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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.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Stressing Shavuot as the holiday of Revelation was essential to the Rabbis because acceptance of the covenant of the Torah made Israel an eternal people.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
One generation after Jewish life was worthless and all sorts of excuses were offered not to ransom Jews, here is the countertestimony.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
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However, there is already a fundamental difference from the past. In the past, a threatened Jewish community in Diaspora could hope only to sustain bearable losses and to live on by sufferance or flight. Israel has—and, through it, all Jews have—a major voice in its own fate. In the past, when Jews were destroyed, their wealth and achievement enric
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Anti-Semites usually think that Jews are very important. Anti-Semites imagine that the Jews control the world, or the banking system, or at least the media, and that they are to blame for everything from global warming to the 9/11 attacks. Such anti-Semitic paranoia is as ludicrous as Jewish megalomania. Jews may be a very interesting people, but w
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Nous le savons, c’est éternel. Il n’y a que le non-juif qui oublie vraiment, qui ne sait pas que