![Reuters]() Validation from non-JewsIt has always been that the Jewish people craved validation from the outside world for principles and beliefs that we know to be valid and correct but with which we feel uncomfortable unless others are willing to agree with us on these matters., 1/27/2019, 9:04 AM
![Flash 90]() Food from heavenIn spite of it being an obvious gift directly from heaven, or perhaps ironically, because it was such an obvious gift from heaven, the Jewish people tended to grumble about it. Why?
, 1/22/2019, 7:59 AM
![Flash 90]() The loss of a beloved spouseThe past doesn't leave us, but it is those who look towards the future who continue to lead fruitful lives., 11/7/2018, 8:37 AM
![iStock]() Life lessons from the story of CreationThe narrative contained in this week’s beginning portion of the Torah is not only a story of the past, but it is just as importantly a description of our present world and society, 10/5/2018, 2:29 PM
![צילום: ISTOCK]() Feeling at home in the SukkahThe rabbis always felt that a shack in Jerusalem was worthier and more protective than a great palace elsewhere., 9/27/2018, 7:46 AM
![iStock]() Standing strong and resilientHow is it that the Jewish people, not numerous and for the most of its history, powerless and stateless, has somehow been able to survive and even thrive?, 9/6/2018, 9:58 AM
![Bentzi Sasson]() Looking forwardRemembering past troubles and tragedies never completely inhibited us from looking forward., 8/14/2018, 4:47 AM
![Reuters]() After the fastAfter the fast day of mourning on the ninth day of Av come seven weeks of resilience and rehabilitation. , 7/22/2018, 9:11 PM
![Nati Shohat/Flash 90]() We cannot choose how we will be rememberedOften in human experience, individuals, even if they live long and productive lives with many different experiences and accomplishments, are nevertheless remembered and always associated with one individual situation and life altering decision., 7/6/2018, 2:34 PM
![Rivkah Rybak]() This three-week periodToday's State of Israel is a product of this three-week period, yet there are those who say we should cease mourning the Temple now that we have our own sovereignty. They are misguided., 7/4/2018, 8:02 AM
![Thinkstock]() Moses' angerMoshe was subject to becoming angry at certain occasions during his 40-year leadership of the Jewish people. Which?, 6/14/2018, 12:26 PM
![Photo: Jonathan Zindel / Flash 90]() Hot summersRabbi Yisrael Lipkin of Salant said that all luxuries eventually become necessities, and this certainly has proven to be the case regarding air conditioning here in Israel., 5/29/2018, 2:56 PM
![Micah Bond/Flash 90]() Nasso: Repetition, repetitionThe repetition of the same identical gifts that each of the 12 elders of the tribes of Israel donated to the Tabernacle is there to teach us something., 5/24/2018, 7:55 AM
![iStock]() Ever youngWe are an ever-young people whose past is ever present and that is how we are privileged to celebrate 70 years of our own country's independence., 4/19/2018, 9:58 AM
![Flash 90]() Psychological and mental healingThe connection between the outside world, human physiology and psychology is one whose mechanics we do not understand, but whose effects and therapies can be measured., 4/11/2018, 6:49 PM
![Flash 90]() Having the Seder at home It is no exaggeration to say that the Jewish world is founded on the night of the Pesach Seder., 3/21/2018, 4:24 PM
![Bentzi Sasson]() God calls out to usIt is the still small voice that is heard that rings in our mind and pricks our conscience., 3/14/2018, 9:10 PM
![צילום: פלאש 90]() The logic behind Sabbath prohibitions :Vayakhel-Pikudeiif the Jewish people were prohibited from building and constructing the Mishkan/Tabernacle on Shabbat then why were they allowed and in fact commanded to operate and conduct the sacrificial service in that building on Shabbat? , 3/7/2018, 6:27 PM
![Miriam Alster/Flash90]() We are not the CrusadersOur enemies are deluded by recollections of the Crusades, where after centuries, the Christian invaders were forced to relinquish their power and territory in the Middle East. , 2/15/2018, 11:00 PM
![Flash 90]() Lending money to a fellow JewLending money to others and helping them to extricate themselves from otherwise burdensome circumstances is a positive commandment of the Torah, but it sets out the rules.
, 2/12/2018, 12:38 PM
![iStock]() European countries say "not me"The late Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzchak Shamir, once said that anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe is placed into the population with its mother’s milk., 2/8/2018, 12:08 PM
![Flash 90]() For Tu Bishvat: Israel's agricultural blessingsThe infamous Peel Commission issued its learned conclusions in 1936 stating that the entire land of Israel – then Palestine under British mandate – could not support a population greater than 2 1/2 million souls. And now...
, 1/30/2018, 7:13 PM
![Flash 90]() Democracy is messyThe old religious – secular bugaboo has reared its head once more and as usual harsh and unnecessary invective is being employed by all sides of this debate.
, 1/25/2018, 3:21 PM
![Istock]() O! JerusalemIt is not so much that the world wants Jerusalem – after all it was a wasteland and backwater location for many centuries whether under Christian or Moslem rule – it is simply that the world does not want the Jews to have Jerusalem. , 12/26/2017, 4:50 PM
![פלאש 90]() PassingsEvery generation has special people that affect the lives of many of their contemporaries as well as the lives of later generations. G-d deals them out sparingly, but there is always at least one., 12/19/2017, 5:43 PM
![Thinkstock]() The UN and IsraelIt helped create Israel but has attempted numerous times to destroy it as well, while the Muslim world would have solved the 'refugee' problem had the UN not helped perpetuate it., 12/5/2017, 11:46 AM
![Photo: Shavei Shomron yeshiva]() ConfrontationsDeep down in the hearts of all concerned, there is the fear that the last chapter in this struggle has not yet been written. , 12/1/2017, 11:55 AM
![Flash90]() US Jewish leaders are fighting the wrong battleAmerican Jews may know that somehow they are the people of the book but they don't know what book is being referred to. There is little hope for their eventual survival as a vital part of the Jewish people., 11/28/2017, 2:42 PM
![Mark Neiman/GPO]() People of the tentsJewish existence as a reminder of spiritually and decency., 11/24/2017, 1:00 PM
![Flash 90]() Balancing today's norms Extremism rarely if ever results in the sanctification of God’s name in the world. , 11/22/2017, 3:35 PM
![Flash 90]() The wreckage of empty wellsWe have always longed to be fresh, new and different than our ancestors. And we have paid dearly for it., 11/18/2017, 10:35 PM
![Kobi Gideon/GPO]() A century of BalfourThe Balfour Declaration was an emotional impetus to the idea that the exile of Israel could and would diminish and end., 11/11/2017, 10:16 PM
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