Daniel Lubetzky

Purpose, More Powerful than Empathy

A sincere purpose that creates a mission is the biggest driver towards action, according to this NYT article by David Brooks: People who actually perform pro-social action don’t only feel for those who are suffering, they feel compelled to act by a sense of duty. Their lives are structured by sacred codes. Think of anybody [...]

Powerful posters: capturing the conflict in pictures

by Kim Walker on behalf of Daniel Lubetzky OneVoice teamed up with students at Tirtza Grannot [the Academy of Commercial Communications] in Tel Aviv to create moving visuals that address many of the key issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The best 40 were then exhibited and a winner was chosen. The winning poster is below, [...]

The story of Bimbambu my Dad used to tell us as kids

My Dad used to tell us a story he conceived about a little bird named Bimbambu when we were kids. It is one of my favorite stories – about a kindly bird who literally sheds all his feathers in order to help other animals fight the winter weather along the way, only to end up [...]

Touching Human Story – Love Between the Rubble

It is rare that the first few paragraphs of a story in the  New York Times will make one cry.  But this story about the quake catastrophe in China is just such an example of human love and the quest for survival amidst adversity.

A beautiful love story from StoryCorps