Jewish-Muslim dialogue begins with a simple question
On a rational basis, the fears of Islamic terrorism are justified. But much of our fear is based on ignorance of the “other,” because the level of dialogue between Muslims and Jews has been limited
Just what are we praying for?
Not only is it hard to focus on God or what we think of as the divine, but also it is problematic because we are not sure what prayer is supposed to accomplish
Killing everything Joseph embodied in his Godly life
Where are the voices of the faithful condemning the burning of Joseph’s Tomb as an affront to the Prophet Muhammad?
Can non-Jews achieve eternal bliss?
A discussion of the philosophies of Moses Mendelssohn and Maimonides
Shul speakers examine Jewish-Muslim relations
In a question-and-answer segment at Beth Tzedec Synagogue in Toronto, panellists were asked to address Jews’ fear of Muslims and Muslims’ fears of Jews
A modern (Jewish) family
A few years ago looking around the table at everyone settling into their seats at dinner to celebrate Pesach I remember thinking, “this is not at all how it was when I was growing up.”
Do we need a Jewish pope?
We pray for a utopian period led by a messianic figure, but Judaism has survived and thrived by expressing itself in multiple forms, without a single leader or uniform approach
Palestinian terror wave has Israel’s rabbis searching for spiritual solutions
Their pictures and their names are burned on our hearts—victims of terrorism whose final moments we can’t even imagine. It’s in precisely these times that the job of spiritual leaders is both most challenging and most needed.
Israeli students attacked with firebomb in Manhattan
NEW YORK — A firebomb was thrown at two Israeli yeshiva students in Midtown Manhattan in an incident being investigated as a hate crime.
The attack, which occurred on Friday, was reported in New York media on Sunday morning.
The students, both 19, are studying at a Brooklyn yeshiva for one year, and often visit Jewish-owned businesses in the area to call on people to perform mitzvahs, the New York Post reported, citing community leaders.
The students, one of whom only speaks Hebrew, were not injured.
Book shows a lesser-known side of this rosh yeshiva
Rabbi Yehuda Amital (1924-2010) was a compassionate, charismatic and occasionally controversial leader of the National Religious (or modern Orthodox) Jewish community in Israel.
A Holocaust survivor, he was liberated at the end of 1944. He moved to Israel right away and served in the Israeli army in the War of Independence. He pursued a career in Jewish education, and in 1968, became a founder and rosh yeshiva (head of school) of Yeshivat Har Etzion, one of the first institutions set up in the territories that Israel won in the Six Day War.
