All posts tagged "Jews"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Think Long – Behar – Jonathan Sacks

    By Jonathan Sacks Please take the time and read this weeks commentary. His insights transcend  personal religious  identity.   Jonathan Sacks:...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Be Not Afraid of Greatness – Israel – Jonathan Sacks

                   Be Not Afraid of Greatness: By Rav Jonathan Sacks.  Embedded in this week’s parsha are two of the most fundamental commands...

• Blogs

  Special: After the Hamas-Fatah Agreement

   Hamas-Fatah Agreement: Commentary, Analysis, and Observations.   Hamas-Fatah Agreement   Iran Welcomes “Anti-Zionist” Palestinian Reconciliation (AFP-Global Post) “The Islamic Republic of Iran...

• Steve

  Tel Aviv Sirens Sounded as a Reminder of Holocaust Remembrance Day

    Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) began this past evening in Israel. Today , we all remember 6 million Jews, who perished...

• Blogs

  “No disagreement Fatah and Hamas about belief, policy or resistance”

      Fatah and Hamas by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik   The agreement signed yesterday between Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah and...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Followership – Kedoshim – the Great “holiness code”

   Followership By Rav. Jonathan Sacks. There is a fascinating sequence of commands in the great “holiness code” with which our parsha begins,...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked” son’s question

    Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked” son’s question. By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.   Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked”...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Passover-How It Tells its Story, The Unasked Question, and The Jewish Task

        All three taken from the Jonathan Sacks Haggada. As Passover ( Pesach) approaches I thought it would nice to...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Sprints and Marathons – Acharei Mot

      Sprints and Marathons   By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. It was a unique, unrepeatable moment of leadership at its highest height. For forty...

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  Metamorphosis: A Hungarian Extremist Explores His Jewish Roots

            A Hungarian Extremist Explores His Jewish Roots. Csanád Szegedi was a prominent right-wing extremist in Hungary until he discovered his own...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  How To Praise – subject of lashon hara, evil speech – Metsorah

                By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How To Praise. The sages were eloquent on the subject of lashon hara, evil speech, the sin...

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  Israel – Real Peace with the Jews by Bassam Tawil

    Real Peace with the Jews. Allah will gather them [the Israelis] so that we can kill them.” — Abbas Zaki, Fatah...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Price of Free Speech – Tazria – Commentary

     The Price of Free Speech. By Rabbi Sacks Hannah Smith was a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl living in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Bright and outgoing,...

• Blogs

  The Israeli Response to “Apartheid Week” Posters

    Thanks to EoZ for the posters. These posters contain the seeds of Truth that permeates the entire Israeli society. We hope...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Reticence vs. Impetuosity – Shemini – It should have been a day of joy –

    By Rav. Jonathan Sacks, It should have been a day of joy. The Israelites had completed the mishkan, the sanctuary. For...

• Zohar Raviv

  Dr Zohar Raviv – Key Paradigms of Jewish Thought and Life – Four Part Series

      In this period after Purim  and with Passover just around the corner  we thought it appropriate to share this four...

• Blogs

  Purim in Tel Aviv 2014

      The photos were taken during the reading of the Megillah on Saturday evening and during our stroll through Tel Aviv....

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  Purim, the most boisterous and exuberant of all Jewish festivals.

  “If you’re driving through a Jewish area this Saturday night or Sunday, don’t be surprised if you see lots of children in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The great leaders know their own limits – Tzav

                  By  Rav. Jonathan Sacks. The great leaders know their own limits. They do not try to do it all themselves. They...

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  Let’s take a trip down memory lane with J-Street

  “Jeremy Ben Ami, of course, believes that Israeli democracy is worthless when he doesn’t agree with who they elected. Therefore, he created...