Pini Dunner
ARTICLES BY: Pini Dunner
The Message of Sukkot: Spiritual Elevation Is a Process, Not a Switch
With each passing year, sukkah companies try and make it easier for you to build your sukkah. Today, you can buy a kit from a sukkah store, and...
Judaism’s Lesson: Everything Is Possible
Self-help guru and best-selling author Louise Hay recently died in her sleep, at the age of 90. Born into poverty in Los Angeles in 1926, as...
Giving to Others Is the True Path to Happiness
It has become an axiom of modern civilization that happiness is crucial. Thomas Jefferson began the Declaration of Independence by asserting that everyone has certain “unalienable...
God’s Ultimate Gift to the Jewish People
Over the years, I have studiously avoided engaging in theological disputations. Anyone deeply committed to their religious faith is unlikely to be convinced by clever...
The Choice to Make Choices
We have a number of weddings coming up in my congregation. Therefore, I thought it would be wise to address the glaring contradiction that exists between a widely-held...
Is Trump Right? Should Statues of General Lee Stay?
As a non-American living in the United States, I found this week’s political hurricane quite mystifying. Despite being familiar with the history the Civil War,...
Why the Talmud Is the Most Important Text in Judaism
It is always assumed that the most important text of Judaism is the Torah. But while it is true that the Torah is uniquely revered...
Why We Can Still Discover New Things About the Torah
One of the great puzzles of evolutionary theory concerns the existence of a human higher intelligence, and an innate desire for morality and ethics. Charles Darwin...
What Do Stories About Trump Say About the Media?
“The Inadvisable President." “5 Signs That Trump Knows He’s a Terrible President." “Donald Trump, Humiliator-in-Chief.” Headlines and articles communicating just how terrible the Trump presidency has...
Take Whatever Opportunity You Can to Study Torah
Following the loss of its American colonies in 1783, Great Britain was forced to find alternative locations for its various colonial enterprises -- one of which was the...
The State of Israel Is the First Stage of the Messianic Era
One of the great mysteries of modern Jewish faith is the instinctive antipathy that certain segments of the most religiously observant Jews feel toward the existence...
Why I Celebrate UNESCO’s Anti-Israel Votes
“It is shameful that the Jewish people still has to fight for the right to exist in the land that for 33 centuries it has...
Why Rationalists Can Believe in Miracles
As if we are not cynical and jaded enough, enter the latest trend in fake news: the "miracle survivor" story that turns out to be a lie. This...
The ‘Roswell Incident’ Could Be True — But It Isn’t
Next month will mark the 70th anniversary of a notorious episode known as the "Roswell incident." In July 1947 -- at a remote site northwest of Roswell, New Mexico -- a...
