All posts tagged "Torah"
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Hopes and Fears – Chayei Sarah
The simple answer is because they happened. That, however, cannot be all. We misunderstand Torah if we think of it...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Even Higher Than Angels
Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. It is one of the most famous scenes in the Bible. Abraham is sitting at the entrance to...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Hillel: “If I am not for myself, who will be? But if I am only for myself, what am I?”
The Jewish community could not exist for a day without its volunteers’ By Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi. Volunteering has been undervalued in...
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Guest Contributors
The Biblical Case for Limited Government
By Yoram Hazony This is a version of an essay that appeared in the October 2012 issue of First Things. The original...
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Blogs
Finding your Jewish identity in a secular world
The Chief Rabbi recently spoke at the Hillel at the University of Pennsylvania on the subject of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Blogs
RE-EMERGING: The Jews of Nigeria
By Jeff Lieberman THE IGBO: JEWS OF NIGERIA? Several years ago, the Internet was...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Blogs
Jewish state needs a Yavneh for our time
Israeli college students (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90) The Jewish state needs a Yavneh for our time – a great academy filled with...
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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...
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Steve
Sukkot – Hu Yivarech – A Song for the IDF Soldiers
Hu Yivarech – A Song for the IDF Soldiers, By DOV. As they defend the rights of the Jewish people within...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Steve's Blog:It's Personal
How is it possible – Here I am
By Steve Ornstein. I have thought numerous times about what to say about the New Year. Truth be told it has been...
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