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Author: Reuben Modek

It Takes Everyone To Holistically Manage A Pandemic

It Takes Everyone To Holistically Manage A Pandemic (part 3)

(Continued from part 2) ​EINSTEIN’S INSIGHT Not enough is known about how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic in spite of a century long history of reductionist medical successes, including past vaccination campaigns. We have been caught by surprise by a new magnitude of health crisis. The pandemic apparently is revealing

Kama Tov Sh’Baata Habayta Welcome Home

Shalom Hanoch sang in 1988 “Kama Tov Sh’Baata Habayta, Kama Tov Lir’ot Otkha Shuv… How good it is that you have come home, how good it is to see you again”. In those innocent days of the 1980s, we have not yet truly known the meaning of national longing for

Israel Palestine, The Elephant in The Room

Have you ever noticed that when we, Westerners, discuss the motivations behind the Israeli Palestinian conflict, there seems to be an “elephant in the room”, an awareness that hovers in the space but all pretend doesn’t exist? The elephant is the role that religious ideologies and religious sentiment play in

Can We Care For Our Enemy?

Caring About The Enemy A facebook slogan that has been somewhat viral goes, “I can feel heartbroken for two peoples at the same time”. Among friends and colleagues, especially those of us who are politically progressive, spiritually and emotionally sensitive, and morally conscientious there has been this debate of late:

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