Rabbi Pini Dunner is the senior spiritual leader at Beverly Hills Synagogue, a member of the Young Israel family of synagogues.
If and when this crisis is finally over, the lesson will have to be that Russia can never again be trusted as a partner in international affairs until it has properly embraced the elusive but indispensable second tabernacle.
Over the course of several days, tens of thousands of people around the world learned Rabbi Sacks-inspired Torah together in what must surely have been one of the most unique events in Torah-study history.
Historians will one day look back at the Afghanistan withdrawal and cite it—as they do the Suez withdrawal for Britain—as the moment when the penny dropped, and the American king was seen with no clothes.
In preparation for this curious festival, I decided to research the phenomenon of love to see what modern science has to say about it.
Isaac Herzog is a humble man who pursues peace and encourages cooperation, which in my eyes makes him most suited to his new role.
At its peak capacity, Ashalim will generate about one percent of all of Israel’s energy needs.
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