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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Six High Ideals
"Rosh Ha-Shanah is a time for us to contemplate our highest ideals and our actual behavior. We make amends to ourselves, to one another, and to God for the gap." So writes Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artso…
We'd Rather Shock Ourselves than Quietly Sit Alone
Talk to people today about being alone and many of us will admit that it is a very unsettling experience. Given a few unstructured moments, we fill it up with texting others, posting to our social m…
Skimming & Sharing
In an article in The New York Times, Karl Taro Greenfield is quite astonished to discover that more and more people are not reading books, newspapers, or magazines anymore but instead are picking up…
Next Door Democracy
When I first moved to Berkeley, California, almost three years ago, someone told me about the NextDoor app. I signed up right away and soon discovered that it is a great way to connect with your nei…
The Next Revolution in Digital Technology: Part 2
The Spiritual Implications of The Internet of Things
According to the Pew Research Center Internet Project in collaboration with Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center, we are enterin…
Rising above Stereotypes
by Kavya Shah
Strength is an overrated term; no one truly understands what it means to be strong or resilient.
Disarmed by Social Media
Societies depend on dialogue to function well. These days social media allows us to talk more than ever, but often that means declaring our opinions: talking "at" instead of "to" others. This approa…
Yellow: The Feeling of Mindfulness
By Olivia Bailey for KidSpirit's Happiness issue.
It’s Thursday, the best day of the week, no question. Thursday is the day my mindfulness group meets, which means that at 11:15 a.m. I get to l…
Is Anxiety a Way of Life for Our Generation?
By Uday Schultz for KidSpirit's Fear and Anxiety Issue.
We are the generation of stress. Generation Z, the Post-Millenials, Gen Tech, the young people of today — we are, more than seemingly eve…