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Aug 24, 2022, 5:14 PM

Fleeing Despair, Ukrainian Orphans in Israel Find Peace Through Mountain Biking

Geerz participants in the Nes Harim KKL Forest (All Photos Courtesy of Geerz)

It is a long way from a small town 120km outside of Kyiv called Zhytomyr to the Nes Harim KKL nature preserve and youth village outside of Beit Shemesh. Yet, on a recent afternoon, dozens of Ukrainian orphans -...

Mar 31, 2022, 10:05 PM

BDE Richard Moore from Israel the Cycling Nation

Israel is now a cycling country. Thanks to Sylvan Adams, we now can claim a cycling team competing at the highest level of global competition and a world-class velodrome in Tel Aviv. We hosted the opening of the 2018 Giro...

Nov 17, 2021, 8:55 PM

Sounds That Bite

By Whoisjohngalt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112377475

What's left when you go beyond the soundbite? As a media studies student in the 1980s, our professors lamented that quotes from interviewees on the news were getting shorter and shorter resulting in what they called “sound bites.” By the year 2000,...

Jul 27, 2021, 10:15 AM

Shema and Godfather of Soul

Koren's Ani Tefila Siddur

Six decades ago, James Brown set foot on the stage at the Apollo theater in New York City for a performance that was to be recorded and later stayed the #1 album for over a year. Through his energetic...

Apr 20, 2021, 7:50 PM

Making Aliyah with your teen

Your choice to move your teen to Israel can have two options. Success...or fabulous success. Bringing your teen to Israel as an Oleh/Olah is doable, possible, and amazing. I’m sure you are waiting for the “But” so here it...

Feb 2, 2021, 7:56 PM

Leaving the spaceship

For 11 months, I’ve been traveling in a spaceship. COVID-19 has kept me and almost every other non-essential worker in our homes. It limited our movements, cut us off from so many, all the while feeling that catastrophe lingered...

Jun 26, 2020, 1:54 PM

Our 5 Crises, Mindfulness, and Rebbe’s Yahrzeit

David Brooks announced today in his column that there are five concurrent crises hitting us right now. I appreciated his naming what I’ve been feeling and it drove me to think of the one thing I can do this...

May 28, 2020, 1:57 PM

It’s not over until COVID says it’s over

The band of misfits in the fraternity house is sprawled dejectedly across the living room. The “Animal House” fraternity has been kicked out of school and off-campus. The hero has failed to the girl. The freshman has lost his...

May 19, 2020, 3:59 PM

No Hugging, No Learning

Larry David once famously said about the essence of Seinfeld, “No Hugging, No Learning.” This mantra was a way to frame the harsh and humorous spotlight he put on human nature with the show. Diving into the minutiae of...

May 4, 2020, 1:22 PM

Is it okay to still be scared?

Has the storm really passed? (Courtesy)

Are we safe, or are we suffering from a moment of hubris that heralds much worse on the horizon?

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Dan is a veteran public relations, political communications and media strategist. He founded Full Court Press Communications 20 years ago. He is also the host of Mindful Work www.MindfulWork.show - a podcast at the intersection of Mindfulness, Jewish Thought, and Business. He resides in Israel.

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