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May 27, 2022, 12:54 AM

The Kotel on Yom Yerushalayim (World Mizrachi/David Stein)

A few months ago, World Mizrachi was set to celebrate a historic milestone event in the Knesset, an event that should have been a great personal and organizational highlight. Ten days before the event was scheduled to take place,...

Apr 27, 2022, 11:52 PM

I owe my life to the Zionist movement

German Youth Sport and a Mother’s Cunning and Courage How many grandparents leave all their children and grandchildren behind to make aliyah? I will never forget the time when, as an 8-year-old boy in Johannesburg, my maternal grandfather gathered our family...

Oct 25, 2021, 6:15 PM

The Sacred and the Secular: Four Role Models of Integration

Rabbi Sacks and Rabbi Perez at World Mizrachi's Yom Yerushalayim Mega Mission in 2017 (Photo: World Mizrachi)

The four rabbinic leaders who have greatly shaped my perspective on life are Rabbis Shimshon Raphael Hirsch, Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Jonathan Sacks. All were role models in the quest to integrate ancient and eternal Torah...

Sep 19, 2021, 10:32 PM

The Antisemitic Virus – Master of Deception

A virus is a master of deception. Its aim is to reproduce and multiply, but as it is only a simple microscopic clod of organic matter, it cannot do so on its own. The only way it can reproduce is...

Sep 12, 2021, 1:44 PM

Delta variant, Durban and demonizing Israel

Parallel to the different variants of the coronavirus that have spread havoc, illness and death all over the world, we have also witnessed the mutation and dissemination of another destructive global virus, spreading hatred and demonization in new and...

Mar 22, 2021, 2:14 PM

No Place Like Home – Pesach, Parenting and the Plague

For over a year, the world has been forced to stay home. People have probably spent more time at home than at any other time in their working lives. The most prestigious universities in the world have been devoid of...

Jan 27, 2021, 4:49 PM

The Tu BiShvat Covenant – An Extraordinary Tale between a People and a Land

Is there another people on earth who has a deeper relationship with and stronger claim to a tract of land, than the Jewish people's claim to the Land of Israel? This relationship is a deeply spiritual one and expresses...

Dec 24, 2020, 11:17 PM

Mutual Responsibility – The Seal of Leadership

We encounter, in this week’s Parasha, one of the remarkable acts of self-sacrifice and in the process the formation of a great leadership quality - the seal of the House of Judah. The tribe of Judah, as a result, would...

Dec 9, 2020, 12:51 AM

The Hasmoneans and the Legacy of Rabbi Sacks

Religion, Nationhood and Universalism What did Avraham Avinu stand for? What were the core principles he instituted that formed the authentic blueprint for Judaism and the Jewish people? Let us examine this question from three different vantage points: Spiritual. Avraham was the...

Oct 2, 2020, 11:11 AM

Celebrating Vulnerability

There is no more intense feeling of vulnerability than over the Yamim Noraim – The Days of Awe. The very name conjures up trepidation for the Great Days of Judgement, when the world in general, and our lives in...

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Rabbi Doron Perez is the Executive Chairman of the Mizrachi World Movement, a global Religious Zionist movement based in Jerusalem with many active branches around the world. He is an organizational leader, sought after international speaker and author.

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