In preparation for the upcoming Israel National Holidays of Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Rabbi Jon Leener has curated a collection of thought-provoking texts, interesting facts, and reflective questions to deepen your preparation. Carefully selected, each text is accompanied by…
Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Yom Hazikaron
What does Yom HaZikaron look like and feel like in Israel? Everyone has lost someone. Flags fly at half staff. Television broadcasts cease, replaced by an endless scroll of the names of the fallen. At 8 p.m. and 11 a.m.…
Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Hazikaron
At least in Israel, maybe this is the one year to let it go. A few weeks into the war, when the young adults I work with were feeling the need to process the dark, topsy-turvy world falling down all…
Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Hazikaron
This was originally published on April 16, 2015. Rina Quint speaks annually at Pardes to the student body, staff and faculty. Her life story is timeless and we are proud to have had the opportunity to record it this time.…
Jewish history, Holocaust, Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Hashoah
A teaching from Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo addressing Israel’s uniqueness among the global community. He shares his thoughts on the paradox of Israel’s reality: as long as it insists on its vocation of uniqueness, it will enjoy security and…
Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Yom Hazikaron
Jews have been praying for the governments of the countries they lived in since the time of the Babylonian exile. Yet the founding of a Jewish and democratic state presents a radically different relationship between the State and its citizens,…
Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Yom Hazikaron
Parshiot Acharei Mot-Kedoshim speak of a land intolerant of sin. But can a land, soils and stones, be holy? In this podcast, Rabbi Alex Israel reflects on the nature of the land of Israel’s holiness, and reflects on the holiday…
Tanakh, Torah, Vayikra (Leviticus), Acharei Mot, Kedoshim, Jewish calendar
The following is a Facebook post written by Pardes faculty member Rabbi Alex Israel. As soon as Pesach ends, Israel’s attention turns to our national days of commemoration: Yom Hashoa, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatazmaut. The feeling is in the…
Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron, Yom Yerushalayim
In this week’s Parsha Podcast, Rabbi Alex Israel discusses the question of what is more critical, Jewish peoplehood or Jewish law? The Wilderness census will send us to a discussion opened by Rav Soloveitchik regarding the two foundational pillars of…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar, Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays
Some see her as finally united, others as more divided than ever. In this special podcast for Yom Yerushalyim, Rabbi Dr. Daniel Roth looks into the gulf between the two Jerusalems, that of our dreams and that of our realities.…
Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Yerushalayim
Some see her as finally united, others as more divided than ever. No, I am not referring to East and West Jerusalem, rather to the Jerusalem of Heaven and the Jerusalem of Earth; between the Jerusalem of our dreams and…
Critical issues, Mahloket Matters/conflict resolution, Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Yerushalayim
Once again this year, the residents of the Baka and Mekor Chaim neighborhoods gathered. It’s an annual get-together that crosses every dividing line among Jews in Israel: immigrants and native-born, secular and religious, Ashkenazim and Mizrachim, old and young, left-wing…
Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Hazikaron
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