Daniel Pinner

Explaining the corona virus

Why do bad things happen to good people?

When WWII ended there was no armistice, there was surrender

May 8, 1945 is the day that Nazi Germany recognized its defeat and had to agree to total surrender. And that brought peace. Opinion.

Did you notice which Haftarah was read today?

Unusually, the haftarah of the first of the two parshiyot of the week was read instead of that of the second

Yom Haatzma'ut: The dawn of redemption

History is full of events which in retrospect, with the benefit of historical hindsight, fit in with G-d’s design for Israel’s redemption

Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah Roundup

A Happy and Sweet Year

Ki Teitse: Remember, Forget, and Remember

The Land of Israel: What's at Stake?

Shabbat Hazon: In Our Hands, In Our Hearts

Hukkat: The Pivot of History

Telling of Freedom

Purim: Why Pretend?

Fast of Esther: Prelude to Purim and Redemption

G-d and Israel Reaching for Each Other

Appointing a King

Eicha! (Lamentations)

Shlach: Spies and Ties

Behar (Israel): The 19 Year Gap and the Redemption

Acharei Mot-Kedoshim, Atonement and Israel

The Story of Shabbat Hagadol

Who Set a Precedent for Bombing a Nuclear Reactor?

A Tale of Two Assads: Lion and Cub

End of Egypt, End of Pharaoh

Va'era: Knowing Hashem

Shemot: And Thus Begin All Exiles

The Dreamer Leads - Follow in his Footsteps

Vayetze: Unified Around the Tzaddik

Toldot: Free Will

The Banality of Good

Abraham Passes the Tests

Entering the Era of Torah

Sukkot:Building the Eternal Sukkah of Peace

Remember Pollard on the New Year

Of Covenants and Consolation

When You Go Out to War...

Shabbat Hazon and Parshat Dvarim

The Color Wheel of Politics

Mattot: Fighting Together for the Land of Israel

Whose Naksa is This Anyway?

Join a Pollard Pesach Initiative

Shabbat Parah and Parshat Shmini

Purim: Connecting Redemptions

The Tabernacle: Forgiveness

Vayeshev: History's Echoes

Shavuot: Pesach's Culmination

Closing the Circle: Jerusalem

Test Your Palestine IQ Part I

Test Your Palestine IQ Part II

Shemot: Prototype of Oppressors

Engines for Change

Vayelech: Completely Torah

Ki Tavo: First of All Things

Pinchas: Crime and Repentance

Matzah: Ingesting Holiness

HaChodesh: Being God's Partner

Your Majesty, You're Not Welcome

The Fast of the Tenth

Miketz: Visions of Redemption

Vayeshev: In Exile, Redemption

Ekev: A Declaration of Faith