#rabbi — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/pete-hegseth-faith-rally-dc. "Rededicate 250... features #speakers including a #Detroit #pastor who has called the #Democratic platform 'demonic' &... pray[ed] at Trump’s second inauguration; a #rabbi who has defended the use of #torture & authored an essay titled The Virtue of Hate; & a #Christian author & radio host who said in 2020 he would die in the fight to keep Joe #Biden out of the #WhiteHouse & was later named in a #defamation suit over 2020 #election #fraud claims."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/pete-hegseth-faith-rally-dc. "Rededicate 250... features #speakers including a #Detroit #pastor who has called the #Democratic platform 'demonic' &... pray[ed] at Trump’s second inauguration; a #rabbi who has defended the use of #torture & authored an essay titled The Virtue of Hate; & a #Christian author & radio host who said in 2020 he would die in the fight to keep Joe #Biden out of the #WhiteHouse & was later named in a #defamation suit over 2020 #election #fraud claims."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/pete-hegseth-faith-rally-dc. "Rededicate 250... features #speakers including a #Detroit #pastor who has called the #Democratic platform 'demonic' &... pray[ed] at Trump’s second inauguration; a #rabbi who has defended the use of #torture & authored an essay titled The Virtue of Hate; & a #Christian author & radio host who said in 2020 he would die in the fight to keep Joe #Biden out of the #WhiteHouse & was later named in a #defamation suit over 2020 #election #fraud claims."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/pete-hegseth-faith-rally-dc. "Rededicate 250... features #speakers including a #Detroit #pastor who has called the #Democratic platform 'demonic' &... pray[ed] at Trump’s second inauguration; a #rabbi who has defended the use of #torture & authored an essay titled The Virtue of Hate; & a #Christian author & radio host who said in 2020 he would die in the fight to keep Joe #Biden out of the #WhiteHouse & was later named in a #defamation suit over 2020 #election #fraud claims."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/pete-hegseth-faith-rally-dc. "Rededicate 250... features #speakers including a #Detroit #pastor who has called the #Democratic platform 'demonic' &... pray[ed] at Trump’s second inauguration; a #rabbi who has defended the use of #torture & authored an essay titled The Virtue of Hate; & a #Christian author & radio host who said in 2020 he would die in the fight to keep Joe #Biden out of the #WhiteHouse & was later named in a #defamation suit over 2020 #election #fraud claims."

"#Rabbi #RazielCohen, 29, known on #socialmedia as “#TheTacticalRabbi,” has spent recent years leading an unusual initiative in the #UnitedStates: an academy that trains #Jews in #firearms use and #selfdefense. Against the backdrop of rising #antisemitic incidents across the United States and growing anxiety within #Jewish communities since #Hamas’ #Oct7 terror attack, #Cohen says demand for his training programs has surged sharply.

Cohen was recently documented instructing students at a private #shootingrange in a wooded area of #Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. During the training, participants practiced firing #AR15 #rifles, quick-draw drills and tactical movement. “Jews today understand that the only person who can protect their lives and their families is themselves,” he told the website NorthJersey [dot] com."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/skegk1zjmg

"#Rabbi #RazielCohen, 29, known on #socialmedia as “#TheTacticalRabbi,” has spent recent years leading an unusual initiative in the #UnitedStates: an academy that trains #Jews in #firearms use and #selfdefense. Against the backdrop of rising #antisemitic incidents across the United States and growing anxiety within #Jewish communities since #Hamas’ #Oct7 terror attack, #Cohen says demand for his training programs has surged sharply.

Cohen was recently documented instructing students at a private #shootingrange in a wooded area of #Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. During the training, participants practiced firing #AR15 #rifles, quick-draw drills and tactical movement. “Jews today understand that the only person who can protect their lives and their families is themselves,” he told the website NorthJersey [dot] com."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/skegk1zjmg

"#Rabbi #RazielCohen, 29, known on #socialmedia as “#TheTacticalRabbi,” has spent recent years leading an unusual initiative in the #UnitedStates: an academy that trains #Jews in #firearms use and #selfdefense. Against the backdrop of rising #antisemitic incidents across the United States and growing anxiety within #Jewish communities since #Hamas’ #Oct7 terror attack, #Cohen says demand for his training programs has surged sharply.

