All posts tagged "the Jewish identity"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked” son’s question

    Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked” son’s question. By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.   Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked”...

• 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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Sprints and Marathons – Acharei Mot

      Sprints and Marathons   By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. It was a unique, unrepeatable moment of leadership at its highest height. For forty...

• 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...

• Blogs

  Analyst: Netanyahu Made “Significant” Concessions, U.S. Focus on Abbas

       by TheTower.org Staff  As confusion surrounds the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, one of Israel’s leading analysts told reporters that Prime Minister...

• Guest Contributors

  An Alternative Model for Pro-Israel Liberals

  Alan Dershowitz has a blistering column in Haaretz today explaining why no self-respecting pro-Israel liberal should support J Street. Yet many genuinely...

• IDF

  IDF Soldier From New Zealand Gets a Surprise Visitor at End of 70km March

    IDF Soldier From New Zealand Gets a Surprise Visitor When Sam Gosling arrived at the end of his beret march, a...

• Steve

  City Kids – English Center for Young Families

     City Kids expands its facilities and activities in Tel Aviv. City Kids was founded by Elvia Fisher a visionary immigrant from...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Price of Free Speech – Tazria – Commentary

     The Price of Free Speech. By Rabbi Sacks Hannah Smith was a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl living in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Bright and outgoing,...

• Blogs

  It’s always ‘Groundhog Day’ with the Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace process’

    The 1993 movie “Groundhog Day,” in which the character played by Bill Murray relives the same day over and over again,...

• Blogs

  The Israeli Response to “Apartheid Week” Posters

    Thanks to EoZ for the posters. These posters contain the seeds of Truth that permeates the entire Israeli society. We hope...

• Blogs

  World’s Largest Shabbat Dinner to take place in Tel Aviv

    White City Shabbat launches crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for Guinness World Records Largest Shabbat Dinner, set to take place at the...

• Blogs

  The Left and the Jewish State

     By Joshua Muravchik The Tower Magazine “The Left and the Jewish State,”In a 2011 blog post titled “A Few Notes on...

• Blogs

  Finding His Roots: A Soldier’s Journey from Norway to Israel

    Soldier’s Journey from Norway to Israel Pvt. Jonny Petrsheim, originally from Norway, never imagined he would become a combat soldier in...

• Blogs

  Purim in Tel Aviv 2014

      The photos were taken during the reading of the Megillah on Saturday evening and during our stroll through Tel Aviv....

• 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...

• Steve

  David Horovitz – Interviews Israeli Entrepreneur Yossi Vardi

      A wonderful interview with Yossi Vardi by David Horowitz. Enjoy!  Also here is the latest from PM Cameron from the U.K....

• Blogs

  Jordanian’s Sheikh Ahmad al-Adwan: Cites Quranic Sources for Islam-Jewish Relations

      Sheikh Ahmad al-Adwan “Historic Palestine”? A heretical invention. The right to al-Aqsa? Nothing less than a distortion of Allah’s word • Jordanian...

• IDF

  International Women’s Day: Facts You Need to Know About Women in the IDF

      Women have proudly served in the IDF since its establishment. Almost all positions in the IDF are open to women,...