All posts tagged "Jews"
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Steve
Israel – Researchers Find American Indians With Jewish Genetic Markers
Israel – Geneticists at an Israeli hospital said they have found a unique Jewish genetic mutation among an American Indian tribe,...
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Weekly Torah Reading
The Parameters of Justice
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner – Ratner Museum In Deuteronomy 24, we encounter for the first time the explicit statement of a...
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Guest Contributors
Young U.S. Jews feel closer to Israel, studies find
Young American Jews have closer ties to Israel than ever before, while Israelis who have moved to the United States are...
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Guest Contributors
Joshua in the Bible – Elie Wiesel
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum Bible Review‘s Supporting Roles By Elie Wiesel Joshua, the perfect disciple. Obedient and humble. The...
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Weekly Torah Reading
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XVI) Ezekiel
Our Sages teach us that the Creator’s ways and attributes are all good and righteous. We realize this if we take...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Testing Prophecy – A prophet is not an oracle: a prophecy is not a prediction
Art by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum. In his enumeration of the various leadership roles within the nation that would take shape after...
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Guest Contributors
I Have No Chief Rabbi
By YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI . The two new chief rabbis, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, have promised that they will be...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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