38+ min ago (49+ words) Hersh Goldberg-Polin's parents Captivate London audience with message of hope at the Fifth Annual Sacks Conversation. 'I would ask Rabbi Sacks if he could teach Hersh some of what he taught me.' Rachel Goldberg-Polin: 'I would ask Rabbi Sacks if he had found Hersh yet'...

38+ min ago (271+ words) More than 1,200 people filled St John's Wood Synagogue for this year's Sacks Conversation, which brought Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin into dialogue with former Israeli ambassador Daniel Taub. The evening marked the fifth yahrzeit of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and the UK launch of the Conrad Morris Edition of the Koren Sacks Humash. They spoke movingly about grief, faith, and the way familiar Torah passages have taken on new meaning over the past year. Jon drew on figures such as Nachshon ben Aminadav and Joshua and Calev as models of courage and resolve. Rachel reflected on the Torah's call to "choose life," describing it as a daily discipline rather than an abstract idea. The launch of the new Koren Sacks Humash was a central feature of the evening. Dedicated in memory of Conrad Morris, the edition brings together Rabbi Sacks…...

1+ hour, 43+ min ago (42+ words) Meital Azariah was lightly hurt when a teenager threw an iron rod that shattered her windshield near Giti Avishar junction. "It's unbelievable; we felt God protected us," she recounted. Samaria attack: 'He threw an iron rod, I froze. I couldn't talk'...

6+ hour, 30+ min ago (57+ words) Although I am a Hebrew speaker, I traveled to the USA, in order to teach Torah, meet our Jewish brethren, learn about their strengths and the challenges they face, and counteract the negative picture of Israel in the media by describing the gooness of the Land of Israel. Travel notes from the United States: Dreaming of Aliyah!...

6+ hour, 30+ min ago (334+ words) A week ago, I returned from a twelve-day tour of the Jewish communities in the New York and New Jersey area. The purpose of the trip was to teach Torah and meet our Jewish brethren, to learn about their strengths, and the challenges they face. In practice, I delivered dozens of classes to rabbis, communities, and students in yeshivot and schools. Usually, at the end of each lesson, I answered questions on halakha and emunah (faith). In the courtyard of the Bnai Yeshurun synagogue in Teaneck, small lanterns had been placed-one for each hostage, including those still not brought to burial. On Motzei Shabbat, after Maariv, they went outside and recited Psalms, and a child removed two lanterns corresponding to the two bodies recovered that Shabbat. Tears came to my eyes from the intensity of their solidarity. Growing Desire for…...

7+ hour, 1+ min ago (51+ words) Real time news brief - The Quantum, the Jungian, and the Kabbalist: Physics, Psychology, and Mysticism - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site The Quantum, the Jungian, and the Kabbalist: Physics, Psychology, and Mysticism The Quantum, the Jungian, and the Kabbalist: Physics, Psychology, and Mysticism...

14+ hour, 30+ min ago (28+ words) Real time news brief - Miracle: Near-murder in Samaria - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site Miracle: Near-murder in Samaria...

14+ hour, 35+ min ago (43+ words) The Bnei Akiva movement held its annual ceremony this evening to announce the permanent designation of this year's initiates. Bnei Akiva's secretary-general recorded a special message about the new name in the Arutz Sheva studio. Bnei Akiva names new year's initiates 'Amikam'...

14+ hour, 35+ min ago (419+ words) The Bnei Akiva movement held its annual ceremony this evening to announce the permanent designation of this year's initiates in Bnei Akiva chapters worldwide. Bnei Akiva's secretary-general recorded a special message about the new name in the Arutz Sheva studio. Each year, the Bnei Akiva movement welcomes new initiates at chapters worldwide with a month-long process of teambuilding and organizational introduction, culminating in a Shabbat of group activities at which the new initiates are given a permanent designation for their year. The designation is known as that year's 'tribe' and is used for all future Bnei Akiva activities. This year, the month's motto was "A generation will rise and live," the words of former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook. The theme highlighted the story of the revival of the people of Israel and the responsibility of…...

14+ hour, 59+ min ago (931+ words) The human experience is fundamentally a search for coherence. We navigate a world that often appears chaotic, fragmented, and indifferent. Nonetheless, we possess an innate desire to find a unifying thread connecting our inner world, soul, aspirations, and so on, to the external world. For centuries, this search was divided: science explained the "how" of the physical universe, while spirituality and psychology examined the "why" of the inner world. Yet, a profound synthesis emerges when we combine three seemingly different frameworks: the precise probabilities of Quantum Physics, the meaningful coincidences in Jungian Synchronicity, and the ancient mystical wisdom of Kabbalah. This scientific model closely parallels the Kabbalistic concept of creation. In Jewish mysticism, the state before creation is called Ayin (Nothingness) or Ein Sof (The Infinite). Just as the quantum wave function encompasses all possibilities in a state of potential,…...