Pini Dunner
ARTICLES BY: Pini Dunner
The Relationship With God Deep Beneath Us
If there is one president of the United States whose personality and character we are all intimately familiar with, it is undoubtedly the current incumbent. Between...
Why Do So Many Look Down on Hard Work and Refuse to Get Their Hands Dirty?
The late US Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., wrote that “there are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.” Brennan died a few years before...
What Makes a True Leader?
This week, auto-industry legend Lee Iacocca died at the age of 94. Iacocca’s father, an Italian immigrant restaurateur from Pennsylvania, once told his son that “when you...
The Immigration Crisis Should Not Be a Partisan Issue
Let me start out by declaring a personal interest in the subject of this article. I am an immigrant to the United States, as are...
The Real Problem Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Refusal to Apologize
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an antisemite? Does she care one iota about offending Jews? This week, the freshman Congresswoman from New York was once again under fire,...
We Must Push Back Hard Against All Who Hate Israel
This week, I was honored to receive an award from The Algemeiner at its inaugural West Coast Gala. Launched as a Yiddish language weekly, Der Algemeiner...
On Shavuot, We Are All Individuals — Not Numbers
Jack “Srulek” Feldman is a smiling, sprightly old man who lives in Rochester, New York, where -- until relatively recently -- he owned and ran...
Jerusalem Is the Beating Heart of Jewish History
If you do a Google search for any Jewish topic, you will almost certainly be directed to the site myjewishlearning.com. This website is one of the several...
The Torah Teaches Us to Ask for Help
You will no doubt have read or heard about the opioid epidemic currently raging across the United States. It is a crisis of unprecedented proportions. More...
After the Holocaust and in Times of Darkness, We Must Remain Faithful
A couple of days ago, my friend Yossi Fachler messaged me from Poland. He is currently there on a trip with yeshiva high school students...
True Friends Put Others First
We all need friends. We all have friends. And we all have something to say about friendship. And yet, defining friendship is far more elusive than...
Any Parent Who Refuses to Vaccinate Their Child Betrays God and Their Religion
In February 1998, a group of medical professionals and scientists, led by physician Andrew Wakefield, published a research paper in the highly respected British medical...
A Pesach Lesson From Entebbe
Last month, former airline pilot Michel Bacos died in France at the age of 94. Although Bacos had been retired for many years, his extraordinary...
The Talmud’s Take on Keeping Up With the Joneses
On November 10, 1987, artist Arthur R. Momand died in New York at the age of 100. Although a short obituary appeared in The New...