Cohen was recently documented instructing students at a private #shootingrange in a wooded area of #Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. During the training, participants practiced firing #AR15 #rifles, quick-draw drills and tactical movement. “Jews today understand that the only person who can protect their lives and their families is themselves,” he told the website NorthJersey [dot] com."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/skegk1zjmg

"#Rabbi #RazielCohen, 29, known on #socialmedia as “#TheTacticalRabbi,” has spent recent years leading an unusual initiative in the #UnitedStates: an academy that trains #Jews in #firearms use and #selfdefense. Against the backdrop of rising #antisemitic incidents across the United States and growing anxiety within #Jewish communities since #Hamas’ #Oct7 terror attack, #Cohen says demand for his training programs has surged sharply.

Cohen was recently documented instructing students at a private #shootingrange in a wooded area of #Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. During the training, participants practiced firing #AR15 #rifles, quick-draw drills and tactical movement. “Jews today understand that the only person who can protect their lives and their families is themselves,” he told the website NorthJersey [dot] com."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/skegk1zjmg

"#Rabbi #RazielCohen, 29, known on #socialmedia as “#TheTacticalRabbi,” has spent recent years leading an unusual initiative in the #UnitedStates: an academy that trains #Jews in #firearms use and #selfdefense. Against the backdrop of rising #antisemitic incidents across the United States and growing anxiety within #Jewish communities since #Hamas’ #Oct7 terror attack, #Cohen says demand for his training programs has surged sharply.

Cohen was recently documented instructing students at a private #shootingrange in a wooded area of #Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. During the training, participants practiced firing #AR15 #rifles, quick-draw drills and tactical movement. “Jews today understand that the only person who can protect their lives and their families is themselves,” he told the website NorthJersey [dot] com."

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/skegk1zjmg

"Analysts increasingly describe modern #antisemitism as a convergence phenomenon — where far-left anti-#Zionism, far-right #conspiracy culture, #online #radicalization and broader political nihilism begin feeding one another. #Jews become symbolic targets onto which fractured societies project anger and distrust. As #JoshKaplan recently reminded us in The Free Press, the late #Rabbi Lord #JonathanSacks warned that “antisemitism is a projection, and is caused not by Jews but by internal conflicts in the societies that give rise to it.” That diagnosis feels painfully relevant now.

#America is experiencing a broader coarsening of civic life. Political rage has become performative. #Socialmedia rewards outrage over restraint. #Conspiracytheories spread faster than facts. Institutions are distrusted almost by default. In such an environment, antisemitism flourishes because it offers unstable movements a visible villain onto whom complex frustrations can be pinned."

https://www.jewishexponent.com/editorial-the-new-shape-of-antisemitism/

"#Ziegler’s Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy is a 534-page book on a four-chapter #megillah. The disproportion is the point. Ziegler, a faculty member at #HerzogCollege and teacher at #MatanandMidreshetMoriah, spent more than two decades teaching #MegillatRuth in #bateimidrash before committing these #shiurim to print. What she has produced is not a work of academic #biblical criticism.

It is a work of #Torah, one that happens to deploy #literary tools in service of the sacred text’s deeper meaning. The methodology she calls “#literary-#theological,” a term she credits to #Rabbi #ShalomCarmy, fulfills something Rabbi #AharonLichtenstein called for in a 1962 lecture at #SternCollege: the application of close reading and literary analysis to #Tanach, not to evaluate the text but to hear it more clearly. “I have eschewed a pretense of academic detachment,” she writes...”

https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-895368

https://www.europesays.com/iran/105825/ Angela Alsobrooks’ vote to block arms sales to Israel is dangerous #alsobrooks #angela #arms #block #campaign #ChaiPosner #Israel #rabbi #vote

"Even inside a five-story brownstone crowded with #paintings, #sculptures and #books, no single work can fully contain the spirit of #Ukrainian-born #artist #BenZion. Still, one #painting comes close: a #portrait of the healer and #rabbi known as #BaalShemTov, seated calmly beneath a tree. Rendered in ochre, gray and green, the canvas draws on #Jewish #mysticism and the natural world, themes that pulse through Ben-Zion’s life and work.

