Pini Dunner
ARTICLES BY: Pini Dunner
Family and Community: The Secrets of Jewish Endurance
The arrest of David and Louise Turpin in Perris, California, earlier this week was immediately followed by details of one of the most disturbing news stories...
When Is a Secret Not a Secret?
The infamous bon-vivant, Anthony Haden-Guest, is purported to have once told a friend: “Of course I can keep secrets; it’s the people I tell them...
Human Wisdom vs. Divine Wisdom
This coming Monday, I will be delivering a lecture on Moses Maimonides -- surely one of the most fascinating Jewish personalities of the past 1,000 years. The...
The Power of an Oath
Over the past few decades, a new area of psychological research has emerged that has changed the way that psychologists understand a very familiar aspect of human...
What Really Separates Humans From Animals
Animals communicating with each other -- and with humans -- have always been a feature of literary fiction. Over the last century, this has spilled...
The Story of Joseph, Hanukkah — and Finding the Light
Although ancient Egypt and ancient Greece coexisted for well over a millennium, they were different in almost every respect. Egyptian civilization emerged at the dawn...
Finding God in the Darkest Times
My late grandfather, Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dunner (1913-2007), was a remarkable man. Born in Cologne, Germany, his family was devoutly orthodox in an era when...
Don’t Idly Dismiss Danger
In his memoirs, the controversial Danish politician Karl Kristian Steincke presented a collection of particularly ridiculous parliamentary gaffes that he had noted over the years....
Every Human Being Makes an Impact
This past Sunday evening, I received a phone call from a friend to ask whether I could conduct the funeral of a distant relative the following day....
The Weakness of Atheism
Atheism has featured prominently in the news over the past week -- and for all the wrong reasons. It turns out that Devin Patrick Kelley, the deranged...
All You Need for Success Is Prayer
One of the riskiest endeavors in the business world is the area known as “mergers and acquisitions." A merger joins two separate entities into one...
It Can Take Interesting Characters to Carry Out God’s Will
A century ago this week, Lord Arthur Balfour, the British foreign secretary and former prime minister, dispatched his now famous 67-word letter to Lord Walter...
Why Divergent Thinking Is Critical to Judaism
All of us have been shocked by the images of yeshivah boys and their rabbinic mentors disrupting traffic and causing mayhem in Israel. They were...
It’s Time to Leave Your Comfort Zone
Earlier this week, I visited Buffalo, New York, where I was the keynote speaker at “Buffalo Celebrates Israel” -- a joint event organized by 22 evangelical churches...
