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After 25 hours of fasting and intense prayer, Yom Kippur concludes with a profound declaration of faith and the sound of the shofar. We end the festival on a spiritual high and even seek to channel ...
Well before he died at only 57, Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg, better known by the acronym Shagar, had gained a certain notoriety, a contrarian sheen that set him apart from other National Religious ...
RAV SHAGAR was deeply concerned not only with religious service in the narrow sense, but also with interpersonal relationships on many levels. So much of his writing on repentance focuses upon the ...
Hundreds of young adults, easily recognizable as belonging to the Religious Zionist sector – pre-Army mechina, hesder, women's midrashot and university students, with anticipation in their eyes and ...
A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees looking ...
In his recent book Sacred Time (not to be confused with the subject of this review), Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik argued that “the Jewish calendar is a key that unlocks the very essence of Judaism.” By ...
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