Perfectly preserved from the years Ben-Zion lived there, from 1965 until his death in 1987, the #BenZionHouse, located in #Chelsea in #Manhattan, is anything but a mausoleum. Instead, it feels like a living sanctuary — one that not only celebrates the Jewish artist’s life and work, but continues to inspire the #writers, #poets, #architects, #musicians and #painters who pass through its rooms."

https://forward.com/culture/823600/jewish-art-ben-zion-new-york-house/

"Even inside a five-story brownstone crowded with #paintings, #sculptures and #books, no single work can fully contain the spirit of #Ukrainian-born #artist #BenZion. Still, one #painting comes close: a #portrait of the healer and #rabbi known as #BaalShemTov, seated calmly beneath a tree. Rendered in ochre, gray and green, the canvas draws on #Jewish #mysticism and the natural world, themes that pulse through Ben-Zion’s life and work.

Perfectly preserved from the years Ben-Zion lived there, from 1965 until his death in 1987, the #BenZionHouse, located in #Chelsea in #Manhattan, is anything but a mausoleum. Instead, it feels like a living sanctuary — one that not only celebrates the Jewish artist’s life and work, but continues to inspire the #writers, #poets, #architects, #musicians and #painters who pass through its rooms."

https://forward.com/culture/823600/jewish-art-ben-zion-new-york-house/

"Even inside a five-story brownstone crowded with #paintings, #sculptures and #books, no single work can fully contain the spirit of #Ukrainian-born #artist #BenZion. Still, one #painting comes close: a #portrait of the healer and #rabbi known as #BaalShemTov, seated calmly beneath a tree. Rendered in ochre, gray and green, the canvas draws on #Jewish #mysticism and the natural world, themes that pulse through Ben-Zion’s life and work.

Perfectly preserved from the years Ben-Zion lived there, from 1965 until his death in 1987, the #BenZionHouse, located in #Chelsea in #Manhattan, is anything but a mausoleum. Instead, it feels like a living sanctuary — one that not only celebrates the Jewish artist’s life and work, but continues to inspire the #writers, #poets, #architects, #musicians and #painters who pass through its rooms."

https://forward.com/culture/823600/jewish-art-ben-zion-new-york-house/

"Even inside a five-story brownstone crowded with #paintings, #sculptures and #books, no single work can fully contain the spirit of #Ukrainian-born #artist #BenZion. Still, one #painting comes close: a #portrait of the healer and #rabbi known as #BaalShemTov, seated calmly beneath a tree. Rendered in ochre, gray and green, the canvas draws on #Jewish #mysticism and the natural world, themes that pulse through Ben-Zion’s life and work.

Perfectly preserved from the years Ben-Zion lived there, from 1965 until his death in 1987, the #BenZionHouse, located in #Chelsea in #Manhattan, is anything but a mausoleum. Instead, it feels like a living sanctuary — one that not only celebrates the Jewish artist’s life and work, but continues to inspire the #writers, #poets, #architects, #musicians and #painters who pass through its rooms."

https://forward.com/culture/823600/jewish-art-ben-zion-new-york-house/

"Even inside a five-story brownstone crowded with #paintings, #sculptures and #books, no single work can fully contain the spirit of #Ukrainian-born #artist #BenZion. Still, one #painting comes close: a #portrait of the healer and #rabbi known as #BaalShemTov, seated calmly beneath a tree. Rendered in ochre, gray and green, the canvas draws on #Jewish #mysticism and the natural world, themes that pulse through Ben-Zion’s life and work.

