All posts tagged "Jerusalem"

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Ahavat Yisrael (love of Israel) – the duty that a leader bears for his nation.

  PARSHAT SHOFTIM (by Yehuda HaKohen) SHOFTIM deals primarily with statutes pertaining to Israel’s leadership. Because leadership is not a position of honor...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Shoftim: The Justice of God’s Love

  Ariel Ben Avraham . The Torah commands us that “Judges and officers you shall place at all your city-gates” (Deuteronomy16:18), the Prophet...

• Harley Zipori

  Hard Landing and Beer Festivals

  Please see the end of this blog for information on soon-to-happen beer events. Returning from a vacation always seems to be a...

• Steve

  Israel – Birth of a Nation – Sir Martin Gilbert

  Fair Use as per US Copyright Law. The legends of the stolen land and “ethnic cleansing” are hard if not impossible to...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Separated from the mind, the heart became numb and developed into a “Heart of Stone”

      PARSHAT R’EH. by Yehuda HaKohen “Then it shall be that the place where HaShem, your G-D, will choose to rest His...

• Blogs

  National Geographic – Israel Trail one of Worlds Best

    Hikers walk the Israel National trail, 2008 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90).  JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel National Trail was named one...

• Steve

  Natalie Portman and Hadassah

  We all know that Academy Award winner, Natalie Portman has been very  supportive of Hadassah by putting her name behind our cause....

• Steve

  Somebody out there wants to kill me

  By Yair Lapid. The recent terror attempt at Sinai, which was miraculously thwarted at the last minute, reminded me of a very...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  As Israel returns to independence in our land…

             PARSHAT EKEV by Yehuda HaKohen. Another point of view. EKEV opens and closes with challenging ideas meant to condition the...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  HaShem is not some giant invisible tyrant but rather the timeless ultimate Reality

  PARSHAT VA’ETCHANAN (by Yehuda HaKohen) “I implored HaShem at that time, saying, `My L-rd, HaShem, You have begun to show Your servant...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Va’etchanan: The Lord is our God, the Lord is One

  By Ariel Ben Avraham. We must conceive our connection and relationship with God as part of Him. This is the main lesson...

• Yitzhaq Hayut-man

  A LOVE For The WORLD

  Rav Kook; transl. Rabbi B.Z. Bokser. “Great souls cannot dissociate themselves from the most universal concerns…The whole cannot achieve its highest fulfillment...

• Yitzhaq Hayut-man

  Jerusalem: The Scandal of Particularity

  Norman Podhoretz Commentary Magazine July/August 2007. Discussing the apparent “scandal” of Jerusalem’s particularity – and that of the belief of the choseness...

• Guest Contributors

  UNRWA and the Right of Return

  by Asaf Romirowsky and Louise Ellman Chair: Good evening everyone. I am Louise Ellman MP, and on behalf of the Henry Jackson...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Devarim: Facing the Material World

  by Ariel Ben Avraham. “The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb [Sinai], [and] said: ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Turn and journey forth (…)’” (Deuteronomy 1:6-7)...

• Blogs

  Israeli Olympic Team Salutes Jerusalem

  Israel’s Olympic team with President Shimon Peres and Sport Minister Limor Livnat Flash 90. Israel’s Olympic team has decided to respond to...

• Algemeiner News Service

  90 Years Later The Mandate for Palestine Still Matters

      Israelis and friends of the Jewish State alike are accustomed to the never-ending scorn the United Nations heaps on the Middle...

• Steve

  Mayor of Tel-Aviv-Yafo: Jerusalem is the capital of Israel

  Apparently the BBC and the Guardian UK think otherwise.   httpv://youtu.be/u1wJHaI56Vw

• Blogs

  News Resources – Headlines in the News – Middle East

  This new feature comes to us by way of the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs. In-Depth Issues: Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  You shall possess the land and you shall dwell in it – Parshat Masei

    Another perspective on the past and present situations in the Redemption of the Jewish Nation, Eretz Yisrael, State of Israel. by...