Posts Tagged: judaism
Looking to the Past for Lessons on How to Live Today (REVIEW)
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ latest book, Not In God’s Name, deals with the literal and figurative meaning of the commandment, “Do not take the Lord’s name on vain.”...
If God Is Just, Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
In majestic language, Moses breaks into song, investing his final testament to the Israelites with all the power and passion at his command. He begins...
Fear of Inter-Religious Tension as Jewish and Muslim High Holidays Coincide This Year
The Jewish High Holiday of Yom Kippur and the Muslim feast of Eid Al-Adha are set to fall this year on the same Gregorian (or...
Religious Zionist and Muslim Leaders Join for Solidarity Meet After Duma Attack Kills Palestinian Infant
Notable heads of the religious Zionist and Muslim communities in Israel gathered on Monday at the Sheba Medical Center to visit those wounded when a...
Jerusalem Teens Who Urinated On ‘Little Western Wall’ Will Not Face Punishment
Two Arab youths from Jerusalem's Old City who urinated on a section of the Western Wall last January will not be held liable for desecrating a...
Saudi Reporter Says He Wants to be Country’s Ambassador to Israel
A Saudi Arabian journalist has expressed his desire to be appointed in the future as his country's Ambassador to Israel, NRG news reported on Monday. "I want...
French Islamist Group Goes On Trial After Authorities Find Jewish Target List, Nuclear Bomb Manual
Fourteen members of Forsane Alizza, a banned French Islamist group, went on trial on Monday facing terrorism charges after a list containing Jewish targets was...
More Than One Million People Recite ‘Shema Yisrael’ Simultaneously
On Sunday evening, at approximately 9:30 p.m. Jerusalem time, more than one million Jews, in Israel and across the world, simultaneously recited the Shema Yisrael...
Jewish Man Shoots Bartender for Serving Non-Kosher Clamato
A Jewish man shot and injured a bartender in Montana on Saturday after the latter served him a drink containing a non-kosher ingredient, the Associated Press...
What Makes Us Human? It’s Time for a Conversation
My eye was caught yesterday by a photo of a charming Chinese lady known to her friends as Yangyang. She has long hair, a fetching...
Burying a Friend Younger Than Me
Today I buried a man who had everything to live for. He was youthful and handsome with a beautiful young family. He came from prosperity...
Followership
There is a fascinating sequence of commands in the great "holiness code" with which our parsha begins, that sheds light on the nature not just...
Actress Natalie Portman Tired of Being Typecast as ‘Soulful Jewess’
Jerusalem-born American actress Natalie Portman is tired of being typecast as "The Soulful Jewess" she revealed, in a an interview with Marie Claire Magazine. "Like, every...
The History of Judaism: An Undivided People
There are several words used in the Bible to describe the Jewish people. At one stage, we were simply tribal. Then we became an "Am,"...
