All posts tagged "Jews"

• Blogs

  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....

• Algemeiner News Service

  From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel by Robert Wistrich

      Noam Chomsky. Photo: Duncan Rawlinson.  A REVIEW. By Edward Alexander We Shall Build Ramallah in England’s Green and Pleasant Land”  ...

• Blogs

  Leadership Beyond Despair

    By Artist Phillip Ratner-ratnermuseum Commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, is remarkable for the extreme realism with...

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  Genesis of an anti-Semitic state

       I have known David Bedein since the 1980’s when both our families lived in Safed. Over the years he has consistently...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Future Tense – A Vision of Jews and Judaism in the Global Culture

      Why are we here? Why are we Jews? Why does the world need – if indeed it does – a Jewish...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  10 Questions We Want Answers To – in 4 minutes or less

    The Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks has recorded a series of short videos in answer to some of the most basic...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  What Counts?

    Art by Phillip Ratner Commentary  By Rabbi Lord Sacks This week’s sedra begins with a continuation of the census begun in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Love as Law, Law as Love

                     By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.  On the face of it the connections between the sedra and haftarah of Bemidbar are slender....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The modern world was shaped by four revolutions: The Chronological Imagination

  “I want, in this study, to look at one of Judaism’s most distinctive and least understood characteristics – the chronological imagination.”  By...