Letters

Although the phrase Am Hanivchar, the Chosen People, says an enormous amount about the relationship between God and the Jewish…

Twenty years ago, standing on the wet, beautifully tended grass at the Babi Yar ravine, I imagined that I understood…

The doctrine of am hanivchar—the election or chosenness of Israel—has been glorified and condemned, but mostly misunderstood, for the greater…

Bechirat Yisrael, the unique kedushah bestowed upon Am Yisrael by Hakadosh Baruch Hu, is not only an important theological issue…

I found the premise of Rabbi Reuven Spolter’s article, “In Search of Leaders,” (spring 2004) distressing. To be so concerned…

As someone who travels to Eretz Yisrael several times a year, I always look forward to Rabbi Leibel Reznik’s articles…

Next time you are in the refrigerator section of a supermarket, count the different types of orange juices available. In…

While I had not grown up with NCSY, nor did I even hear of this organization until the age of…

In the aftermath of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s death in 1994, it seemed that there were many within the Lubavitcher movement…

In reviewing Yoram Hazony’s The Jewish State--the Struggle for Israel’s Soul (Winter 5761/2000), Rabbi Berel Wein describes the way a…

  A Letter from the Editor This issue of Jewish Action is my 36th, the last of my nine years…