Posts Tagged: Parsha
Is God Protecting Us?
JNS.org - It’s been a tumultuous, emotional roller coaster of a week in Israel and around the Jewish world: Memorials, moments of silence and then...
Origins of Orthodoxy
I have just read Jacob Katz: On the Origins of Orthodoxy. It is an important collection of articles by and about the late Professor Katz, transcripts of...
The Best Cure for Defiance
The nineteenth-century humanitarian iconoclast, Clarissa “Clara” Harlowe Barton (1821-1912), is best remembered for providing much-needed supplies to the Union Army during the American Civil War following which she founded...
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...
Israel: Not Reckoned Among the Nations
The year is 1933. Two Jews are sitting in a Viennese coffee house, reading the news. One is reading the local Jewish paper, the other...
