All posts tagged "Judaism"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Generations Forget and Remember

    By Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. The drama of younger and older brothers, which haunts the book of Bereishit from Cain...

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  An Attempt to Identify the Root Cause of Antisemitism

       By A. B. Yehoshua.  A prominent Israeli author gets to the bottom of the world`s oldest hatred.   Editor’s note from...

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  Love as the Messianic Consciousness

     Sculpture by Phillip Ratner   By Ariel Ben Avraham  Love overcomes and transforms negative expressions of human consciousness. This sounds axiomatic considering...

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  In Israel Bearing Arms is a Priviledge not a Right

           By Mitch Ginsburg Times of Israel   In Israel, unlike the US, a privilege — but no right — to bear...

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  Disguises – Do They Work

    Art work by Phillip Ratner       Joseph is now the ruler of Egypt. The famine he predicted has come to pass....

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  Love is the catalyst to transform, redeem and elevate

      Sculpture By Phillip Ratner.  Mikeitz: Rectifying toward God’s Love We have said that consciousness has the potentials to transform what we...

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  Antisemitism and the flight of the ‘progressives’ – A Hanukkah Diarist

    “As my wife and I lit our Hanukkah candles last night, and we sang Ma’oz Tzur (מעוז צור), my mind darkly drifted back...

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  Inspired By Faith We Can Change The World

                    The Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks has recorded “8 Thoughts for 8 Nights” – a...

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  The Birthright of Love

                  Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar By Ariel Ben Avraham . The essential messages we have remarked in our...

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  The Refusal to be Comforted

    Jacob rent his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned his son for a long time. His sons and daughters tried to...

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  Save me from my ‘saviours’

      Well, thanks for the interest but if Christianity was ever going to do the trick for me it would have...

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  Safed – The City of Kabbalah – Mysticism

        By Laurie Rappeport. Travelers to Northern Israel can enjoy a fascinating visit to the ancient city of Safed, known as the...

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  Vayishlach – Fear or Distress

     Sculpture By Phillip Ratner Ratnermuseum.com   “A people capable of feeling distress, even in victory, is one that knows the tragic complexity...

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  I Will Be What I Will Be- Coming-Into-Being

      By Yoram Hazony.    Is God perfect? You often hear philosophers describe “theism” as the belief in a perfect being...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Elimination of Violence against Women

  By Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks This week’s parsha of Vayetze contains much about family relationships and conflict. Jacob, in love with...

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  How democratic were the children of Israel?

    Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks reviews leading American thinker Michael Walzer’s book on politics in the Bible. “Freedom was at the heart...

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  COVENANT & CONVERSATION: Vayetze – Encountering G-d

     Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks   Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “G-d is truly in this place, but I...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Toldot – Between Prophecy and Oracle – Relevant Today

  By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.  “the future is never as straightforward as we are led to believe. Abraham is promised many children...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  My Conversation With the Chief

  By Yoram Hazony. In Britain, you meet quite a few Jews who refer to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks simply as “the Chief.” True,...

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  On Boycotting Israel

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