Ode to Friendship
April 26, 2023
In a fracturing world, where politics divide family and friends, it is timely to reflect on the value and importance of friendship.
Paul Socken
Dr. Paul Socken is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and founder of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Waterloo.
On Losing Survivors
March 2, 2023
In the near future, there will be no witnesses to the Holocaust, no one to confront lies, denial and ignorance with personal experience.
Moshiach as Metaphor
February 2, 2023
Perhaps it is what we do in anticipation of the Moshiach’s coming that matters more than the actual arrival.
Ode to Small Things
December 7, 2022
Our historical and religious sources, as well as modern writers, attest to the very great task of the ostensibly ordinary person to forge a society of honor and dignity and hope.
Why Fear God?
November 3, 2022
Why fear? That sentiment is so out of keeping with our modern sensibilities. It seems harsh, counterintuitive: Why fear a loving God?
The Hardest Lesson
September 29, 2022
The hardest lesson in life is learning that we have an expiration date.
Each Person is a World
July 27, 2022
Each person—along with their beliefs and values—constitutes a world of potential, worth and promise.
Four Words to Change the World
May 25, 2022
They are so simple and yet they have eluded us since the beginning of time.
And the Winner of the Nobel Prize is…Jewish!
April 29, 2022
On the basis of Nobel Prize winners, Israel’s Technion placed higher than Harvard and every British university.
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