Posts Tagged: Pini Dunner
Pharaoh and His Picture of Dorian Gray
Earlier this month, a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s iconic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray opened at a theater in Chicago. The new production -- which sets the...
Seder Night — You Are What You Do
We live in an age where all of life’s challenges are handled by either psychology or psychiatry. Or, to put it another way, if therapy won’t help,...
Making a Mistake Isn’t the End of the World
The Chinese philosopher Confucius, is purported to have said: “If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.” I am...
Proximity to the Righteous Is Its Own Blessing
Next week, thousands of Jews from all over the world will travel to the sleepy town of Lezajsk, Poland. They will be pilgrim visitors to...
The True Purpose of Uniforms
Parents of children attending the prestigious Taimei Elementary School in Tokyo were recently shocked to discover that buying a new school uniform for their children...
Where Is the Ark of the Covenant?
Last month, if you were visiting Adis Ababa in Ethiopia, you would have witnessed an astonishing sight. Every January, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church celebrates a...
Humanism Is Proof of the Divine
Earlier this week, a story floating on the fringes of the news cycle caught my attention. A man from Pakistan who arrived in the UK in...
Message and Media in the Age of Trump
Earlier this week, I came across a remarkable article in The New York Times, written by its media correspondent, Michael Grynbaum. Using an interview with former White House...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