Perfectly preserved from the years Ben-Zion lived there, from 1965 until his death in 1987, the #BenZionHouse, located in #Chelsea in #Manhattan, is anything but a mausoleum. Instead, it feels like a living sanctuary — one that not only celebrates the Jewish artist’s life and work, but continues to inspire the #writers, #poets, #architects, #musicians and #painters who pass through its rooms."

https://forward.com/culture/823600/jewish-art-ben-zion-new-york-house/

"#RavKook’s exceptionalism lies in the fact that his ideas remain relevant even in 2026, reinforcing the impact noted above.

This enduring influence is especially evident in his #writings, which present unique challenges in #translation. Anyone who has used a Soncino translation of the #Talmud knows that translation can leave one with still a long way to go in figuring out the meaning of the original text.

#Rabbi #AryehSklar has addressed this challenge in Rav Kook’s Guide for Today’s Perplexed (#KodeshPress). More than just a translation, #Sklar’s edition includes extensive footnotes to fill in many gaps, adding essential details and context not apparent in the original text.

Adding further depth to the work, the #book itself has a fascinating history. It remained an unpublished #manuscript for more than a century before #Rabbi #ShacharRachmani released it in full in 2014 as For the Perplexed of the Generation (LeNevuchei haDor)."

https://jewishpress.com/for-the-perplexed-in-every-generation/

"#RavKook’s exceptionalism lies in the fact that his ideas remain relevant even in 2026, reinforcing the impact noted above.

This enduring influence is especially evident in his #writings, which present unique challenges in #translation. Anyone who has used a Soncino translation of the #Talmud knows that translation can leave one with still a long way to go in figuring out the meaning of the original text.

#Rabbi #AryehSklar has addressed this challenge in Rav Kook’s Guide for Today’s Perplexed (#KodeshPress). More than just a translation, #Sklar’s edition includes extensive footnotes to fill in many gaps, adding essential details and context not apparent in the original text.

Adding further depth to the work, the #book itself has a fascinating history. It remained an unpublished #manuscript for more than a century before #Rabbi #ShacharRachmani released it in full in 2014 as For the Perplexed of the Generation (LeNevuchei haDor)."

https://jewishpress.com/for-the-perplexed-in-every-generation/

"#RavKook’s exceptionalism lies in the fact that his ideas remain relevant even in 2026, reinforcing the impact noted above.

This enduring influence is especially evident in his #writings, which present unique challenges in #translation. Anyone who has used a Soncino translation of the #Talmud knows that translation can leave one with still a long way to go in figuring out the meaning of the original text.

#Rabbi #AryehSklar has addressed this challenge in Rav Kook’s Guide for Today’s Perplexed (#KodeshPress). More than just a translation, #Sklar’s edition includes extensive footnotes to fill in many gaps, adding essential details and context not apparent in the original text.

Adding further depth to the work, the #book itself has a fascinating history. It remained an unpublished #manuscript for more than a century before #Rabbi #ShacharRachmani released it in full in 2014 as For the Perplexed of the Generation (LeNevuchei haDor)."

https://jewishpress.com/for-the-perplexed-in-every-generation/

"#RavKook’s exceptionalism lies in the fact that his ideas remain relevant even in 2026, reinforcing the impact noted above.

This enduring influence is especially evident in his #writings, which present unique challenges in #translation. Anyone who has used a Soncino translation of the #Talmud knows that translation can leave one with still a long way to go in figuring out the meaning of the original text.

#Rabbi #AryehSklar has addressed this challenge in Rav Kook’s Guide for Today’s Perplexed (#KodeshPress). More than just a translation, #Sklar’s edition includes extensive footnotes to fill in many gaps, adding essential details and context not apparent in the original text.

Adding further depth to the work, the #book itself has a fascinating history. It remained an unpublished #manuscript for more than a century before #Rabbi #ShacharRachmani released it in full in 2014 as For the Perplexed of the Generation (LeNevuchei haDor)."

https://jewishpress.com/for-the-perplexed-in-every-generation/

"#RavKook’s exceptionalism lies in the fact that his ideas remain relevant even in 2026, reinforcing the impact noted above.

