Fewer grand ceremonies, more intimate conversations; less identification with the victims, more empathy and understanding.

As the world celebrates Earth Day 2025, an Israeli research collaboration is offering fresh hope in the global effort to protect crops—without harming the planet.

“SIRT-6 doesn’t just help us live longer—it helps us live better,” says Prof. Haim Cohen, founder and chief scientist at Sirtlab and head of the Sagol Center for Healthy Aging at Bar-Ilan University. “We’ve managed to elevate SIRT-6 levels in older test subjects to those typically seen in much younger individuals, and the effects are stunning.”

The Story We Tell—And Live

Each year on Passover, Jews around the world sit down to recount the Exodus—the foundational story of liberation from slavery. It is a tale of transformation: from oppression to freedom, from silence to voice, from object to subject. And yet, the Haggadah does not present this journey as a completed historical episode.