“Our historic obligation, today, is to raise ourselves from a people to a holy nation, from the covenant of Egypt to the covenant at Sinai…”
Our historic obligation, today, is to raise ourselves from a people to a holy...
Monthly Archives: April 2015
“Invariably, when a large donor makes a major investment in an area of activity, that investment attracts other dollars and corrals the energy of the entire community”
An older generation of donors tended to give to big institutions, which they counted...
“How can we speak of reverence for man and of the belief that all men are created equal without repenting the way we promote the vulgarization of existence?”
Survival, mere continuation of being, is a condition man has in common with animals....
“I’m baffled by couples who neglect having sex, especially younger ones…”
I’m baffled by couples who neglect having sex, especially younger ones. We all desire...
“Segments of Orthodoxy claim to engage in neo-hasidut but it is mostly relegated to surface-level singing and dancing…”
Segments of Orthodoxy claim to engage in neo-hasidut, but it is mostly relegated to...
“Much of Israel’s recent history is the gradual movement of Rabbi Maimon’s squiggle — and of other historical squiggles — from the margins of the founding Document, and the ethos it meant to enshrine, to the center”
God, to whom all pre-modern and even many modern Jews ascribed not only the...
“The deep sense of frustration many singles experience is compounded by a community that they feel judges and blames them”
Many singles experience a huge amount of pain and frustration as they struggle for...
“…for most of the Jewish public in Israel, Jewish identity…is a fundamental, central, and irreplaceable component in any worldview or aspiration for the future”
…unless there is a change of consciousness of Marxist proportions among the Israeli people,...
“Israel’s secular elites had quite deliberately estranged themselves from, and weaned their children off, their own Jewish cultural resources…”
Israel’s secular elites had quite deliberately estranged themselves from, and weaned their children off,...
“Middle Eastern states are imploding and exploding all around, and what is coming to replace them is, interestingly, not nationalism”
Regionally — we are, finally, witnessing the collapse of the nation state order put...