This enduring influence is especially evident in his #writings, which present unique challenges in #translation. Anyone who has used a Soncino translation of the #Talmud knows that translation can leave one with still a long way to go in figuring out the meaning of the original text.

#Rabbi #AryehSklar has addressed this challenge in Rav Kook’s Guide for Today’s Perplexed (#KodeshPress). More than just a translation, #Sklar’s edition includes extensive footnotes to fill in many gaps, adding essential details and context not apparent in the original text.

Adding further depth to the work, the #book itself has a fascinating history. It remained an unpublished #manuscript for more than a century before #Rabbi #ShacharRachmani released it in full in 2014 as For the Perplexed of the Generation (LeNevuchei haDor)."

https://jewishpress.com/for-the-perplexed-in-every-generation/

"#Swastikas and #Hitler #graffiti were spray-painted on a #synagogue, a #Jewish center, homes, and a vehicle in #NewYorkCity, by at least four people still at large.

Congregation #MachaneChodosh in #ForestHills was the synagogue that was spray-painted, which #Rabbi #YossiMendelson told the #NewYork Post on Monday was “very upsetting.”

"The rabbi who founded our synagogue was himself a #German refugee and dedicated the synagogue to the memory of the synagogues that were destroyed in #Germany and the #Jews who were murdered for being Jewish,” #Mendelson said."

https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/swastikas-hitler-graffiti-spray-painted-on-nyc-synagogue-homes-zohran-mamdani-kathy-hochul-hakeem-jeffries-jewish-nypd

"#Jewish leaders on Wednesday condemned a move by #Antwerp prosecutors to refer two Jewish ritual #circumcisers to court, warning it could undermine core #religious rights.

#Rabbi #MenachemMargolin, chairman of the #European Jewish Association, called the decision a serious escalation and said it risks sending a chilling message to Jewish communities in #Belgium."

https://vinnews.com/2026/05/06/jewish-group-warns-belgium-legal-case-could-threaten-future-of-jewish-life/

Fake #rabbi curse, banned #pilgrimage; Russian disinformation fuels Ukraine–Israel tensions

#Russian #disinformation networks sought to fan #tensions between #Ukraine & #Israel over shipments of #stolen #Ukrainian #grain

Russia-linked #bot network Matryoshka circulated #videos #falsely claiming that an Orthodox rabbi “cursed” President Volodymyr Zelensky due to the dispute, or that #Ukraine may bar Israelis from the #Uman pilgrimage

https://kyivindependent.com/fake-rabbi-curse-russian-disinformation-fans-ukraine-israel-tensions/

#HybridWarfare #RussianAggression

"Introduction to the #Zohar: The Wisdom of Truth by #Rabbi #YehudaLeibHaLeviAshlag addresses with extraordinary precision the questions serious learners carry but rarely find answered: what #Torah and #mitzvot are actually for, why we suffer, how the soul relates to G-d, what the Zohar is and why it matters now. The #BaalHaSulam wrote this from inside the catastrophe. In his final section he writes that all the glory of #Israel in #Poland and #Lithuania has been reduced to a handful of refugees in the #HolyLand, and that it falls to those who remain – #sharithapletah – the surviving remnant, to repair what has been broken. That weight runs through every word.

He opens with six questions, none of them rhetorical..."

https://jewishpress.com/the-ladder-is-not-the-goal/

"Introduction to the #Zohar: The Wisdom of Truth by #Rabbi #YehudaLeibHaLeviAshlag addresses with extraordinary precision the questions serious learners carry but rarely find answered: what #Torah and #mitzvot are actually for, why we suffer, how the soul relates to G-d, what the Zohar is and why it matters now. The #BaalHaSulam wrote this from inside the catastrophe. In his final section he writes that all the glory of #Israel in #Poland and #Lithuania has been reduced to a handful of refugees in the #HolyLand, and that it falls to those who remain – #sharithapletah – the surviving remnant, to repair what has been broken. That weight runs through every word.

