The two events that dominated the news in Israel during 5760 both divided the nation and brought it together: the peace process and the Lebanon withdrawal.
Rabbi Zvi Dershowitz, the only Jewish chaplain at the jails, has been conducting services and classes, along with counseling inmates, since Passover.
From the start, Martin Indyk\’s career as a U.S. official has been filled with intrigue.As the first Jewish ambassador to Israel and later the top State Department official in charge of Middle East policy, Indyk\’s words and actions have been scrutinized by Jews and Arabs, by proponents and opponents of the peace process.
Even as Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman\’s positions on issues from gun control to Hollywood are dissected, some Jewish leaders hope that he can keep quiet on at least one topic: Jewish law.
Clearly, the rabbis who codified our tradition didn\’t want us to stray too far from at least the spiritual idea of being an Israelite, a member of a tribe.
Why are Jews and non-Jews alike – to the tune of 3.9 million – gravitating to the Kabbalah Centers around the world?
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