Leadership

by admin | Apr 15, 2015

RZA Leadership President Stephen M. Flatow Stephen M. Flatow is a father of five whose then 20-year-old daughter, Alisa, died in April 1995 following an Iranian terrorist attack while she was a student in Israel. Alisa’s organs were donated for transplant. Since...

PRACTICE MAKES IMPERFECT By: Rabbi Moshe Lichtman

by admin | Aug 10, 2017 | American, American

Twice a day we recite the second paragraph of Kri’at Shema, taken from this week’s parashah.  By the age of twenty, we have said it well over 10,000 times!  If we have paid any attention to what we’ve been saying, we know that it talks about the blessings we will...

POINT OF VIEW: “Calling for an Internal Truce among Religious Zionists” By Zvulun Orlev

by admin | Jun 14, 2017 | Weekly Email

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...

THE ROOTS OF FAITH – Basic Tenets of Jewish Philosophy: “Reward and Punishment” By Rabbi Oury Cherki, Machon Meir, Rabbi of Beit Yehuda Congregation, Jerusalem

by admin | Jun 7, 2017 | Weekly Email

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...

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

by admin | May 24, 2017 | Weekly Email

“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...