Posts Tagged: Pini Dunner
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...
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...
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...
The Torah Teaches That Feeling No Pain Is a Weakness
You will be excused for not having heard of the latest Bollywood movie sensation, a film called Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, which translates as...
The Yabloner Rebbe
Usually I generate my own material. This time, I am taking it from Pini Dunner, another British rabbi now living in the US. His hobby...
The Torah Requires Holding Leaders Accountable
In a Washington Post interview this past Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed unequivocally that she is “not for impeachment” of President Donald Trump. Despite a...
Why Human Beings Are Always a Work in Progress
On April 12, 1945, the Russian-born American artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff began work on a portrait at a sleepy private vacation retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia, known...
How We Can Truly Hear God’s Words
In October 2010, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published a fascinating article about the remarkable linguistic synergy that exists between couples who are...
The Beauty of Tefillin
A few weeks ago, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, our youngest son Uri put his tefillin on for the first time. In May, he will...
Once a High Priest or President, Always a High Priest or President
On December 5, 2018, four former US presidents and their wives attended the funeral of George H.W. Bush in Washington DC -- Jimmy and Rosalynn...
Charity Is in Your Heart, Not Your Wallet
Some years ago, I came across an article that began with this rather startling statement: “If you raise money for charity, you're probably oppressing someone.” The...
Sight and the Beauty of Torah
I have just returned from Israel, where I spent an exhilarating week with my family. During our short visit, we visited many places and met a...
Why Israel Is Not Enough: Jews Must Now Seek Spiritual Redemption
Earlier this week, in the final lecture of this season’s Jewish History series at my synagogue in Beverly Hills, I recalled the life of Rabbi...
