The Giving of the Torah is the most important event in Jewish history as well as in world history. The Torah is...
PARSHAT MISHPATIM. by Yehuda HaKohen. MISHPATIM deals primarily with the civil laws that govern communal interaction. The fact that these decrees...
By SUZANNE LAST STONE. “Many American Jews are perplexed,...
by Mudar Zahran A Palestinian writer and academic from Jordan, who now resides in the UK as a political refugee. http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2841/media-antisemitism Are...
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner. By Yitzhaq Hayut-man Parashat Yitro (Exodus 18:1 – 20:23) – The Sinai Revelation in Multimedia Production Parashat Yitro...
By Daniel Johnson “Jewish history teaches, if anything can, that there is a purpose to human existence and that we are not...
A compelling perspective on the thought and life of Abraham Joshua Heschel that is beginning to take root in Israeli society. Dror...
(Ex. 13:17-17:16) – Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man. In the preceding Parashot in the Book of Exodus we have focused on items that came...
PARSHAT BESHALACH (by Yehuda HaKohen) “Pharaoh approached; the Children of Israel raised their eyes and behold! – Egypt was journeying after them,...
By David Hazony. The stories in this week’s reading may seem disjointed, but in fact they form a single unit. A modern editor,...
by Ariel Ben Avraham. One of the fundamental principles that the Torah teaches, and the book of Exodus in particular, is the...
The Israeli Democracy Institute today formally presents the findings of the third Guttman-AVI CHAI report, A Portrait of Israeli Jews: Beliefs, Observance, and...
Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man. The name of the third Parashah in the Book of Exodus (Shemot, meaning “Names of…”) is Bo (בא) –...
by Ariel Ben Avraham The last three plagues prior to the Exodus from Egypt came with a deeper awareness of the Creator...
by Yehuda HaKohen .”You shall safeguard the matzot, for on this very day I will have taken your legions out of the...
Limmud Life: Events like the recent Limmud New York getaway are taking up space in the Jewish world that synagogues once exclusively...
by Yehuda HaKohen. “Pharaoh replied, `Who is HaShem that I should heed His voice to send out Israel? I do not know...
Parashat va’Era (Exodus 6:2-8:28) by Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man. The name of the parashah – ‘VaEra’ – only appears once and that is...
We are lightening things up a bit today at israelseen. With all the speculation about the “end of days” we thought it...
by Yehuda HaKohen. “The King of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the first was Shifrah and...
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