Sublime

In Judaism, faith is not acceptance but protest, against the world that is, in the name of the world that is not yet but ought to be.

In 1974, those Israelis intent on settling the land captured in 1967 formed their first significant political entity, which would become a cornerstone of the religious Zionist movement. Called Gush Emunim (“Bloc of the Faithful”), it was not only the embodiment of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook’s ideology, but was also in many ways a reinvigoration of an ea

WHATEVER CHALLENGES THE HAREDI world might have represented to Israel’s democracy or economic sustainability, religion in the Jewish state also had other, more radical splinter groups. In the decades following Oslo, a small group of nationalist extremists began to establish outposts in the West Bank (or Judea and Samaria, the biblical name by which

With its dedicated volunteer culture, focus on inspiring traditional davening, high-level Torah study, and egalitarian, universal outlook, Kehilat Hadar attempts to live out a world of Empowered Judaism.

Elle constitue l’engagement solennel pris par l’État d’Israël envers la diaspora, cinq ans après la Shoah, de fournir à tout juif en détresse une planche de salut physique, un refuge

finally, a community that believes—but I mean really, really believes—that Torah has a contribution to make to the redemption of the world, and that ultimately the world will not be redeemed without Torah.