All posts tagged "Jews"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Celebrate – Pekudei dvar Torah – Covenant and Conversation

       “If leaders are to bring out the best in those they lead, they must give them the chance to show they...

• IDF

  IDF Diversity Week: the True Face of Israel

    Today we begin IDF Diversity Week, a celebration of the differences that unite Israeli soldiers. Every year, thousands of minority recruits join...

• Guest Contributors

  Give peace a chance? A Dose of Nuance

  Saul Bellow Photo: Wikimedia Commons. “To this day, no Palestinian leader will look at their people and say “The Jews, too, are...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Team-Building – Vayakhel

             By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How do you remotivate a demoralized people? How do you put the pieces...

• Algemeiner News Service

  Israeli artist, playwright and professor Dahn Hiuni Calls for RDS

  Israeli artist, playwright and professor Dahn Hiuni. Photo: Dahn Hiuni. Israeli artist, playwright and professor Dahn Hiuni on Tuesday said he launched...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  How Leaders Fail – Ki Tissa

                  By Rav Jonathan Sacks. Leaders can fail for two kinds of reason. The first is external....

• Blogs

  Fatah and the “Armed Struggle” against Israel

                   Jibril Rajoub, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and former commander of the Palestinian security forces. (Image source: Palestinian Media...

• Blogs

  “The 7 Principles to Inner Happiness”

      By Rav Sacks. What are some of the key principles to consider when looking to lead a life of true inner...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Counterpoint of Leadership – Tetzaveh

          One of the most important Jewish contributions to our understanding of leadership is its early insistence of what, in the eighteenth...

• Guest Contributors

  Between Pluralism and Secularism: “Something is happening in Israel.”

     Between Pluralism and Secularism: An American Jewish Educator’s Journey into the World of Israeli Secular Torah Study. by Rabbi David Kasher...

• Guest Contributors

  Ruth Wisse: Modern anti-Zionism,… A Patented Invention

    Ruth Wisse: The Dark Side of the War on ‘the One Percent’  Stoking class envy is a step in a familiar,...

• IDF

  Israeli-Arab Woman and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

    Monaliza Abdo is Arab, Christian, Israeli and a brave defender of Jews and minorities alike. She wasn’t required to enlist in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Home We Build Together – Terumah

                  By Rav Jonathan Sacks. The sequence of parshiyot, Terumah, Tetzaveh, Ki Tissa, Vayakhel and Pekudei, is puzzling in many ways. First,...

• Algemeiner News Service

  An Upside Down World – It Appears that EU Leaders are Hypocrites and Deniers

      European Union (EU) flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Credit: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons. Catherine Ashton’s...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Vision and Details – Mishpatim

               By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Our parsha takes us through a bewildering transition. Until now in Shemot...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  A Nation of Leaders – Yitro

                  By  Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. This week’s parsha consists of two episodes that seem to be...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Stewardship Paradigm

      By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Few texts have had a deeper influence on Western civilisation than the first chapter of Genesis, with...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXV) Isaiah

      Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham.   “The burden of Babylon was seen by...

• Blogs

  David Hazony – The Ten Commandments – What Do They Really Mean Part I-5

  https://israelseen.com/shows/tenpart1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More Sculpture by Phillip Ratner David Hazony presents his insights on the Ten...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Looking Up – Beshallach

    By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The Israelites had crossed the Red Sea. The impossible had happened. The mightiest army in the ancient...