All posts tagged "Jews"

• Blogs

  Israeli Musician Idan Raichel – Hotel California Experience

     About half a year ago while on a business trip to the U.S., I stayed at a roadside motel in the...

• Blogs

  More Jews Now Live In Israel Than In Any Other Country

      New census figures released today in Israel show that the Jewish state has taken its place, for the first time in...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Redemption and the Rational Mind

     David Hartman, 1931-2013. Passover, Rabbi Prof. David Hartman wrote in 2010, is meant to celebrate and sustain our deep yearning for...

• Blogs

  You Cannot Passover the Jewish State

     News of Israel’s Achievements and Heartwarming Stories from the Jewish State.  The modern State of Israel is almost the same size...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Pesach, or Passover, is the Jewish festival of freedom

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner . This past week my wife and I had the surprising pleasure of encountering  Rabbi Sacks and...

• Steve

  One Community – One Nation – One Israel – Together We Walk the Walk

    Passover greetings to everyone to the tune of the great Aretha Franklin’s immortal song Think! Also, What IF ?

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Rituals are how civilizations preserve their memory

       When people talk about religion in Britain, they tend to speak about beliefs. Which, for Jews, is very odd. Yes, belief...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Tzav – Violence and the Sacred

      By Rabbi Lord Sacks Judaism is less a philosophical system than a field of tensions – between universalism and particularism, for...

• Blogs

  Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post Speaks on the Facts in a IQ2 Debate in England

    We decided to put this video on israelseen because it represents views that are both compelling and that are supported by...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Between Destiny and Chance

    Art by Phillip Ratner   Commentary By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks  The third book of the Torah is known in English as...

• Yitzhaq Hayut-man

  OLD-NEW ISRAEL – Dr. Hayut-man

    A revolutionary proposal concerning Israel’s past and future  Dr. Yitzḥaq Ḥayut-Man The Israeli elections are already behind us but the coalition...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Two Types of Community

    Art by Phillip Ratner. Commentary By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. A long drama had taken place. Moses had led the people...

• Steve

  Merav Michaeli – New Labor MK – “My inaugural speech. I mean every word”.

      This is just one of the new members of the Israeli Knesset who speaks from the heart and represents the important...

• Music / Cultural Scene

  Rebbe Soul: American Jewish Popular Music Icon Makes Israel His Home

  https://israelseen.com/shows/rebbe%20soul.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More Rebbe Soul, American Jewish Popular music icon is the musician songwriter Bruce...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Love as our common bond

     By Ariel Ben Avraham   Ki Tisa: God’s Love The principle in the relationship between Israel and God is Love. We proclaim...

• Steve

  Buy Israel Week 2013 listen and learn

        This week, StandWithUs is promoting the Buy Israel Goods (BIG) week, as part of the Buy Israel Week 2013 initiative, a...

• Blogs

  Israel has been made an alibi for a new climate of antisemitism on the left

        By Norman Geras.Fathom In Marx’s essay On the Jewish Question, written in 1844, there are two contrasting sets of themes vis-à-vis...

• Steve

  Yoram Getzler 1938-2013 My Dear Friend and Co-host of Israelseen

    I am waiting for the train on my way to  my daughter’s house  in Kfar Sava so we can travel together...

• Blogs

  Tel Aviv Celebrates Purim in a Giant City Wide Street Party

    Friday afternoon we strolled on Rothchild Blvd, Chen Blvd and on Ibn Gvirol and Shaul Hamelech streets. Thousands were on hand...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Prophet and Priest

       By Lord Chief Rabbi Sacks. The sedra of Tetsaveh, as commentators have noted, has one unusual feature: it is the only...