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...
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 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...
Feb 17, 2019 11 min Brilliance of the Baal Shem Tov Two hundred and fifty years after the Baal Shem Tov’s death, English readers finally have a scholarly compilation of some of his most...
Feb 14, 2019 8 min The Art of Living How Ethiopian Israelis became Masters of Living on Less There is an art to living on 2500 shekels a month, and many within the Ethiopian...
Feb 14, 2019 13 min Yamima Avital: First Jewish Woman Mystic with her Own Written Torah Punch Yamima Avital's name into a (Hebrew) Internet search engine and you will find forums with endless exchanges of information about...
Feb 12, 2019 17 min Cave of the Patriarchs The Cave Below the earth's surface, where it is cool, damp and deep, a great light—a blinding light--is waiting, wrapped in darkness....
Feb 6, 2019 12 min Jerusalem Still Burning The sheer possibilities of the Global South attracted me - as Israel's had eighteen years ago. In Kathmandu last summer, those two loves...
