Freedom, climate change and the Pandemic
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” So begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book “The Social Contract.” I’ve been thinking...
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- Dec 19, 2019
- 5 min
Language, Prayer, Compassion, Interpretation
Happy Chanuka! What follows are some words of Torah that I offered on Saturday night in honor of the 25th anniversary of the passing of...
- Dec 5, 2019
- 4 min
Netanyahu Blames everyone but himself
One well-known example of “chutzpah” is someone who murders his parents, then pleads for mercy from the court because he is an orphan....
- Sep 1, 2019
- 14 min
The Great Fake
Imagine a shiny Cadillac pulls up to your house and a guy in a fancy suit, smelling of cologne, knocks on your door. “Just sign this,” he...
- May 11, 2019
- 3 min
Lurking within is the Holy Urge
Parshat Toldot 1 F WE COULD X-RAY OUR HEARTS — NOT THE fist-sized muscle, but the pulsating center from which our dreams and desires...
- May 11, 2019
- 3 min
a SLOW bURNING eXPLOSION LIKE THE sUN
Parshat Shmot SOMETIMES, THINGS GET WORSE before they get better. Sometimes, things get worse even as they are getting better— as...
- May 11, 2019
- 3 min
War Damage
Parshat Naso Who fought the first religious war? The answer, according to Genesis, is Cain and Abel: "Cain brought an offering to the...
- May 11, 2019
- 4 min
gATEWAY OF THE pERSECUTED
Parshat Vayetze Jacob, escaping his murderously angry brother, more or less stumbles unto "the gates of heaven," described laconically in...
- May 6, 2019
- 7 min
Power to the People
Torah' for Israel's Jubilee May 1998 (first published Jerusalem Report) For 50 years, Israelis have allowed the state to shape their...
- Apr 29, 2019
- 4 min
Jewish Intimacy: Nitzavim VaYelech
Losing God and Finding Him is Part of What it Means to be a Jew GOOD NEWS: WE ARE NOT THE FIRST generation to be fraught with alarm over...
- Apr 4, 2019
- 1 min
parshat hashavua
this is about the Torah portion of the week So here will be all kinds of writings from the Torah portion of the week.
- Mar 27, 2019
- 3 min
Return to the Garden of Eden
Paashat Shlach Lecha. Originally published in "The People and the Book", Jerusalem Report, June 15 1995. The unfinished story of the...
- Mar 26, 2019
- 17 min
Masters of the Universe
Israel's economic planners have fallen under the sway of the International Monetary Fund, and are hypnotized by the Credit Rating...
- Mar 25, 2019
- 10 min
Why Has Social Justice been Written out of the Torah?
We are faced with a religious leadership that is largely indifferent to the economic gaps that have opened up in Israel, or the...
- Mar 17, 2019
- 16 min
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg: Profundity and Courage
Yitz Greenberg, 73 years old, is arguably the most important rabbi that American Jewry has yet produced, and the most profoundly American...
- Mar 7, 2019
- 11 min
Inside Out
In the past, those figures who most represented the Jewish people’s universalistic thrust, such as the Pauline Jesus and Marx, soundly...
- Feb 28, 2019
- 15 min
Shlomo's Torah
Shlomo’s Torah transported listeners emotionally and imaginatively, connecting them to inner states of longing and healing — to a...
- Feb 28, 2019
- 13 min
Messiah Now
Chabad Messianists, the Rebbe, and the Future of Judaism On April 9 this year, some four thousand men and women crammed into Yad Eliyahu,...
- Feb 27, 2019
- 10 min
יד לא נעלמה
ברדיפה אחרי כסף וכוח הולכים ומשתלטים כמה תאגידי ענק על משאבי הטבע והכלכלה של העולם כולו. התהליך, אשר גורם להרס חייהם ותרבותם של מאות...
- Feb 25, 2019
- 14 min
The Brutal Regime Across the Red Sea
Eritreans in Israel claim they are refugees from a murderous regime. In their thousands, they have braved Sudan and the Sinai desert in...
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- May 10, 2020
- 7 min
Freedom, climate change and the Pandemic
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” So begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book “The Social Contract.” I’ve been thinking...
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- Dec 19, 2019
- 5 min
Language, Prayer, Compassion, Interpretation
Happy Chanuka! What follows are some words of Torah that I offered on Saturday night in honor of the 25th anniversary of the passing of...
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