Hizballah’s Religious Cleansing of Lebanon, and How Loosening Sanctions on Iran Will Make It Worse
Building a safe haven, training ground, and university for the terrorists of tomorrow.
January 31, 2022
One of America’s Most Prominent Reform Rabbis Is Taking a Stand for Zionism and for Judaism’s Religious Core
There’s no contradiction between prophetic values and peoplehood.
As the rabbi of Manhattan’s Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, one of Reform Judaism’s most prestigious institutions, Ammiel Hirsch has become an increasingly outspoken advocate of Zionism, Jewish peoplehood, and the notion that without rich Jewish religious content, Judaism will not endure. During the most recent Gaza war, he attracted attention when he condemned in no uncertain terms a letter from Reform rabbinical students expressing much handwringing over Israel’s supposed crimes, while making no mention of Israelis who had been stabbed or shot by terrorists, or were spending nights in rocket shelters with their families. Armin Rosen writes in a profile of Hirsch:
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British Islam at a Crossroads
And the Hungarian Jew who helped found England’s first mosque.
One of America’s Most Prominent Reform Rabbis Is Taking a Stand for Zionism and for Judaism’s Religious Core
There’s no contradiction between prophetic values and peoplehood.
From the Depths of a Death Camp, Relics of Jewish Faith
Sh’ma pendants from Sobibor.
The Problem of Writing about Prayer
“I often feel great disjunction between my own experience of prayer and what many people say about it.”