Sergiu Simmel
The Foreign Minister of Slovakia, Miroslav Lajcak, has told the Jerusalem Post that several European countries changed their votes on the Goldstone Report in the United Nations General Assembly on Friday because they believe that Israel is responsible...
Question: Why did the Sages not write a Megillah to commemorate the miracle of Chanukah, as was the case with the miracle of Purim? Answer: A possible answer to your question is that the books of Tanach (Hebrew Bible) were written by prophets, all of...
I just read Rabbi Arik Ascherman’s recent post , which describes the scene on the ground in Sheikh Jarakh. My first response, sadness and anger. After that, I’m just left thinking of the insanity of a settlement movement that is not just...
Two weeks ago, a group of 13 rabbinical students, rabbis, Jewish educators and lay-leaders who spent time in Hebron invited their communities to examine the conflict there by delivering divrei Torah on Parshat Chayei Sarah. Their audiences included...
As a coda to the discussion about the woman arrested for wearing a tallit at the Western Wall, , this little Torah nugget came through my Facebook from my friend Simon. This, he writes, “opinion [was] expressed almost 300 years ago in R. Yom Tov...
Recently, the Rabbinic Assembly, the organisation that represents Conservative rabbis, issued a statement, signed by 300 members, asking that Nazi rhetoric not be used in political discussions. The JTA reported they included examples such as “Southern...
In a deal that has been in the works since the spring, the Canadian Embassy in Venezuela is now handling Israeli consular affairs as well. The history: “Venezuela expelled the Israeli ambassador and embassy staff, and severed relations with the...
Isaac Zablocki is the director of The Israel Film Center at the JCC in Manhattan and Executive Director of The Other Israel Film Festival . When we at the Other Israel Film Festival announced the screening of Mohammed Bakri’s latest documentary Zahara...
Rabbi Danny Gordis’ column from last week’s Jerusalem Post says that if you struggle with your relationship to the State of Israel, it’s probably because you’re individualistic and self-centered. Many of us disagreed. Shalom Rav...
