All posts tagged "Jews"

• Blogs

  On Boycotting Israel

       by Douglas Murray. There are a lot of Nazi caparisons being thrown around these days. Where might they be most...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Hopes and Fears – Chayei Sarah

      The simple answer is because they happened. That, however, cannot be all. We misunderstand Torah if we think of it...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Even Higher Than Angels

  Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. It is one of the most famous scenes in the Bible. Abraham is sitting at the entrance to...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Hillel: “If I am not for myself, who will be? But if I am only for myself, what am I?”

  The Jewish community could not exist for a day without its volunteers’ By Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi. Volunteering has been undervalued in...

• Blogs

  240 Ethiopian Immigrants Flown to Israel

  By Naama Barak. Jewish Agency’s Operation Dove’s Wings aims to bring all remaining Falash Mura to the country by October 2013 A...

• Guest Contributors

  The Biblical Case for Limited Government

  By Yoram Hazony This is a version of an essay that appeared in the October 2012 issue of First Things. The original...

• Steve

  The Red Line – A Must View

    This excellent new video is a MUST-Watch! A nuclear armed Iran is not just a physical threat – but so much...

• Blogs

  Finding your Jewish identity in a secular world

                    The Chief Rabbi recently spoke at the Hillel at the University of Pennsylvania on the subject of...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Covenant & Conversation: Lech Lecha – Making Space

    By Artist Phillip Ratner.  By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks  The call to Abraham, with which Lech Lecha begins, seems to come...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Yoram on Avrum and the Binding of Issac – Akaida

  Sculpture by Phillip Ratner By Yoram Getzler. Recently Avraham Burg, who is known as Avrum wrote an essay on the Binding of...

• Steve

  DISCOVERING THE JEWS OF NIGERIA

  By Remy Ilona How did I discover that up to 30% of the Nigerian population are of Jewish descent? An Exclusive for...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Noach – True Morality

         by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks   Is there such a thing as an objective basis of morality? For some time, in secular...

• Zohar Raviv

  Dr Zohar Raviv – Key Paradigms of Jewish Thought and Life – Four Part Series

  In this period after  the New Year we thought it appropriate to share this four part series of lectures by Zohar Raviv...

• Blogs

  RE-EMERGING: The Jews of Nigeria

                               By  Jeff Lieberman THE IGBO: JEWS OF NIGERIA? Several years ago, the Internet was...

• Blogs

  City of David marks 13th annual archaeological conference

    by Gil Zohar. The City of David marked its 13th annual archaeological conference last week (Sept. 6). The site, the most...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Who creates, sustains and affectionately empowers all that exists

      The Torah begins with the dawn of Creation. To fully appreciate this narrative, one must recognize history to be more than...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  In The Beginning – “What is man that You are mindful of him?”

      Rabbi Isaac said: The Torah should have begun with the verse (Ex. 12: 1): “This month shall be to you...

• Blogs

  Jewish state needs a Yavneh for our time

   Israeli college students (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)  The Jewish state needs a Yavneh for our time – a great academy filled with...

• Steve

  Point-Counter-Point with Yossi Klein Halevi

  Point-Counter-Point is a threaded discussion on major issues among leading thinkers in the Jewish world in Israel and North America. On a...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Learn from Moshe that all of Am Yisrael is holy and deserving of our patience, understanding and love.

    by Phillip Ratner Ratnermuseum PARSHAT VEZOT HABRACHA (by Yehuda HaKohen) “Fortunate are you, O Israel: who is like you! O people...