POINT OF VIEW: “Calling for an Internal Truce among Religious Zionists” By Zvulun Orlev
Lost Energy It is natural for us, as individuals and as a sector, to take care first of our own worries and then those of others. We have shown that we know how to struggle for our rights as religious Zionists in all walks of life. As long as the span of...
AS SHABBAT APPROACHES: “Open, Closed, and Open” By Esti Rosenberg, Head of the Midrasha for Women, Migdal Oz
Twice a day those who serve G-d accept His sovereignty, remember the Exodus from Egypt, and declare their unique love for G-d. A close look at the passage of the Shema will reveal another important principle that can be found peeping out from among the cracks of the...
STRAIGHT TALK: “Children are not the Bridge” By Rabbi Yoni Lavie, Manager, “Chaverim Makshivim” Website
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” Alice asked. “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where –” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. - Lewis Carroll,...
WHEN THE CHILDREN OPEN THEIR HEARTS: “Sit Quietly and Listen” By Meirav Maggeni, Author of Content and Stories in Chemed, the Religious School System
Our teacher Miri said to me in a stern voice, “If you talk one more time without permission, I will have to ask you to leave the room.” Miri is our new history teacher. What do you think? Did I manage to hold back? Right you are, there was no way for me to stop...
THE ROOTS OF FAITH – Basic Tenets of Jewish Philosophy: “Reward and Punishment” By Rabbi Oury Cherki, Machon Meir, Rabbi of Beit Yehuda Congregation, Jerusalem
Can our relationship with the Creator be compared to a grocery accounts list connected to a mechanism for collecting debts? The entire system of reward and punishment in the Torah, which Rabbi Yosef Elbo sees as one of the three principle foundations of Judaism (see...
ZIONIST CHASSIDISM: “A War in Your Land” By Rabbi Rafi Ostroff, Head of the Religious Council of Gush Etzion
The following Torah insights were delivered by the Rebbe of Husiatyn in 5708 (1948), about one month after the State of Israel was established, in the midst of the War of Independence. Because of the distress of the war, the Rebbe begins his words about the...
POINT OF VIEW: “The Disgraceful National Conversion Law” By Rabbi Yisrael Rozen, Dean of the Zomet Institute
“And Moshe said to Chovav (his father-in-law Yitro, who converted to Judaism)... go with us and we will do good for you... And it will be, that whatever good G-d does for us we will do for you.” [Bamidbar 10:29,32]. A Scandalous Proposal by the Minister of...
AS SHABBAT APPROACHES: “As a Child Runs Away from School” By Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg, Rosh Yeshiva, Kerem B’Yavne
“‘And they journeyed from the Mountain of G-d’... He would give them mitzvot every day. When Moshe told them to move from there on a journey for one day they went on a journey for three days and one night, like a child who leaves school and runs away” [Torah Sheleima,...
STRAIGHT TALK: How Many Legitimate Ways are there to Study Torah? – by Rabbi Yoni Lavie, Manager, “Chaverim Makshivim” Website
“Who is Allowed to Study Torah?” At first glance, the above question might seem to be strange, and with a clear answer – Everybody can and should study Torah, and become intimately linked to it! “The crown of Torah rests and waits for all of Yisrael to pick it up.”...
WHEN THE CHILDREN OPEN THEIR HEARTS: About the Miracles and the Wonders – by Meirav Maggeni, Author of Content and Stories in Chemed, the Religious School System
“In our generation, miracles don’t happen to us, like what happened in past generations,” I said to my Sabba, as we went together in a happy dance of flags in Jerusalem. And then I immediately clarified: “I mean such miracles as the vial of oil on Chanukah and the...