A controversial new book, The Invention of the Jewish People, by Tel Aviv University historian Shlomo Sand, is now in English, after kicking up a dust storm of controversy in its original Hebrew incarnation. This is a summary of the book’s thesis, as explained in a recent review on Tablet, an online Jewish cultural magazine:
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Comments on the news of the day: Jewish peoplehood, for one thing
Posted in History, Holidays/Festivals, holidays, israel, tagged Education, History, israel, jewish, Jewish-people, nation, people, peoplehood, sinai on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Melilah Hellner-Eshed: Ways of remembering Sinai – Part 2
Posted in Holidays/Festivals, Videos, israel, jewish, lectures, torah, חגים, לימוד, tagged bereishit, genesis, jewish, Jewish-people, moses, mysticism, revelation, sinai, torah on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shalom Hartman Institute Fellow and Scholar Melilah Hellner-Eshed talks about how to remember the event at Sinai in which the Jewish people received the Torah, and what is Jewish memory, the how the transmission of the collective Jewish memory was through ritual and reciting. This is the second in a series of three classes given [...]
Get ready to receive, study Torah
Posted in Hartman Institute, Holidays/Festivals, jewish, torah, חגים, לימוד, tagged educate, learn, love, read, shavuot, sinai, stody, torah, worship on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi tells us how and why to make Torah study relevant and useful in our lives today in this great essay:
We must strive to establish the Torah for ourselves, our families and our communities as a vital, dynamic text – as relevant to our lives today as it was 2,000 years ago. [...]
Some rabbinic thoughts on next week’s US presidential election
Posted in Diaspora, Education, History, tagged Democrat, election, GOP, israelites, Kennedy, McCain, November, Obama, president, Republican, RFK, sinai, wilderness on October 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We mentioned Rabbi Sam Gordon’s involvement with the “Rabbis for Obama” group in a recent post. Here is an adaptation of a sermon he gave last summer in which he brings together the Israelites’ 40 years in the wilderness with the 40 years between the death of Robert F. Kennedy and the nomination of Barack [...]
Melilah Hellner-Eshed: Ways of remembering Sinai
Posted in History, Videos, israel, tagged Halakha, israelites, jewish, judaism, mysticism, revelation, sinai, tanakh, torah on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shalom Hartman Institute Fellow and Scholar Melilah Hellner-Eshed talks about how to remember the event at Sinai in which the Jewish people received the Torah, and what is Jewish memory, the how the transmission of the collective Jewish memory was through ritual and reciting
Moshe Halbertal: Torah from heaven – rabbinic interpretations of Sinai
Posted in Halakha, History, Videos, israel, tagged israel, jewish, revelation, shavuot, sinai, torah on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Professor Moshe Halbertal, Senior Fellow at Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, talks about Rabbinic interpretations of the revelation of Torah at Mount Sinai to the Institute’s Lay Leadership Program, June 27, 2008
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