Our Souls in Service

Physician and teacher Rachel Naomi Remen invites readers to a deeper commitment to soul and service: It often seems that the problems in the world are large and overwhelming and there are limits to what we can accomplish as a single person or even as a single group....

A glimmer of hope for education in Israel

In one of his blessings, Pierre writes “All over the world, there are millions of people who serve in silence, who do good around them, who sow seeds of love and compassion, unheralded and infinitely modest about their achievements. However, they are the glue that...

Don’t give in to gloom and doom

No, I won’t give in to gloom and doom.My power is laughter, joy, the awareness that something greater vibrates behind the media and the world’s dramas.No, I’m not a better person if I suffer with those who suffer.No, I’m not a bad person if I...

Centuries-old Jerusalem soup kitchen serves up ‘food with dignity’

Taylor Luck – Special correspondent Down an almost-hidden passageway in Jerusalem’s labyrinthine Old City is Tikiya Khaski al-Sultan, a soup kitchen that dates to the height of the Ottoman Empire. It is a lifeline for modern-day Jerusalemites facing rising costs...

Tolerance in a world of constant contrasts

Never in the history of humanity have we been exposed to such an infinite variety of opinions, beliefs, forms of behavior, customs and so on. Humanity has become a melting pot of world dimensions! Be it in the areas of religious beliefs, forms of politeness, dress,...