All posts tagged "Judaism"

• 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...

• 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...

• Yitzhaq Hayut-man

  Investigation of The SERVANT NATION in the Haphtarah of Genesis

  Artist Phillip Ratner By Dr.  Yitzhaq Hayut-Man This last Shabbat (13.10.12) started a new yearly cycle of the reading of the Torah...

• 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...

• 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...

• Steve

  Can Israel’s ultra-conservative communities join modern society?

    An ultra-Orthodox family enjoys a rare Jerusalem snowfall. General education in Orthodox schools is “below Third World” by Gershom Gorenberg. “The...

• Steve

  Livin’ in a Booth – The Fountainheads

    A musical parody by The Ein Prat Fountainheads from the Ein Prat Academy, Israel http://foheads.com.   httpv://youtu.be/oXx5Wp3GcSE A parody of Bruno Mars...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  There is no more potent symbol of Jewish history than the sukkah

  Sukkot, or Tabernacles, is the most joyous of all the festivals. We call it the ‘season of our rejoicing’. And like Pesach...

• Blogs

  One day of doubt – One Day of Forgiveness

  On Yom Kippur God reminds us that most atrocities are committed in the name of ‘justice’ By Yair Lapid.   Yair Lapid...

• Steve

  Yom Kippur – Kol Nidre and Who by Fire

  Enjoy these two videos. May your New Year be filled with Health, Peace and Love. httpv://youtu.be/T2RrErhVxks http://rebshlomocarlebach.blogspot.com/ Reb Shlomo Carlebach -Yom Kippur...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Moshe went and spoke these words to all of Israel

  PARSHAT VAYEILECH by Yehuda HaKohen. This is another point of view on this portion of the Torah for the Shabbat before Yom...

• Guest Contributors

  The prayers of the High Holidays rest on personal responsibility—the basis of self-government

  The Whispers of Democracy in Ancient Judaism. By ERIC ROSENBERG . Jews are in the midst of a period known as the...

• Steve

  Dip Your Apple – Fountainheads Rosh Hashanah

    A Rosh Hashanah musical parody by The Ein Prat Fountainheads from the Ein Prat Academy,   httpv://youtu.be/FlcxEDy-lr0 Based on Shakira’s “Waka...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Powerful Pre-Rosh Hashanah address by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks of England

            This is a wonderfully inspirational address for  Jew and non-Jew alike . Have you ever wondered what Professor Ludwig Guttmann (the...

• Steve

  Call Me Maybe-Chana Tova

  Chana Tova et Hag Sameach!   httpv://youtu.be/2gj8nUAdgMw www.agencejuive.org Facebook/agencejuive Chana Tova et Hag Sameach! Merci a tous ceux qui ont participe au...