All posts tagged "the Jewish identity"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Torah as God’s Song

      At the end of his life, having given the Israelites at God’s behest 612 commands, Moses is instructed to give them...

• Blogs

  For Ethiopian Jews, the end of a 30-year road to Zion

    The arrival of 450 Falash Mura gives closure to Ethiopian Jews’ journeys to Israel — journeys marked by longing, pain, and...

• Arts and Entertainment

  Israel Seen Interviews Israeli Author David Lawrence-Young

  https://israelseen.com/shows/dlawrenceyoung.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More    D.Lawrence-Young (aka David L. Young) is an English, Drama and History teacher and...

• Steve

  Israel’s Borders: The Partition Plan and Beyond

      It appears to be simple and not complex at all. Is it possible to understand Israel and the conflict in the...

• Steve

  See What Happens When an Anti-Semitic Politician learns he is a Jew!!!

      What do you do when you learn you’re the very thing you hated? CBN News reports from Budapest on one man’s...

• Steve

  Tel Aviv’s first English radio station goes Live

        TLV1 is an English-language internet radio broadcast from the heart of Israel – Tel Aviv. Founded in 2013, TLV1 seeks to...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XVII) Ezekiel

    In these three chapters the Prophet describes the dimensions and chambers of the third and final Temple destined to last forever....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  A Sense of History

      Art by Phillip Ratner – Ratner Musem. Ki Tavo begins with the ceremony of bringing firstfruits to the Temple. The Mishnah...

• Blogs

  The Pernicious Price of Capitulation

    By Chloe S Valdary. After the release of 26 murderers as a gesture of good faith to Abu Mazen’s relatively moderate...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Parameters of Justice

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner – Ratner Museum In Deuteronomy 24, we encounter for the first time the explicit statement of a...

• Guest Contributors

  Young U.S. Jews feel closer to Israel, studies find

      Young American Jews have closer ties to Israel than ever before, while Israelis who have moved to the United States are...

• Steve

  Why Europe Has a Problem with Israel

      Why do so many in Europe feel so much hostility to the most open and liberal democracy in the Middle East?...

• Guest Contributors

  Joshua in the Bible – Elie Wiesel

     Sculpture by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum   Bible Review‘s Supporting Roles By Elie Wiesel   Joshua, the perfect disciple. Obedient and humble. The...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XVI) Ezekiel

    Our Sages teach us that the Creator’s ways and attributes are all good and righteous. We realize this if we take...

• Blogs

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XV) Ezekiel

       One reiterated statement in the prophecies of Ezekiel to Israel and the nations is “and you shall know that I am...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Testing Prophecy – A prophet is not an oracle: a prophecy is not a prediction

          Art by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum. In his enumeration of the various leadership roles within the nation that would take shape after...

• Blogs

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XIV) Ezekiel

      We must reflect on the warnings the permanent awareness of our connection with the Creator gives us. We have learned in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Judaism’s Social Vision

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum . If you seek to understand Judaism’s social vision, look at its anti-poverty legislation. “It demeans,...

• Alma Beit Midrash Series

  Rav Kook Revolution – Part V – Final Session

  https://israelseen.com/shows/kook5.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More     Session Five: The Song of Songs – Shalom and shleimut-peace...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Ekev – Greatness and Humility

    By Rabbi Lord Sacks.  A sequence of verses in this week’s sedra gave rise to a beautiful Talmudic passage – one...