With Blessings from Tel Hai
With Blessings from Tel Hai Our youth, this generation of victory that travels to Tel Hai and Biriya, expects more from us. Military victory is not enough. A sustainable military victory is not possible without settling the land. Tel Hai is the symbol of Zionist settlement in modern times. Through understanding that “Out of the […]
Let’s Just Listen
Let’s Just Listen Over the years, we have become used to shutting ourselves off to preserve the sanctity of our communities and the righteousness of our path. Shalom Weil asks in the simplest possible way – what if we let go of all that we deem correct — even for a moment — and simply […]
The Eye Looks Toward Zion
The Eye Looks Toward Zion Amidst the chaos, precisely watchful waiting and profound observation can bring about change – from the surveillance soldiers who were ignored to the legacy of Avraham and the prophetess Miriam. The return of the abductees each week awakens a renewed pain in all of us for what has happened and […]
A Knesset of Growth: What can we learn from Tu B’Shvat about our democracy?
A Knesset of Growth: What can we learn from Tu B’Shvat about our democracy? This year, in light of the war, the Knesset decided not to celebrate its birthday, which is marked every year on Tu B’Shvat | Dr. Noa Rachel Ben-David writes that we need not be afraid and that we should be grateful […]
The Broken Covenant: Does Someone Who Didn’t Serve in the Army Deserve to Influence the Fate of the Country?
The Broken Covenant: Does Someone Who Didn’t Serve in the Army Deserve to Influence the Fate of the Country? When one sector in a country only wants to receive and not give, it is the right or even the duty of the country to deny their right to influence and sit around the decision-making table. […]
The Equitable Landlord
The attitude of the Jewish state towards its non-Jewish citizens The Dilemma The question of the relationship of the Jewish democratic state to its non-Jewish minority citizens, is a difficult one for several reasons. First, the issue is complicated and complex, not only in the Jewish state, due to the tension between the civic-liberal concept […]
A Consciousness of Destruction
A Consciousness of Destruction History repeats itself. Just as Jerusalem and the First Temple were destroyed because no one wanted to believe Jeremiah’s prophecies of wrath, so did the Swords of Iron War erupt from the perception of force as the source of power. Preserving the consciousness of destruction is a redemptive act and is […]
Return to the Ethos of Mamlakhtiyut
This week marks 45 years since the death of David Ben-Gurion, the leader of the Jewish Yishuv in Israel during the period of the British Mandate, the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel, and the one who initiated and determined many of the political positions which form the basis of the State of […]
Parasha in Brief – Parashat Vayehi
-Tanya Regev The sound of the words: “He is one of us” can be heard from the written word as well. These are words spoken with pride, like the words connoting an exceptional athlete, a brilliant researcher, a talented broadcaster or an acclaimed writer – people who belong to a minority group and represent it […]
Israeli Educational Leadership Meets Representatives of American Jewry
By Adam Tasachi The first meeting of its kind between the heads of religious schools in the Jerusalem district and representatives of American Jewry – a joint initiative of Herzog College’s “Yesodot” program and the supervisor of secondary education in the National Religious educational stream in the Jerusalem District – was held this week Concern […]
Freedom of Slaves or Slavery of the Free
The enslavement in Egypt reminds us that we were once slaves. Resting on Shabbat reminds us that we are partners in freedom. The Seder night affords us the opportunity to experience both these elements together. The same is true of the Seder night this year, with its enslavement and its shackles. We do not go […]