There is an interesting article in the latest edition of Biblical Archaeology Review in which Richard Friedman, famed as the author of "Who Wrote the Bible", provides a challenging book review of James Kugel’s "How to Read the Bible" . Kugel’s book claims to reconcile the "documentary hypothesis," which claims that the Torah was...
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Last night I had the opportunity to study Psalms together with monks and nuns from the Community of the Beatitudes in Emmaus . Emmaus is the place where Christians believe Jesus was first seen after being resurrected. The monastery I visited is on a site that Christians have considered the leading contender for the...
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To read Rabbi Leff’s teshuva (Jewish legal opinion) on “Whistleblowing: The Requirement to Report Employer Wrongdoing” click here. Amy Klein wrote a fascinating article in LA’s Jewish Journal about a financial scandal involving money laundering and tax fraud on the part of a Chasidic yeshiva in New York (Spinka), with help of colleagues in...
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First of all, you can check out my latest posting on the "Persistence of Vision: Israel at Sixty" blog here . I comment about my thoughts relating to President George Bush’s visit to Jerusalem. I really truly love Israel and love living here. So I find it somewhat frustrating that when I look at...
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I was recently interviewed on a radio program on Arutz-7, Go’el Jasper’s "Aliyah Revolution." I have to admit, when I was first contacted about the interview, I was a little skeptical — Arutz-7 is a notoriously right-wing outlet, and, frankly, I was wondering about what kind of treatment a Rabbis for Human Rights –...
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