All posts tagged "Judaism"

• Blogs

  A Nazi’s Son in the IDF – An Amazing Story and Interview

    What does a decorated Nazi tell his son about the war? Nothing. Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger shares his story about the journey...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Holiness and Childbirth

           A deeply profound explanation of this weeks Torah portion by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.  The sidrot of Tazria and...

• Blogs

  Shocking New TV Documentary on Anti-Semitism

      A very powerful 40-minute documentary about antisemitism in our world. A look at how the “Jews are to blame” for just...

• Blogs

  Antisemitism matters because it’s an assault on humanity

    By Rabbi Lord Sacks. This coming Sunday is Yom Hashoah, the day we in the Jewish community observe our Holocaust Remembrance...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Fire – Holy and Unholy

     Sculpture by International Artist Phillip Ratner. This is a truly powerful interpretation/explanation of this weeks Torah reading.   By Rabbi Lord...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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

  Tetzaveh: Realizing Our Bond with the Creator

     By Ariel Ben Avraham . One of the definitions of the Sanctuary [Temple of Jerusalem], besides being a specific geographic location...

• 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...