Jacques Pauw's The President's Keepers can fill one with despair; or it can infuse one with hope, humility and the challenge to emulate a...

Whoever has the ability to protest against the members of his household, and doesn’t, is caught up with the members of his household....

How a democratic organisation can become a tyrrany. Elie Wiesel's electric words from his 1986 Nobel acceptance speech echoed so...

We expect evil to look terrifying; but most evil is terrifyingly bland. One of the questions we deal with in the aftermath of the...

A morsel for your table this Tu Bishvat - when you eat your date! Pictured above is a Jewish Date Palm. Why Jewish? Because it was frozen...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Santayana. The Yolocaust project was a true shock to the system. Brilliant...

We need to pursue the other side of the story; especially when we disagree This past week saw a partial fallout in South Africa from...

Prayer is about expanding our horizons; and impelling us to act. At the moment, I'm reviewing the Talmud Tractate of B'rachot. It...

Welcome to the site and to the blog! For those who are new to my horizons or to the Maharal or any of my other projects, it's great to...