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…
Critical issues, Israel, Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, 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, Israel National Holidays, 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, Israel National Holidays, 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…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, 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,…
Critical issues, Israel, Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays
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, Podcast series
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…
Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, 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…
Critical issues, Israel, Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, 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?…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Yom Hazikaron
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Yom Hazikaron
Special podcast by Daniel Landes on the emotional extremes and contrast between Yom Hazikron and Yom HaAtzmaut. He notes how the holidays go together in that without Yom HaAtzmaut after Yom Hazikaron, the pain and grief would be insurmountable. In…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Yom Hazikaron
In anticipation of Memorial Day in Israel, the Pardes Office Manager, Joanne Haas Barth shared some words about her brother Daniel Haas z”l , who fell in the first Lebanon War (Shlom Hagalil) in 1982 at the age of 26.…
Jewish calendar, Israel National Holidays, Yom Hazikaron
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