All posts tagged "Torah"

• Blogs

  Ari Lesser – Boycott Israel or Here is Israel

    Boycott Israel, if you think that’s just/But unless you have a double standard you must/Also boycott the rest of the nations/With...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXIX) Isaiah

     Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham .   We indicated in the beginning of these...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  8 Short Thoughts for 8 Chanukah Nights

      With Chanukah just around the corner, Rabbi Sacks has written eight short thoughts, one for each night of Chanukah. Why...

• Steve

  Hanukka – Chanukah – A Thanksgiving

  Happy Chanukah and Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at IsraelSeen. Enjoy the videos!   HANUKKAH – Heavenly LIGHTS on/of JERUSALEM [youtube=youtu.be/7ftHpuZ67Bo&w=520&h=315]...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Power of Praise – Vayeshev

    Art By Phillip Ratner. Commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is a global religious leader, philosopher, the author of more than...

• Blogs

  Anglo life in Tel Aviv, under one umbrella

    The Am Yisrael foundation, a new nonprofit, offers a one-stop shop of English-speaking organizations in the White City.   By Debra...

• Guest Contributors

  Majorca’s Spain’s Master Chef Returns to the Jewish people

  Majorca Spain. by Michael Freund Sitting amid a sea of Hebrew books last week at a rabbinical court near Jerusalem, Tony Pina...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Be Thyself – Vayishlach

    By Rabbi Sacks. I have argued in previous years of Covenant and Conversation that the episode in which the Jewish people...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXVII) Isaiah

  Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham  We must always be aware that we are an...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Light in Dark Times – Vayetse

  By Rabbi Sacks. What is it that made Jacob – not Abraham or Isaac or Moses – the true father of the...

• Guest Contributors

  On Creative Minorities – Rabbi Sacks – Erasmus Lecture

  On Monday 21st October 2013, Rabbi Sacks delivered the twenty-sixth Erasmus Lecture at the Union League Club in New York. Hosted by First...

• Steve

  Jesus: First-Century Rabbi

    I have had the great pleasure of learning with Reb Zaslow at the Annual Jewish Men’s Retreat in upstate in New...

• Blogs

  Why Jews Continue To Be Blamed for What Happened to Them

      Preaching to the Unforgiven: Man Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson recently delivered this speech at the B’Nai Brith World Center in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Price of Silence

     By Rabbi Sacks, In an earlier Covenant and Conversation I quoted the Netziv (Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin, 1816-1893, dean of the...

• Guest Contributors

  Demonizing Israel and the Jews by Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

    Recently, a new book, Demonizing Israel and the Jews by Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld , sent shock waves across Europe by revealing...

• Blogs

  A miracle and an outrage in Washington

  By CAROLINE B. GLICK. Restoring the Iraqi Jewish archive to its Israeli owners would be tantamount to recognizing that the cause of...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXV) Isaiah

  llustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham   One of the most important lessons we learn from...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Beginning the Journey

     A while back, a British newspaper, The Times, interviewed a prominent member of the Jewish community – let’s call him Lord...

• Blogs

  The Continuity of Israel will not falter.

  (Memories of a Hong Kong Rabbi) by Rabbi Lee Diamond   “Since antiquity, people have been predicting the demise of the Jews,...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Answering the Call

    The early history of humanity as told in the Torah is a series of disappointments. God gives human beings freedom, which...