All posts tagged "Jewish spirituality"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Power of Dreams – Mikketz

     In one of the greatest transformations in all literature, Joseph moves in one bound from prisoner to prime minister. What was...

• Steve

  Stories of the Baal Shem Tov for Chanukah

     The Baal Shem Tov had a special custom when the month of Kislev arrived. In the evening, he would gather together...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXVIII) Isaiah

      Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham . Our consciousness faces devastation with ego’s fantasies...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Power of Praise – Vayeshev

    Art By Phillip Ratner. Commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is a global religious leader, philosopher, the author of more than...

• Blogs

  Anglo life in Tel Aviv, under one umbrella

    The Am Yisrael foundation, a new nonprofit, offers a one-stop shop of English-speaking organizations in the White City.   By Debra...

• Guest Contributors

  Majorca’s Spain’s Master Chef Returns to the Jewish people

  Majorca Spain. by Michael Freund Sitting amid a sea of Hebrew books last week at a rabbinical court near Jerusalem, Tony Pina...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Why Be Jewish?

     By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. ” The Dignity of Difference” “Judaism and Jews represent the voice of hope in the conversation among...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Be Thyself – Vayishlach

    By Rabbi Sacks. I have argued in previous years of Covenant and Conversation that the episode in which the Jewish people...

• Guest Contributors

  Joy of Israel Episode 3 – Holy Hebron and Sweet Hebron Hills

    Jamie Geller’s food and travel show takes you to Hebron. Visit MaArat HaMachpela, The Tomb of the Patriarchs and the ancient...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXVII) Isaiah

  Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham  We must always be aware that we are an...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Light in Dark Times – Vayetse

  By Rabbi Sacks. What is it that made Jacob – not Abraham or Isaac or Moses – the true father of the...

• Guest Contributors

  On Creative Minorities – Rabbi Sacks – Erasmus Lecture

  On Monday 21st October 2013, Rabbi Sacks delivered the twenty-sixth Erasmus Lecture at the Union League Club in New York. Hosted by First...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXVI) Isaiah

    Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham   We have said that in the Messianic Consciousness...

• Steve

  Jesus: First-Century Rabbi

    I have had the great pleasure of learning with Reb Zaslow at the Annual Jewish Men’s Retreat in upstate in New...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Price of Silence

     By Rabbi Sacks, In an earlier Covenant and Conversation I quoted the Netziv (Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin, 1816-1893, dean of the...

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  A miracle and an outrage in Washington

  By CAROLINE B. GLICK. Restoring the Iraqi Jewish archive to its Israeli owners would be tantamount to recognizing that the cause of...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXV) Isaiah

  llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham   One of the most important lessons we learn from...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Beginning the Journey

     A while back, a British newspaper, The Times, interviewed a prominent member of the Jewish community – let’s call him Lord...

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  American Jews Should Own Their Success!

      getty images. Biden’s Support: Vice President Biden who spoke at the year’s J Street conference has said “that Jewish heritage, Jewish...

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  The Continuity of Israel will not falter.

  (Memories of a Hong Kong Rabbi) by Rabbi Lee Diamond   “Since antiquity, people have been predicting the demise of the Jews,...