We are faced with a religious leadership that is largely indifferent to the economic gaps that have opened up in Israel, or the...

Yitz Greenberg, 73 years old, is arguably the most important rabbi that American Jewry has yet produced, and the most profoundly American...

Shlomo’s Torah transported listeners emotionally and imaginatively, connecting them to inner states of longing and healing — to a...

Chabad Messianists, the Rebbe, and the Future of Judaism On April 9 this year, some four thousand men and women crammed into Yad Eliyahu,...

Eritreans in Israel claim they are refugees from a murderous regime. In their thousands, they have braved Sudan and the Sinai desert in...

Two hundred and fifty years after the Baal Shem Tov’s death, English readers finally have a scholarly compilation of some of his most...

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...

Punch Yamima Avital's name into a (Hebrew) Internet search engine and you will find forums with endless exchanges of information about...

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....

The sheer possibilities of the Global South attracted me - as Israel's had eighteen years ago. In Kathmandu last summer, those two loves...

https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-zionist-dream-awaits-a-peoplehood-vision/ Eleven years ago, I created Tevel b’Tzedek, an Israeli...

http://www1.jafi.org.il/papers/1999/july/jrjuly5.htm (July 5,1999) A year after Israel pledged to rescue them, Quara’s Jews wait. Hungry,...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-open-letter-to-shimon-peres/ Accepting a lavish Bank Hapoalim salary revealed a shocking disconnect...

A mystical figure with a hippie past, Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi is the moving force behind the Jewish Renewal movement, which blends...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/13/family-ties/ Mishpacha, Jerusalem In this age of satellite television and the Internet, it’s rare...

https://www.haaretz.com/1.4901705 For 200 years, a mysterious manuscript dictated by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav to his two closest...

https://www.haaretz.com/1.4908605 "Dreams are very important," says Chaim Avraham, a deceptively slight 33-year-old immigrant from...

https://www.haaretz.com/1.4716401 Why has acceptance into the overcrowded, anti-Zionist Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem become the dream of...

http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/kabbalah-worldwide/haaretz#.XFLoGs8zauW Despite his powerful fusion of mysticism and social ideas, Rabbi...