Jewish World
How did a variety of great religious personalities respond to the founding of the State of Israel?
We were not only “few against many,” but a small settlement of less than a million souls, with a few…
The question of the Land of Israel reaches even deeper than we imagine. The whole future of the Torah depends…
These firsthand testimonies capture the miraculous events of 1948 from a uniquely religious perspective.
As much as we’d like to think of it as a sober, careful decision, we have yet to understand the…
Misconception: The “Kotel”1—the Western or Wailing Wall—is Judaism’s holiest site. Fact: The location of the Kodesh Hakodashim (the “Holy of…
Even after living in Yerushalayim for more than ten years now, I still experience a sense of wonderment when I…
What does it mean to be a Zionist who chooses to live in the United States and not in Israel?
It appears that G-d’s interim solution to the challenge of assimilation . . . was the creation of the Jewish…
We should seek each other out and connect with community—so that we connect with the Divine.
At a bar mitzvah in Englewood, New Jersey, in the mid-1980s, Rabbi Menachem Genack, early in his career as rabbinic…
