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, 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, 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, Yom Hazikaron
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, 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, 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
We are at the point in the Jewish Calendar: Yom HaShoa, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, where the meaning and spiritual purpose of Jewish People-hood are at the center of our thoughts and aspirations. Join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield for an…
Podcast Series, This Pardes Life, Jewish Calendar, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron
Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper and his community in Zur Hadassa – in honour of Israel’s Seventieth Year – are exploring different aspects of Jewish law that were affected by the establishment of the State. In this installment, a special for…
Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Jewish Calendar, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron
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…
Pardes 360, Jewish Calendar, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron, 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…
Pardes 360, Jewish Calendar, Yom Hazikaron
Click Here for Mike’s series on counting the Omer. How can one word, tiferet, mean both truth and beauty? And how can the answer offer us some healing on Remembrance Day?
Podcast Series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Jewish Calendar, The Omer, Yom Hazikaron
Is one obligated to risk one’s life if you save someone else? Does the halakah expect Jews to do what Righteous Gentiles did to save us in the Holocaust? To donate a kidney? And what about in time of war?…
Jewish Calendar, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Yom Hazikaron
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