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Beyond the Headlines: Unity, Identity and the Torah Within

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news

 READING FROM the Torah in synagogue: Shavuot celebrates the giving of the Ten Commandments. These commandments, like the Torah, offer stories, insights, values and actions as ways in to God
 ‘Sefer HaMinhagim,’ or ‘Book of Customs’ was printed in Yiddish in Venice, 1601.

Living in the present: Counting the Omer with meaning

 Avigdor Liberman over a backdrop of the Gaza Strip.

Egypt to control Gaza: Avigdor Liberman reveals his 'day-after' plan in 'Post' exclusive

 Lightning is seen over Palmachim Beach.

Parashat Yitro: Hearing the silence, seeing the sound


IDF allows visitors to see 'burning bush' on Mt. Karkom, but what is it? - explainer

The military noted it would open the area, habitually an IDF fire zone, on December 20-21.

"Burning Bush" Of Mount Karkom.

Unity from division: The lesson of God splitting the Red Sea and the Jews

When we learn the lesson of the Sea of Reeds to feel unity in our hearts, with all our differences, we can be more of the mind to “see” each other, be more forgiving, and able to focus on the good.

 ‘CROSSING THE RED SEA’ by Yoram Raanan.

The opportunity that comes in rebuilding anew - opinion

In this moment, our challenge is to face the brokenness created by this war and to refashion ourselves and our society.

After a year of trial-and-error, the Hebrews built a Tabernacle – so that God could dwell within them

Parashat Behar-Behukotai: Higher and higher

Notwithstanding its mysterious whereabouts, Mount Sinai is a mountain. Why is that significant?

 MOUNT KARKOM, winterbourne waterfall (dry state) atop a mountain ridge.

A Zionist Omer: Significant days in Israeli history

A proposal for a Zionist counting of the Omer, a purposeful reflection on the significance of just a few of the anniversaries, commemorations, and celebrations in the weeks ahead.

 A CELEBRATION of Yom Yerushalayim.

Egypt sees progress in ‘freeing Sinai’ from terror threats

The defeat has been accomplished through local reform, confronting extremist ideas in religious institutions and also shifting educational priorities.

THE BORDER fence cuts across the arid landscape. Looking north, Egypt and the Sinai Desert are to the left of the fence and Israel and the Negev Desert lie on its right.

What are the Ten Commandments in the Bible? - explainer

The Ten Commandments have a central place in Judaism and Jewish history, given by God and Moses at Mount Sinai. Here's what you need to know about them.

 Moses and Aaron with the 10 Commandments (illustrative).

The six most important days in Jewish history

Over 1.2 million days have passed since we left Egypt. To pick just a few days to visit is an impossible task. Yet in my fantasies over the years, I kept settling on the same few days.

 TOUGHEST HEROES in tears: Rabbi Shlomo Goren sounds the shofar at the liberation of the Western Wall, 1967.

Seeing the speaking mouth: A Jewish approach to the material world

The creative impulse takes on progressively greater shape, finally culminating in the tangible creation of the physical universe

 Sunrise is seen from the summit of Mount Sinai in Egypt.

Shavuot: Between revelation and revolution - comment

In each generation, the Jew has an obligation to follow and interpret the Torah, assuring that the Sinaic tradition will endure and never die out.

  JEWS CELEBRATE in Tel Aviv moments after the UN voted to partition Mandatory Palestine, on November 29, 1947. There is little doubt that Judaism would have withered had it not been for the establishment of a Jewish state, says the writer.

Shavuot: The voice of God in the revelation on Sinai

The revelation at Mount Sinai of the Torah remains a mystery as to what exactly happened and what exactly was heard.

MICHELANGELO’S ‘Creation of Adam’ – God as pure thought or reason?