All posts tagged "Jews"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Judaism’s Social Vision

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum . If you seek to understand Judaism’s social vision, look at its anti-poverty legislation. “It demeans,...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  Rav Kook Revolution – Part V – Final Session

  https://israelseen.com/shows/kook5.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More     Session Five: The Song of Songs – Shalom and shleimut-peace...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Ekev – Greatness and Humility

    By Rabbi Lord Sacks.  A sequence of verses in this week’s sedra gave rise to a beautiful Talmudic passage – one...

• Guest Contributors

  EU and Israel – A Story that Goes Way Back

    NGO Monitor is the latest in a long list of Israeli leaders and organizations to criticize the recent decision by the...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  Rav Kook Revolution – Part III

  https://israelseen.com/shows/kook2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More   Session Three: The Song of Humankind – The universal imperative. This series...

• Blogs

  Tisha B’Av and the virtue of Jewish Statehood

      Re-Post  from our friend Adam Levick’s essay on Tisha B’Av.(Here are a few paragraphs from an essay I had published today...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Tzedek: Justice and Compassion

    Art by  Phillip Ratner. Commentary By Rabbi Lord Sacks. As Moses begins his great closing addresses to the next generation, he...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Danger of Suspicion – Mattot-Massei

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner/Ratner Museum  Commentary By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. It is a fascinating story and from it comes one...

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  Religion and State in Israel

     Frontispiece of Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Abraham Bosse, 1651.  A Modest Proposal   By Moshe Koppel Every now and then, people...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  On Parents and Teachers

       Art by Phillip Ratner-Ratnermuseum.  Pinchas Commentary By Rabbi Lord Sacks. Just beneath the surface of this week’s parshah is an exceptionally...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Balak: The Hardest Word To Hear

  Art by Phillip Ratner   The story of Bilaam, the pagan prophet, begins with a bewildering set of non-sequiturs – a sequence of...

• Guest Contributors

  The God I Don’t Believe In

      Rabbi Richard A. Block  The search for Ultimate Truth is not an exclusively Jewish quest, but we’ve been at it longer...

• Blogs

  Pride, Lust, Technology—and the Hebrew Bible

    A Conversation with Leon Kass   By Mosaic Last month, Mosaic visited Leon R. Kass, author of our June essay, “The...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Why was Moses not destined to enter the Land?

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner It is one of the most perplexing, even disturbing, passages in the Torah. Moses the faithful shepherd,...

• Steve

  Yeshayahu Leibowitz 1903-1994

       After viewing this  interview with Leibowitz  we decided it is worth making this available to our readers. There is no doubt ...

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  Fabian Spagnoli – a question of identity leads home to Israel

  By Brian Blum Fabian Spagnoli doesn’t know why the man in the small shop in Spain said it. Spagnoli had gone in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Power vs. Influence

      The Korach rebellion was an unholy alliance of individuals and groups unhappy with Moses’ leadership. There was Korach himself, a member...

• Blogs

  The Ten Commandments Why the Decalogue Matters

    Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. A wonderful and important essay with creative insight and an inspiring message. By Leon R. Kass for...

• Guest Contributors

  The Rav Kook Revolution – Master of the Lights

             The author, Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein, declaims Rav Kook’s poetry as Rabbi Greg Wall leads his band, Greg...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schinah Part II

  https://israelseen.com/shows/miraregev2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More  The Rose, the Deer, the Fountain and the Schina. Lecturer: Mira Regev....