Download Weekly Study Materials Pirke Avot Chapter 2, Siman 5 . . . וּבְמָקוֹם שֶׁאֵין אֲנָשִׁים, הִשְׁתַּדֵּל לִהְיוֹת אִיש: In a place where there is no man, strive to be a man . . . in Yiddish: 'zai a mensch' in a place where no one is . . . In a world devoid of humanity, Israel as a … [Read more...]

Download Weekly Study Materials There is nothing new coming from many political and 'religious' quarters of the world, all claiming Israel as racist and further pushing forward the claim of Israel as an apartheid state. I think our ancestor Ruth would find that to be simply incredulous. We have … [Read more...]

Download Weekly Study Materials Not 80 years have gone by since an attempt at an almost full destruction of the Jewish people -- and yet both in Israel and abroad, there have arisen an outpouring of new expressions of Jewish culture, all of which are emerging from what one might describe as from … [Read more...]

Download Weekly Study Materials The Israeli Independence Day (יום העצמאות,Yom Ha'atzmaut) --Jewish Miracle or Jewish Blasphemy The Israeli Independence Day (יום העצמאות, Yom Ha'atzmaut) is a day commemorating the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. It is 'marked' by official and … [Read more...]