He opens with six questions, none of them rhetorical..."

https://jewishpress.com/the-ladder-is-not-the-goal/

"Introduction to the #Zohar: The Wisdom of Truth by #Rabbi #YehudaLeibHaLeviAshlag addresses with extraordinary precision the questions serious learners carry but rarely find answered: what #Torah and #mitzvot are actually for, why we suffer, how the soul relates to G-d, what the Zohar is and why it matters now. The #BaalHaSulam wrote this from inside the catastrophe. In his final section he writes that all the glory of #Israel in #Poland and #Lithuania has been reduced to a handful of refugees in the #HolyLand, and that it falls to those who remain – #sharithapletah – the surviving remnant, to repair what has been broken. That weight runs through every word.

He opens with six questions, none of them rhetorical..."

https://jewishpress.com/the-ladder-is-not-the-goal/

"Introduction to the #Zohar: The Wisdom of Truth by #Rabbi #YehudaLeibHaLeviAshlag addresses with extraordinary precision the questions serious learners carry but rarely find answered: what #Torah and #mitzvot are actually for, why we suffer, how the soul relates to G-d, what the Zohar is and why it matters now. The #BaalHaSulam wrote this from inside the catastrophe. In his final section he writes that all the glory of #Israel in #Poland and #Lithuania has been reduced to a handful of refugees in the #HolyLand, and that it falls to those who remain – #sharithapletah – the surviving remnant, to repair what has been broken. That weight runs through every word.

He opens with six questions, none of them rhetorical..."

https://jewishpress.com/the-ladder-is-not-the-goal/

"Introduction to the #Zohar: The Wisdom of Truth by #Rabbi #YehudaLeibHaLeviAshlag addresses with extraordinary precision the questions serious learners carry but rarely find answered: what #Torah and #mitzvot are actually for, why we suffer, how the soul relates to G-d, what the Zohar is and why it matters now. The #BaalHaSulam wrote this from inside the catastrophe. In his final section he writes that all the glory of #Israel in #Poland and #Lithuania has been reduced to a handful of refugees in the #HolyLand, and that it falls to those who remain – #sharithapletah – the surviving remnant, to repair what has been broken. That weight runs through every word.

He opens with six questions, none of them rhetorical..."

https://jewishpress.com/the-ladder-is-not-the-goal/

"#Exodus: The Genesis of God’s People, published in July 2025 by #ZviGrumet, is a thoughtful and engaging study of the #biblical book of Exodus that illuminates how the #Israelites transformed from families of enslaved people into a nation following their understanding of God. #Rabbi Dr. #Grumet, a veteran educator and scholar of the Bible, brings more than four decades of teaching experience to his work.

Grumet serves as Director of Education at the #LooksteinCenter for #Jewish Education at #BarIlan #University and as editor-in-chief of Jewish Educational Leadership."

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2026/04/26/book-on-exodus-is-mind-expanding-and-enjoyable/

"#Exodus: The Genesis of God’s People, published in July 2025 by #ZviGrumet, is a thoughtful and engaging study of the #biblical book of Exodus that illuminates how the #Israelites transformed from families of enslaved people into a nation following their understanding of God. #Rabbi Dr. #Grumet, a veteran educator and scholar of the Bible, brings more than four decades of teaching experience to his work.

Grumet serves as Director of Education at the #LooksteinCenter for #Jewish Education at #BarIlan #University and as editor-in-chief of Jewish Educational Leadership."

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2026/04/26/book-on-exodus-is-mind-expanding-and-enjoyable/

"#Exodus: The Genesis of God’s People, published in July 2025 by #ZviGrumet, is a thoughtful and engaging study of the #biblical book of Exodus that illuminates how the #Israelites transformed from families of enslaved people into a nation following their understanding of God. #Rabbi Dr. #Grumet, a veteran educator and scholar of the Bible, brings more than four decades of teaching experience to his work.

