Simon Jacobson
ARTICLES BY: Simon Jacobson
A Bold New Peace Initiative
From the latest tremors rippling through the Middle East you get the sense that we are living in historical times, and we are in the...
The Difficult History of Religion and Freedom
Fears are mounting over the growing crisis in the Middle East. Even as the current pharaoh of Mitzrayim (the Biblical name for Egypt) has now bowed...
Middle East in Turmoil; The World Is Not Flat
Few articles about the uprising in Egypt were more infuriating than Thomas Friedman's column in this week's New York Times. Titled B.E., Before Egypt. A.E.,...
Mishpatim: Shoveling the Snow
Who's Digging Out of What? A Snow Shoveling Meditation As I was digging out of the snow this sparkling New York ...
Bo: The New Moon
This new moon (Ha'chodesh Hazeh) ...
Nine Days Minus One
A few days ago I bumped into an old friend whom I have not seen for 34 years. He was my high school classmate,...
Zealots, Radicals and Peace
In an unprecedented act of sanctioned zealotry, we read in this week's Torah portion about Pinchas being commended for taking a stand against a...
Pinchas: Peace and Zealotry
In an unprecedented act of sanctioned zealotry, we read in this week's Torah portion about Pinchas being commended for taking a stand against...
$600,000,000,000 A New Economic Paradigm
I knew that title would get your attention. With all the news consuming the headlines, some more important than others - oil spills, flotillas, Helen...
A Lesson from a Turkish Bath
The power of gentlenes s in influencing others is captured in a beautiful story with the Frierdiker Lubavitcher Rebbe, whose liberation ...
Chukas: On the Essence of Leadership
Moses is Israel and Israel is Moses.... For the leader ...
King of Spain Mystified by a Shofar: “Do Jews Also Have Toreros?” – Impressions from European Jewish Retreat
Marbella, Spain Standing on the edge of the Mediterranean, at the southern tip of Spain, I look out to sea. A flotilla is beginning to...
Shelach: Insects and Giants
We were in our own eyes like tiny grasshoppers, and so were we in their eyes - Numbers, Shelach 13:33 If the scouts objectively were like...
Bizarre Revelations
Want to hear a good detective story? Listen to this. Several years ago we consulted an intellectual property attorney about a certain issue. She asked...
