Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern is Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives at Yeshiva University and Deputy Director of Y.U.’s Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought. His books include the newly released "Jewish Roots of American Liberty," "The Promise of Liberty: A Passover Haggada," "Esther in America," "Gleanings: Reflections on Ruth" and "Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States."
Emma’s diary represents testimony of an America, and an American Jewish community, torn asunder during America’s strenuous effort to manifest its founding ideal of the equality of all people who were created in the image of God.
Rabbi Max Lilienthal understood that like Moses, Lincoln’s impact would achieve immortality.
As the Iranian people yearn for their liberation, a reflection on the improbable connection between ancient Persian civilization and the Jewish holiday of freedom.
While the Jewish people continue to face enemies seeking our destruction, we continue to survive.
Canines’ renowned loyalty was a natural representation of the “loyal transmission of the divine mandate from generation to generation.”
As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against the belief system and symbols of authority of Pharaoh and his people.
With the biblical tale read on the holiday of Purim twice – once in the evening, once the next morning – it’s occasion to remember a pair of heroic American Mordecais, one by that first name and one with that last.
Wildes’ book presents, in a warm and accessible manner, the core beliefs and practices of Judaism.
Both the Chief Rabbi and America’s Commander in Chief understood that America and Israel were bonded by the Bible, allies in a faith guided by God’s ancient promise of freedom centuries ago.
