The 21st c. is characterized by globalization and the rise of Asia. The global world needs a set of global ethics which will enable multi-cultural and multi-religious peaceful co-existence, and enable humanity to focus on global issues such as education, health, ecology and sustenance while reducing consumerism and pollution. There are ample Asian sources and ideas to be explored and applied and especially within the two great Asian cultures and civilizations of India and China.
In my work, I aspire to bring together ideas from Western, Indian, and Chinese sources and turn them into a system of Applied Asian Ethics. At the Center of my work lies the Bhagavad gita, which I consider not only to be a religious text of wisdom, but a philosophical text offering a multi-religious and multi-cultural paradigm which can serve as the pivot of an East-West system of Global Ethics.
In doing so I aspire to bring together cultures and theologies and further Comparative Theology; as such I promote the comparison of Indo-Chinese and Hindu-Jewish studies. As I live and work in the Galilee, I also aspire to bring together the cultures of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Druz tradition.
I have been developing Hind-Jewish Studies which is an emerging academic field with much potential. To my mind, Judaism has an important role to play as a bridge between Asia and the West thus enriching both Western and Asian thought, and being enriched itself in the process. I also encourage the development of Asian-Jewish Studies mainly through the Asian-Jewish conferences I have been organizing since 2012.
As I see the Bhagavad gita to be the central pivot of my work, I am promoting Gita studies and aspire to publish the Gita in various languages. I also aspire to promote Gita studies in India, the motherland of the Gita, and further the idea that the Bhagavad-gita can serve as an all Indian book, bringing together religions and cultures in a non-sectarian and multi-cultural way.