All posts tagged "Judaism"

• Blogs

  Israeli negotiators green light on borders, settlements concessions before Palestinians Deal

    Israeli negotiators. A report aired Friday on Israel’s Channel 10 revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had given the green...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Followership – Kedoshim – the Great “holiness code”

   Followership By Rav. Jonathan Sacks. There is a fascinating sequence of commands in the great “holiness code” with which our parsha begins,...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Seasons of Love – Three biblical books about love

  Seasons of Love:Song of Songs, Book of Ruth, Ecclesiastes     By Rav. Jonathan Sacks   Seasons of Love   Shir HaShirim...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Passover-How It Tells its Story, The Unasked Question, and The Jewish Task

        All three taken from the Jonathan Sacks Haggada. As Passover ( Pesach) approaches I thought it would nice to...

• Blogs

  Metamorphosis: A Hungarian Extremist Explores His Jewish Roots

            A Hungarian Extremist Explores His Jewish Roots. Csanád Szegedi was a prominent right-wing extremist in Hungary until he discovered his own...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  How To Praise – subject of lashon hara, evil speech – Metsorah

                By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How To Praise. The sages were eloquent on the subject of lashon hara, evil speech, the sin...

• Zohar Raviv

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

      In this period after Purim  and with Passover just around the corner  we thought it appropriate to share this four...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XLIII) Isaiah

    By Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . Messianic Consciousness by Ariel Ben Avraham. We must understand Jewish prophecy...

• Blogs

  Purim, the most boisterous and exuberant of all Jewish festivals.

  “If you’re driving through a Jewish area this Saturday night or Sunday, don’t be surprised if you see lots of children in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The great leaders know their own limits – Tzav

                  By  Rav. Jonathan Sacks. The great leaders know their own limits. They do not try to do it all themselves. They...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Celebrate – Pekudei dvar Torah – Covenant and Conversation

       “If leaders are to bring out the best in those they lead, they must give them the chance to show they...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XLI) Isaiah

    By Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham.   “The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Team-Building – Vayakhel

             By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How do you remotivate a demoralized people? How do you put the pieces...

• Guest Contributors

  A Wonderful Story: 114 year old Kurdish Rabbi in Jerusalem

  From Rudaw.net:   By Lazar Berman. In a humble apartment in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood, about a mile south of the walls of the...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XL) Isaiah

  Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham.“For you have forgotten the God of your redemption, and...

• Blogs

  “The 7 Principles to Inner Happiness”

      By Rav Sacks. What are some of the key principles to consider when looking to lead a life of true inner...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXIX) Isaiah

  Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham   In the entire chapter 15 the Prophet denounces the...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Counterpoint of Leadership – Tetzaveh

          One of the most important Jewish contributions to our understanding of leadership is its early insistence of what, in the eighteenth...

• Guest Contributors

  Ruth Wisse: Modern anti-Zionism,… A Patented Invention

    Ruth Wisse: The Dark Side of the War on ‘the One Percent’  Stoking class envy is a step in a familiar,...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Home We Build Together – Terumah

                  By Rav Jonathan Sacks. The sequence of parshiyot, Terumah, Tetzaveh, Ki Tissa, Vayakhel and Pekudei, is puzzling in many ways. First,...