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Jul 2, 2025, 11:03 PM

Unified Currents: The Spiritual Science of Torah, Tzedakah, and Mitzvah

Across the worlds of spirituality and science, certain patterns emerge that reveal a more profound unity beneath their apparent differences. This unity in principle affirms the statement that God looked into the Torah and created this universe. Everything in...

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Jun 25, 2025, 10:11 PM

Wait a little bit: A lesson from the thorn tree

South Africa is a land of rare trees, strange cacti, and bushes that hum ancient tunes. Their shapes are sometimes distorted by time, their thorns hardened by desert winds, their names whispered in dozens of tongues—Zulu, Afrikaans, Khoisan, and...

Jun 25, 2025, 8:07 AM

Letting in the Light

Last week was the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. We had originally planned to share a message about light, presence, and connection to nature. But before we speak of light, we must...

Jun 8, 2025, 4:44 PM

Soaring Above the Icefields: A Journey into the Heart of Kluane

Nestled in the vast expanse of Canada's Yukon Territory, Kluane National Park and Reserve is home to some of North America's most awe-inspiring natural wonders. Among them stands Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak at 19,551 feet, surrounded by a...

May 29, 2025, 4:17 PM

How Should We Celebrate Shavuot in Israel Today?

The way Jewish communities observe Shavuot today bears little resemblance to how the festival was celebrated in biblical times. In the Torah, it is referred to as Chag ha-Katzir (חג הקציר)—“the Festival of the Harvest” (Exodus 23:16), and Chag...

Reuven Chaim Klein

May 10, 2025, 10:31 PM

Roses are Red – shoshanah, chavatzelet, vered

On the 9th of Iyyar in the year 2017, my grandmother Rose (Roszi) Klein passed away. She was born in 1928 in the Hungarian town of Bonyhad to Meir and Devorah Kuttner. After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust and...

Reuven Chaim Klein

May 4, 2025, 12:28 AM

Niftar or Dead?

The Torah introduces the laws of the sacrificial services of Yom Kippur by noting that Hashem relayed them to Moses after the deaths (acharei mot) of Aharon’s two sons (Lev. 16:1). The Torah then continues to discuss various other topics, running...

Apr 30, 2025, 6:57 AM

Israel’s beautiful nature, in photographs

From the anemone and blue butterflies, to the gazelles, the hoopoes, and the varied terrain, here are 77 reasons to love the land and those that dwell there

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Apr 30, 2025, 6:38 AM

Good news: climate change is tanking capitalism

How is that good news? So far, greed seems to be the main incentive to deny climate change. But if the whole financial system threatens to collapse, we finally might have the news that could awaken the money hoarders, telling them...

Apr 24, 2025, 9:19 AM

Memories, Mandelbrot & Tulip Mania

While madeleines may have triggered recherche du temps perdu for Proust, my family finds meaning in mandelbrot. The crunchy layer of cinnamon sugar on top of each slice stirs up memories of Passovers past, and now that 2025’s seders...

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