Israel
Last July, after dropping off my son Meir at the IDF draft office in Tiberias, and before I went to Ben Gurion Airport to catch...
