Empire
byBabylon, Persia, Greece and Rome One displaced me from my home. One proposed to axe my head Another burned my books instead. The fourth…
Survival Zionism V
byWhile US Jewish leaders feared to demand that FDR rescue their people in Europe, Hillel Kook & the Bergson Group took a more activist approach.
The Will of a Flower
byA flower does not bloom by your will It does not open to your voice, your hand your brute imposition of untimely request and…
Understanding Today’s Diaspora Jew with Zachary Schaffer
byCan resolving the contradictions between Jewish particularism & universalism attract more US Jews to become participants in their people’s story?
A Portrait of American Jewry, circa 1974
byJewish communities in the United States underwent drastic cultural & political shifts during the 1970s.
Reflections on the Bikkurim
byThe Bikkurim help us to transcend our individual identities so we can perceive & experience ourselves as part of a greater Israelite collective.
Noon, the Sixth Day
byYou ask me to paint the future How? The canvas isn’t cut The sun is yet to set And I’m still mixing colors
Survival Zionism IV
byAs German plans to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto became clear, why was survival not enough to unite the various Jewish resistance movements?
Our Torah’s Most Challenging Topics
byExploring some of the scarier areas of Israel’s Torah might help us to find unexpected solutions to some of our generation’s most formidable challenges.
Night Journey
byOne night I walked twelve miles the sergeant told us ‘take this time to think about important things’ I can’t remember what I thought…
Survival Zionism III
byWas the Zionist movement responsible to rescue ‘Jewish people’ or to save ‘THE Jewish people’?
Rav Kook, ‘Religious Zionism’ & Diaspora Jews with Hart Levine
byIs it time for Rav Kook’s revolutionary Torah to penetrate into Diaspora Jewish communities?