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Jun 10, 2026, 4:09 AM

Inches to Metric: Creating Mercaz Lavi – PTSD Center

Our team. Photo Beth Kopin

Our buddy Elie Spivack (co- founder of Mercaz Lavi) came to us four years ago. He was a distinguished combat engineer suffering from PTSD, (post traumatic stress disorder). We did not know it at the time. All we knew...

May 30, 2026, 5:15 PM

From Jerusalem via the Judean Desert to the Dead Sea: Turning Sewage into Energy

From Sewage to Energy: The Restoration of the Kidron Valley Brings Life Back to the Desert. About eight years ago, a capstone project I supervised at the Faculty of Management at Ben-Gurion University won first prize in the university’s “Green...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 27, 2026, 11:18 AM

Europe Needs Israel to Join the European Union

Europe is careening toward strategic irrelevance as Iranian proxies tighten their noose around its southern flank and radical Islam spreads through its streets and no-go zones. Israel is the hard-power partner the European Union can no longer afford to...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

May 21, 2026, 10:37 AM

Should We Change the Torah Reading Cycle (Again)?

What does the holiday of Shavuot (Pentecost) symbolize? There’s no clear answer because its “meaning” has undergone change over time. The Israelites received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, and we commemorate this on Shavuot based on counting the...

May 17, 2026, 5:18 PM

No cheesecake without sustainability

Understandably, Israel has let key issues, including the climate crisis, renewable energy, cleantech, and more, drop off the public radar. But there's no easy fix

May 17, 2026, 4:36 PM

The Honeymoon Is Over

Conceptual illustration: A woman stands inside her kitchen overlooking a tense maritime horizon, symbolizing how distant geopolitical conflicts and energy disruptions increasingly shape the intimate realities of everyday Indian life. Image: AI-generated using OpenAI tools (Free for commercial use).

Every honeymoon inevitably ends the exact same way. You walk into your own kitchen a few days after the trip and realize the room service is gone. The illusion of infinite resources vanishes. The credit card bills arrive. Difficult daily...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Apr 28, 2026, 12:15 AM

The Mitzva of the Omer which is commanded in Vayikra 23:9-21 is explained in the Talmud, Menachot 64b: to bring the barley reaped for the meal offering from fields proximate to Jerusalem. If the barley did not ripen in the...

Apr 21, 2026, 6:24 PM

Nepal’s Wildfire Crisis: Can Biomass Help?

( Photo Credit wikimedia )

Nepal is known for its diverse landscapes, beautiful forests and the magnificently tall snow capped mountains, over 46 percent of the land is covered in forests according to a report published by the world bank in November 2025. In...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 21, 2026, 7:32 AM

Israel Keeps Golan as Syria Joins Abraham Accords

With Israel and Lebanon working towards a longstanding peaceful settlement and neutralizing Hezbollah’s terrorist machinery, the moment has arrived for a full normalization with Syria too. This means diplomatic recognition, economic ties, and a strategic partnership under the Abraham...

Apr 17, 2026, 7:44 AM

The Soil Is Our Greatest Asset: What Jack London Means To Israeli Landscape

The Israeli agricultural landscape faces the most severe multi-front crisis on record in recent history, covered online with media buzz words by urban-based journalists lacking personal agricultural expertise, to "delve" into the Central Coastal Plain "tapestry" of Tel Aviv...

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