Posts Tagged: judaism
My Search for and Momentary Loss of God
I believe I've had some of my spiritual personality since I was a youngster. There was always a dimension of amazement and mystery that accompanied...
British Jews With Higher Academic Degrees Less Likely to Engage With Jewish Community, Be Attached to Israel, New Study Finds
Highly-educated British Jews are less likely to be engaged with the Jewish community and committed to its preservation, and more likely to take a critical...
Judaism Needs Big Ideas and to Challenge the Orthodoxy
It is time to start thinking big about Judaism. Great opportunities are awaiting us, and too much is at stake to let them pass by....
The Curse of Religious Boredom
"Man is the only animal that can be bored." -- Erich Fromm Psychologists tell us that one of man's greatest enemies today is boredom. Sometimes, when...
Conversion Is Not About Halachah
Is conversion at all possible? This may sound like a rhetorical question, since the answer is in the affirmative. Yet, this question goes to the...
Millions of Jews Worldwide Pause to Observe Yom Kippur
JNS.org – The holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, was set to commence at sunset on Tuesday. It’s a time when Israel come...
The Fruits of the Past, Present, and Future
As I searched for real-world meanings in this week’s Torah reading of Ki Seitze -- which deals with Jews going to war against their enemies -- and the following...
The Meaning of Words
Languages are amazingly varied and flexible despite all academic attempts to reduce them to simple formulas. We have always struggled to explain why almost every...
It’s Hard to Raise Jewish Children in an Anti-Israel World
As Dennis Prager has said many times, parents who defend Israel and proudly identify as Jews should be wary of sending their children to many...
Twelve Trapped Soccer Players, Moses, and the Cities of Refuge
Perfection has a way of grabbing our attention: A Triple Crown. A 4.0 grade point average. An undefeated season. And, this week, the inspiring, odds-defying...
The Search for God: The Greatness and the Present Setback of Halachic Living
There is little doubt that Halacha greatly complicates life for the religious Jew. There is no other religion that requires so much dedication and includes...
The Struggle for the Jewish Soul
Last week, I wrote about the vast divide between communities of Jews totally at odds religiously and politically. But there is another divide much closer to...
The Legacy of the Rebbe: We Must Never Give Up on Any Jew
JNS.org - The Chabad-Lubavitch movement has been in the news recently due to a video clip of people laying tefillin at an airport. I would like to discuss...
The Legacy of Judah Halevi
Judah Halevi is one of my all-time favorite Jews. Born in Toledo, Spain in 1075, he had a traditional Torah and Talmudic education. He was...
