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Thursday, September 21st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Tevi Troy and Noam Wasserman First Things, Sept. 14, 2023 “Rabbi Shapiro had a bold vision for maintaining an ancient tradition and furthering Jewish unity at a time of international upheaval.” This Friday, September 15, marks Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. This year, however, Rosh Hashanah also marks the 100th anniversary of the […]
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Friday, August 25th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Daniel Goldman Jerusalem Post, Aug. 20, 2023 “In a recent survey of religious Zionist and traditional Israelis, a majority agreed that the government is actually alienating the population from its Jewish identity. While we can’t easily associate a specific policy decision or legislative proposal that has triggered this response, we do know from previous polls […]
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Friday, June 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
SHABBAT READING From Despair to Hope: Beha’alotecha . 5776 – 5783 – The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, Covenant & Conversation — There have been times when one passage in this week’s parsha was, for me, little less than lifesaving. No leadership position is easy. Leading Jews is harder still. And spiritual leadership can be hardest of […]
Dr. Nicole L. Tilford The Torah.com, Apr. 28, 2022 “Belief in the evil eye relies on a physiological understanding of the eye that is quite different from our own.” Walk into a traditional gift shop around the Mediterranean, and you might see a collection of brightly colored necklaces or keychains or pottery items with […]
Thursday, May 25th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Podcast: Jon Levenson on the Moral Force of the Book of Ruth: Jon Levenson and Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, June 3, 2022 — Beginning Saturday night [this year, Thur. night], the Jewish people will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot. During the festival, Jews traditionally study the book of Ruth, the biblical text that tells the story of […]
Eli Kavon Jerusalem Post, May 31, 2022 “The Sinaic revolution, by demanding a belief in one God, without form or shape, who was the sole creator of the universe, who willed the cosmos into existence and invested humanity with the power to choose to do good or evil, overturned the existing belief systems of great […]
Dr. Tzvi Novick The Torah.com, May 27, 2020 “What, ultimately, is the elemental glue that binds Israel into a people?” Mutual Covenantal Responsibility at Sinai The famous rabbinic dictum has it that כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה “all Israelites are guarantors one for the other,” or in other words, that each is responsible to “pay” […]
Shaul Magid Times of Israel, May 23, 2023 “As I understand Shagar, he is suggesting that revelation changes everything. But while Badiou suggested that the event changes everything by destroying what came before, Shagar suggests that what existed before the event is not destroyed, but transformed by it.” With the conclusion of Passover last […]
Elliot J. Cosgrove Sapir, Vol 3, Autumn 2021 “Mitzvot are the sacred shibboleths by which Jews build conscious community.” For a people as numerically modest as the Jews, we have more than our fair share of civic, cultural, and advocacy organizations in service of Jewish continuity. From historical societies to Holocaust memorials, […]
Friday, May 12th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
SHABBAT READING Family Feeling: Behar, Bechukotai, 5776, 5783: Covenant & Conversation, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — I argued in my Covenant and Conversation for parshat Kedoshim that Judaism is more than an ethnicity. It is a call to holiness. In one sense, however, there is an important ethnic dimension to Judaism. Have Religious Israeli Jews Given Up on Israel’s Secular Society? – […]
Ori Weisberg Unpacked, Apr. 25, 2023 “Everyone leaves his father’s home, everyone nearly sacrifices his child, deep within is a little Sodom that he wishes to erase already, and angels will rescue him.” Calling Israel a “Jewish State,” with nearly 75% of its population being Jewish, might suggest Israelis share a great deal in […]
Jeffrey Sacks Mosaic Magazine, Dec. 10, 2018 “[T]hough geographically the two cities [of Jaffa and Jerusalem] were only several hours apart by train, the journey between them was one between two worlds.” In 2006, a distinguished American Jewish essayist took the occasion of his 50th high-school reunion to reflect in Commentary on the decisions made a half-century […]
Moshe Taragin Jerusalem Post, Apr. 28, 2023 “Sadly, we are rapidly losing our common narrative.” Israeli society is currently entangled in a complex web of controversial issues. The core debate surrounds the future of Israeli democracy, judicial reform, and the issue of political checks and balances. This purely legal issue, however, has unleashed a racial […]
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