“It is as an individual that I am moved by an anxiety for the meaning of my existence as a Jew”
It is as an individual that I am moved by an anxiety for the...
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“A sense of contact with the ultimate dawns upon most people when their self-reliance is swept away by violent misery”
What I have learned from Jewish life is that if a man is not...
“Relieving or at least coming to terms with the civil inequality of the Jews was central to the new meaning of statehood in modernity…”
Relieving or at least coming to terms with the civil inequality of the Jews...
“…Armenians and Jews have much in common: small nations with long memories of past glory; centuries of living as minorities among Muslims…”
The accusation of self-hatred has long been used by Jews against other Jews; those...
“We are ingenious in fund-raising, which is good; we are shipwrecked in raising our children, which is tragic”
We are ingenious in fund-raising, which is good; we are shipwrecked in raising our...
“…directly confronting difficult or discomfiting halakhic opinions, whether tending to the conservative or the liberal side, can have a positive effect…”
Some writers tend to downplay the existence of stringent or seemingly unenlightened opinions on...
“It is our duty to do our utmost in restoring physical health, but it is sinful to ignore the most essential requirement of being a person…”
We care for the mentally retarded; what about the spiritually retarded? We extend relief...
“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...
“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....
“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...