Articles on Current Events

FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE

Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.

Seeking Rav Kook's Glasses, to See and Welcome Redemptive Times

Selective Enforcement in Jewish Law

Russia - Ukraine. Gog and Magog?

Are the winds of war blowing between Russia and Ukraine the beginning of the Gog and Magog war?

Diamonds Are Forever

Choices

As often happens when I sit down to my computer to write this weekly opinion article, I am faced with several choices as to the subject that the article should be.

Richard Branson and The Ultimate Joy Ride

It's easy to think of life as a trip through a treasure-house of experiences. Climbing Everest. Flying around the world in eighty days, or to the edge of space. The truth is that all the pleasures, all the experiences of this world, are given to us for one reason only: that we might sense to the smallest degree, the taste of life itself. But what is life itself if not our experiences in it?

Tragedy in Miami

When tragedy strikes, each one of us must make an accounting.