Grumet serves as Director of Education at the #LooksteinCenter for #Jewish Education at #BarIlan #University and as editor-in-chief of Jewish Educational Leadership."

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2026/04/26/book-on-exodus-is-mind-expanding-and-enjoyable/

"#Exodus: The Genesis of God’s People, published in July 2025 by #ZviGrumet, is a thoughtful and engaging study of the #biblical book of Exodus that illuminates how the #Israelites transformed from families of enslaved people into a nation following their understanding of God. #Rabbi Dr. #Grumet, a veteran educator and scholar of the Bible, brings more than four decades of teaching experience to his work.

Grumet serves as Director of Education at the #LooksteinCenter for #Jewish Education at #BarIlan #University and as editor-in-chief of Jewish Educational Leadership."

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2026/04/26/book-on-exodus-is-mind-expanding-and-enjoyable/

"#Exodus: The Genesis of God’s People, published in July 2025 by #ZviGrumet, is a thoughtful and engaging study of the #biblical book of Exodus that illuminates how the #Israelites transformed from families of enslaved people into a nation following their understanding of God. #Rabbi Dr. #Grumet, a veteran educator and scholar of the Bible, brings more than four decades of teaching experience to his work.

Grumet serves as Director of Education at the #LooksteinCenter for #Jewish Education at #BarIlan #University and as editor-in-chief of Jewish Educational Leadership."

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2026/04/26/book-on-exodus-is-mind-expanding-and-enjoyable/

https://www.europesays.com/es/519021/ Las últimas palabras de Michael Jackson antes de morir en 2009 #50273977 #a #architects #at #book #boteach #Celebrities #coauthors #confessions #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #España #Famosos #florence #gellar #hall #institute #jackson #launch #michael #personality #psychic #rabbi #royal #shmuley #Spain #uri #with

"For the longest time, guides about raising #children had a long shelf life. Had #Rashi written a commentary on how to raise children in 1080, it would likely be just as relevant in 1580.

In contrast to past decades when #parenting guides remained relevant for generations, today’s society changes so quickly that old #childrearing advice often loses value. This shift is evident in Inside the #Teenage Mind: Raising an #Orthodox #Teen in the 21st Century (#MosaicaPress) by #Rabbi #DavidSchlusselberg, a book that addresses the unique challenges parents face in raising Orthodox #teenagers today."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/book-review-inside-the-teenage-mind/

"#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.

“Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.

She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”

The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."

https://www.jns.org/feature/reconstructionist-judaism-founder-mordecai-kaplan-a-restless-soul-who-speaks-to-the-moment-per-new-book

"#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.

“Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.

She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”

The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."

https://www.jns.org/feature/reconstructionist-judaism-founder-mordecai-kaplan-a-restless-soul-who-speaks-to-the-moment-per-new-book

"#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.

“Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.

She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”

The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."

https://www.jns.org/feature/reconstructionist-judaism-founder-mordecai-kaplan-a-restless-soul-who-speaks-to-the-moment-per-new-book

"#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.

“Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.

She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”

The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."

https://www.jns.org/feature/reconstructionist-judaism-founder-mordecai-kaplan-a-restless-soul-who-speaks-to-the-moment-per-new-book

"#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.

“Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.

She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”

The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."

https://www.jns.org/feature/reconstructionist-judaism-founder-mordecai-kaplan-a-restless-soul-who-speaks-to-the-moment-per-new-book

"In his #novel #AFoolsKabbalah, #SteveStern #writes in a manic whirl of disturbing and hilarious images as he follows the great historian of #Jewish #mysticism #GershomScholem on his journey to gather up the remains of a vanished civilization."

