Pini Dunner
ARTICLES BY: Pini Dunner
What Separates Humans From Animals Is Our Connection to God
The headline was arresting enough to grab my attention: “Orangutans Exhibit Human-Like Speech for the First Time on Record.” Intrigued by the thought of talking...
How to Handle the Law in Extraordinary Times
The news this past week has been overwhelming, and we have been inundated with stories -- the dreadful murder of a priest in France by ISIS-inspired...
We Ignore Iran’s Words and Actions at Our Deathly Peril
This week marked the first anniversary of the Iran nuclear deal. Last year at around this time, many of us were engaged in the effort...
Is Israel’s Chief Rabbinate Following the Path of Korach?
Once again, Israel’s rabbinic court system is in the news -- and once again it is for taking a stance that seems unnecessarily harsh. An American woman who...
Jeremy Corbyn, Moses’ Spies and the Lust for Power
You are certainly familiar with the political crisis raging in Europe following the UK referendum result last week, which saw voters opt to sever the UK’s...
What the Torah Tells Us About the Media’s Role in Vetting Clinton and Trump
“Donald Trump’s free ride on your television screen is coming to an end,” began an article in the Los Angeles Times last week. The article reports...
Christian Zionists Are Among Our Best Supporters
Shortly after moving to the United States, I was introduced to Evangelical Christian supporters of Israel for the first time. I found them confounding and...
The Reason Why the Jews Accepted the Torah
One of my favorite Midrashim describes God’s attempt to find a nation willing to accept His Torah. The Midrash depicts the nascent Jewish nation’s willingness...
How Dangerous Times Can Help Us Lead Better Lives
On May 10, 1940, the Nazis invaded Holland. Just four days later, the Dutch army surrendered, and three days after that, the entire country was...
Workaholics and the Torah
Psychiatrists and psychologists have debated for decades whether or not "workaholism" is a mental illness -- or to put it more simply, whether being a workaholic...
Leaders Are Born, But They Also Need Help
Over the past couple of decades, leadership training has ballooned into a multi-billion dollar industry. A Google search for “leadership training courses” elicits 373 million...
Israel Is Powerful, But It Is Also Right
Until last week, I thought that I had heard just about everything bad anyone had to say about Israel -- that no anti-Israel statement would ever shock...
Interfaith Marriage and Jewish Customs: Doing Away With Something Inconvenient
Seymour Rosenbloom is a Conservative rabbi who gave 36 years of distinguished service to Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Jewish...
Passover, Judaism and Bernie Sanders
Abba Eban once said that “if Algeria introduced a UN resolution declaring the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by...
