Daniel Lubetzky

When my Dad passed away, I struggled a lot at the beginning with the concept of doing Kaddish.  Kaddish is a Jewish prayer where one exhalts, praises and blesses G’d.  It is a blessing recited by people who have lost a close relative (parent, child, sibling, or spouse).  The first year after the passing of [...]

I wrote before about Yom Kippur and fasting.  But like all things Jews do, we manage to eat a lot, so the pre-fast meal and post-fast dinner more than make up for the lack of food during the fast. This is the first year since my Dad passed away that all of our family was [...]

How does a secular Jew relate to prayer? What is the meaning of Judaism, particularly in the modern world?  What I love about Judaism has always been its overarching emphasis on striving to become better human beings.  The golden rule stems from Judaism: Do onto others… I particularly admire the concept of “Tikun Olam”, that [...]

It’s only 10:32 am in Los Angeles and the day has already been a big roller-coaster of developments and emotions (can I turn the latter off?). We started at 5:30am because our wonderful Adee Telem (who heads West Coast Outreach for OneVoice) decided we needed to be on an 8am flight from San Fran to [...]

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do the evil but by those who see it but do nothing about it…" -Albert Einstein

  Our intern Brian Lutter created this phenomenal ad for KIND Bars:   Here are some more things he created. What do you think?

  Tamar Hermann produces a very valuable "Peace Index" that tracks vital signs in the mood of Israelis and Palestinians with regards to attitudes about ending the conflict, and moods and opinions regarding Israeli-Arab peace making.  Here, for example, is their Peace Index for July 2007. But short of their professional work, I have four [...]

I just finished watching The Lives of Others, an extraordinary film about life in East Germany in 1984, where a totalitarian system suppressed freedom of action and thought, presumably not too differently from the way the State controls the lives of hundreds of millions of innocent human beings still today, from Iran to North Korea, [...]

This last summer and the next couple months, because of the work I am doing for October 18′s One Million Voices Summit, I realized I would need to live the life of a hermit.  I spent the last eight weeks in the Middle East, then 1 week in China, now am in the US traveling [...]

Here is another insight from Avraham Infeld: “First Lesson from the “Shoah” (the Holocaust): Look What Can Happen To People Who Have No Power.” “Second Lesson from the “Shoah”: Look What Can Happen To People Who Have Power.”