"Steve #Stern’s new novel, A Fool’s #Kabbalah, is a #comedy about #tragedy and a tragedy about comedy. It is a #mystical #fable of real events and a realistic account of mysticism. There are Jewish #jokes and Jewish jokesters and #Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters. #Kafka, Kabbalah, #Zionism, and the #shtetl of #Zyldzce (pronounced, perhaps, as “zilch”); #WalterBenjamin, #HannahArendt, love for a #rabbi’s beautiful daughter, and an #occult midnight marriage to an unearthly albino girl in a white gauze dress; shit jokes, fart jokes, raw misery, deep #philosophy, brutal #history and brutal #fantasy, broken hearts and heartfelt joy—these exuberantly disparate topics are somehow, improbably, made to cohere."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/09/the-possibility-of-humor-fools-kabbalah-steve-stern/

#Shalom am #Rhein in #Mainz ! Großartige & sehr sehenswerte #Ausstellung über jüdisches Leben in #Rheinland #Pfalz im @LandesmuseumMZ u.a. mit der Möglichkeit via KI mit dem jüdischen #Mainzer #Gelehrten #Rabbi Maharil (1365-1427) zu sprechen
#Aschkenas #Heimat #Geschichte #Museum

#Shalom am #Rhein in #Mainz ! Großartige & sehr sehenswerte #Ausstellung über jüdisches Leben in #Rheinland #Pfalz im @LandesmuseumMZ u.a. mit der Möglichkeit via KI mit dem jüdischen #Mainzer #Gelehrten #Rabbi Maharil (1365-1427) zu sprechen
#Aschkenas #Heimat #Geschichte #Museum

#Shalom am #Rhein in #Mainz ! Großartige & sehr sehenswerte #Ausstellung über jüdisches Leben in #Rheinland #Pfalz im @LandesmuseumMZ u.a. mit der Möglichkeit via KI mit dem jüdischen #Mainzer #Gelehrten #Rabbi Maharil (1365-1427) zu sprechen
#Aschkenas #Heimat #Geschichte #Museum

#Shalom am #Rhein in #Mainz ! Großartige & sehr sehenswerte #Ausstellung über jüdisches Leben in #Rheinland #Pfalz im @LandesmuseumMZ u.a. mit der Möglichkeit via KI mit dem jüdischen #Mainzer #Gelehrten #Rabbi Maharil (1365-1427) zu sprechen
#Aschkenas #Heimat #Geschichte #Museum

"You may, at this point, notice that you’re reading a #Jewish newspaper, that I’m a Jewish journalist, and that #oysters are not #kosher.

But what if I told you oysters were, in fact, kosher? That a #rabbi once argued they are actually vegetables, by virtue of the fact that they “root” on rocks in the ocean? And that their shells are a form of scales, thus making them part of the kosher category of scaled and finned #fish?

These are real arguments that were made around the turn of the 20th century by Rabbi #IsaacMayerWise, the founder of #HebrewUnionCollege in #Cincinnati, the first #American institution for #Reform Jewish ordination.

The impetus for this #Talmudic bit of logic was in large part a now-infamous feast that has come to be known as the “#TrefaBanquet,” due to the amount of non-kosher food that was served."

https://forward.com/culture/801135/a-kosher-oyster-trefa-banquet-jewish-food-history/

"#HarperCollins #Australia will #publish Conversations with My #Rabbi: Timeless Teachings for a Fractured World, based on conversations between Rabbi #EliSchlanger and #author #NikkiGoldstein recorded before #Schlanger was killed in the #BondiBeach #terrorattack.

The book will be published simultaneously on May 26 in the #US, #UK and Australia.

Schlanger, assistant rabbi at #Chabad of #Bondi for 18 years, was killed on December 14, 2025 along with 14 others as terrorists attacked the annual #Chanukah by the Sea celebration at Bondi Beach.

#Goldstein first met Schlanger in September 2022 when she was gravely ill with pneumonia in a #Sydney ICU. Her daughter spotted Schlanger in the hallway and asked him to come pray for her.

“Standing beside her bed, he blew the #shofar and whispered ancient prayers over Nikki’s comatose body,” the publisher said. “One day later, Nikki began recovering from the life-threatening infection. The doctors called it a miracle.”

https://www.australianjewishnews.com/forthcoming-book-features-conversations-with-rabbi-eli-schlanger/