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Dr. Zohar Raviv is a world-renowned educator of Judaism, whose academic and professional experience span Israel, North-America, Europe, South-Africa and Australia. Raviv holds a B.A in Land of Israel Studies (Bar-Ilan University), a Joint M.A in Jewish Thought and Education (Brandeis University), as well as an M.A in Near-Eastern Studies and a Ph.D in Jewish Thought and Mysticism (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Raviv recently assumed the position of Chief Education Officer for Taglit-Birthright Israel, after finishing his tenure as Assistant professor of Jewish Studies at Oberlin College (Ohio). These are a series of videos of the first session of 4 lectures that Dr. Raviv is presenting on Key Paradigms of Jewish Thought and Life. This first one is on The Evolving “One” : Ideas of God in Jewish Discourse. It is both fascinating and thought provoking. He provides a variety of approaches in understanding the Philosophical, Theological, and Religious implications in the origin of the “Jewish” God. “Eventually the human mind will express the necessity of “One”.

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Rabbi Lewis is a Rabbi at Congregation Etz Chaim in Marietta, Georgia USA. This is on the congregation web site about Rabbi Lewis: A graduate of Temple University, Rabbi Lewis was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He also holds graduate degrees in education and Judaica. His warmth and enthusiasm are contagious!

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This article speaks to many of us that have grown up in this era and in fact speaks to us presently in Israel as well. There is a “war” of words and of ideas that resonates, often at a frantic pace, by both sides of the political spectrum. In this cacophony of sound we can’t even hear our own voices. With this Jewish New Year and with Yom Kippur upon us, we all need to take a break from the unconscious walk-about in our daily lives and breathe in the present moment, wake up from this dream-like state with the Shofar shouting in all its glory, crying out to us as individual human beings, a nation filled with purpose and mission and a people that has a unique connection through out the entire world. It’s the invisible that makes the visible possible.

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Author of Genesis and the Big Bang; in which he shares his discovery of harmony between modern science and the Bible. Dr. Gerald Schroeder Phd earned his doctorate in earth physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also authored The Science of God and The Hidden Face of God. Dr. Schroeder lives and teaches in Jerusalem

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“The Truth about Judas Iscariot” is a book that is at once a work of philosophy, cosmology, literature, poetry, mythology, anthropology, psychology, and history, not to mention, of course, a commentary on religion. Of the several recently-published books that draw on new information about the Judas character, this is the most holistic and most thought-provoking. It is not just about what we have learned from newly discovered ancient documents, but it is about the many ideas and nuances of thought that form a two-thousan

d year commentary on Judas and Jesus, and on all the related issues of betrayal, conspiracy, human motivation, divine intervention, condemnation and redemption. Ultimately, it is about the history and meaning of good and evil in our world.”
–Dan Burstein, author of the New York Times Bestseller, Secrets of the Code.  Continue Reading »