admin | February 14, 2020
From when does one read the shma in the evening?Opening words, Mishnah and Talmud Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One. This simple sentence in the Hebrew Bible, known by its first word as the shma (hear), is also the first subject addressed in the Talmud and the first biblical verse taught to Jewish children
admin | February 14, 2020
After having fought them for years, now religious Zionist rabbis glorify learned women like Professor Vered Noam and hold them up as a shining example The welcome and well-deserved awarding of the Israel Prize in Talmud Studies to Noam is another stamp of approval for the success of the religious feminist movement, and a moment of triumph for liberalism in Israel.
admin | February 14, 2020
Writer answers defenses of presidents behavior Id like to address some issues Dave Alston raised in his recent letter. I spoke to Christianity because they are the majority in this county
admin | February 14, 2020
Last week, on February 3, George Steiner, literary critic, author, and philosopher passed away at the age of 90.
admin | February 14, 2020
"The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts," by Karen Armstrong. Bodley Head/Penguin/Random House, 549 pages. $35
admin | February 14, 2020
Immediately preceding the giving of the Ten Commandments, the Jewish people are instructed to set boundaries around the mountain with a warning that read: Beware of ascending the mountain or touching its edge. After three days of preparation, Moses is summoned to the peak of the mountain and God tells him to warn the people not to come up the mountain. Moses suggests it is not necessary to repeat the warning, but God insists that theyre warned a second time
admin | February 14, 2020
Bill Hamblin and I published the column below back in the early 2000s.
admin | February 14, 2020
Photo Credit: Jewish Press Some have questioned our columns implication two weeks ago that the previous Lubavitcher Rebbes arrival here in 1940 saved Yiddishkeit in America. America then was not a spiritual wasteland, they maintain, pointing to several prominent long-existing yeshivos, many Orthodox shuls, kashrus supervision agencies, and notable personalities who had painstakingly invested great efforts in building Torah schools and organizations before the Rebbe Rayatzs arrival.
admin | February 14, 2020
Yeshua (Jesus) may have walked on her waters, but Israelis are jumping up and down for joy as the Sea of Galilee finally fills up. For a long time, the precious water levels have receded to dangerous lows due to lack of rainfall, turning the freshwater sea into a wretched saltwater lake.
admin | February 14, 2020
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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