By Yaakov Mascetti*
As the father of two adolescents, I find myself thinking a lot about the education, influence, freedom of and control over another human being who is not me. Parenting is inherently complex, to say the least, because …
By Daniela Fubini*
The night they took down Dizengoff Square, I was there. Or at least I tried to be there. Turns out, it will take over a week, they did not make a nice, bold, resonating “boom”, and on …
By David Bidussa*
Torture has gone again unpunished, if not in law, at least in fact. We can start with Aleppo. Although it was already clear with Srebrenica in 1995: our time is the time of perpetrators. The “never again”, …
By Susanna Calimani*
The streets in Venice are paved with big rectangular stones, they are placed one next to the other, and they create a sort of irregular chessboard. It goes without saying that Venetian kids are divided into two …
By Yaakov Mascetti*
The story of Jacob’s only daughter, Dinah, is one of silence, violence, rape, forced love, abduction and mass murder, lies and truth, words and things. Dinah is, says Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch, a young, curious woman, who …
By David Harris*
I am a forgotten Jew.
My roots are nearly 2,600 years old, my ancestors made landmark contributions to world civilization, and my presence was felt from North Africa to the Fertile Crescent — but I barely exist …
By Susanna Calimani*
Yesterday I went to the osteopath for the first time. I am often in pain with my cervical nerves and the doctor told me that physiotherapy was not enough. Out of all the osteopaths in Frankfurt, I …
By Yaakov Mascetti*
There is a profound difference between passively accepting Divine presence and Divine commandments, and the ability to actively argue with G-d, point by point, wrestling with Him upon every single thing he imparts. But there is also …
By Daniela Fubini*
Reality check: we are a Middle-Eastern country slightly bigger than New Jersey which happens to be one of the smallest states in the USA. And we are not, last time anyone counted, the 51st State.
Nevertheless, we …
By Benedetto Carucci Viterbi*
The Tower of Babel is the universal watch-tower over one-way homogenized thought. It could not but end up with the shattering of this insane idea.
*Benedetto Carucci Viterbi is a rabbi.…