Israel Under Fire
The last time air raid sirens blared across Israel at the approach of incoming missiles fired from Gaza, in December 2012—a conflict that, as awful as it was, inflicted less suffering on both sides...
View ArticleChancellor Arnold Eisen Speaks at the “New York Stands with Israel...
This week, Jews in New York join with Jews in Israel and Jews around the world in beginning to read Sefer Devarim—the book of the Torah that more than any other sets forth the eternal bond uniting the...
View ArticleBetting on Hope
It’s not often that a museum makes history as well as chronicles it, and rare too when otherwise cautious observers, chastened by the repeated experience of expectations gone awry, remark at the...
View ArticleSpeaking to and About Israel
At the first-ever Israeli conference devoted to the religious thought and political activism of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, former professor of Jewish Ethics and Mysticism at JTS, which took place in...
View ArticleTeaching The Torah of Conservative Judaism
The following address was given at the 2016 Rabbinical Assembly convention. Let me begin by saying that for me it is an honor beyond words to address my colleagues in the RA once more as chancellor of...
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