Now that the Jerusalem City Council has decided to name a street (it will be on Givat Ram) after Yeshayahu Leibowitz, I recommend watching these documentaries about him to see what he had to say. The first documentary consists of two videos and has English subtitles. The third video is another fascinating documentary that is [...]
One of the towering figures of the Israeli history and Religious Zionism is Rabbi Shlomo Goren. He is one of those figures without whom the present would probably have been very different. There is already a biography of Rav Goren in English, Rabbi Shlomo Goren: Torah Sage and General, and he has been the subject [...]
Vered Noam recently wrote an article in Hebrew about women and Jewish law in the Israeli National-Religious community. The article, which I wrote about here, caused quite a large amount of discussion. You can read the responses (H) that were published in Musaf Shabbat of Makor Rishon, or some of the close to seven hundred [...]
In 1965 Rav Soloveitchik was interviewed for Maariv by Geula Cohen. The interview touched upon numerous topics, among them the office of the Chief Rabbi. The interview (Hebrew) has been posted online and can be found here. (HT)
A few years ago I wrote about an unmarried teacher in an Israeli religious Ulpana who was fired because she became pregnant through IVF. The court case has just ended and she was awarded 180,000 NIS (app. $48,000). The court said that firing the teacher violated the law against discrimination in the work place. Update: [...]
Israel Channel 8 has been broadcasting a three-part documentary on Yeshayahu Leibowitz. Hopefully they will post the series online when it is finished. The introduction to the second part began with a few words about the relationship between Leibowitz and Isaiah Berlin. Apparently both of them studied Hebrew with the same tutor in Riga. Ephraim [...]
Below is an interview with David Hartman from 1987 that had a big impact on me when it was first published and still does to this day. Interview with David Hartman.-Pluralism and Religious Zionism Also see this post by Eliyahu Stern about David Hartman’s Zionism at Open Zion.
In Haaretz Tomer Persico reviews a new book on Rav Kook. As the subtitle of Smadar Cherlow’s book attests, her work presumes to expose a hidden and secret dimension of the life and importance of the figure known popularly as Rav Kook: his mission as a tzadik yesod olam, literally, a righteous man who serves [...]
(From THE BLOG OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH LAW) Alexander Kaye, former CJL Graduate Fellow in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies and currently the Tikvah Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish Thought at Princeton, recently completed his PhD at Columbia’s history department. His dissertation, ‘The Legal Philosophies of Religious Zionism, 1937-1967,’ is an important contribution to scholarship [...]
The Israeli religious-zionist rabbinic organization Tzohar has begun a campaign (see here for the booklet) calling for changes in policies and spirit of the Chief Rabbinate. (Ynet) Among the platforms that they are calling for are the appointment of rabbinical court judges who actually decide according to what the Chief Rabbis decide, support for a [...]
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