Teshuvah, the belief and the mandate that we really can and must change… demands hard internal work because teshuvah requires good decision-making. The poet Robert Browning once bemoaned the difficulty of making decisions: “Life’s business being just the terrible choice.”
The things that horrified the prophets are even now daily occurrences all over the world. There is no society to which Amos’ words [Amos 8:4-6] would not apply. Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the
The Nazi regime showed the world the monstrous capacities within the human heart, realities about the human nature from which we are still recoiling in horror. The men and women who defied them show us that love and honor, courage
‘THE JEWISH GOSPELS – The Story of the Jewish Christ’ by Daniel Boyarin Review by Keren Hannah Some Contextual Background We find ourselves in an unprecedented time in the arena of theology; of religious beliefs and their application – and
THE FAMILY TREASURY OF JEWISH HOLIDAYS by Malka Drucker illustrated by Nancy Patz Many years ago in a place that seems so very far away — in a place and time void of personal computers and the World Wide Web
“One of Judaism’s most distinctive and challenging ideas is its ethics of responsibility, the idea that G-d invites us to become, in the rabbinic phrase, His ‘partners in the work of creation’.The G-d who created the world in love calls
An old Jewish teaching compares the tongue to an arrow. “Why not another weapon, a sword, for example?” one rabbi asks. “Because,” he is told, “if a man unsheathes his sword to kill his friend, and his friend pleads with
“I couldn’t help writing on Jesus. Since I first met Him, He has held my mind and heart…. I floundered a bit, at first; I was seeking that something for which so many of us search–that surety, that faith, that
The mountains of Israel comprise the heart of the Land promised by God to the children of Israel. They are Judea and Samaria, originally the inheritance of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Joseph. Bethel, Ai, Shilo, and Shechem -made famous
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither. *1  ISRAEL AN ECHO OF ETERNITY by Abraham Joshua Heschel For a non-Jew it can be hard to fully understand the inviolable link that binds Jews all over
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. ” [1]  Being God’s Partner How to Find the Hidden Link Between Spirituality and Your Work by Jeffrey K. Salkin
As an historian of antisemitism looks back over the millennia of horrors he has recorded, an inescapable conclusion emerges: Antisemitism is the longest and deepest hate of human history. [1]  THE ANGUISH OF THE JEWS Twenty-Three Centuries Of Antisemitism
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