Oseh Shalom from “Israel – Home of Hope”
On 24th November 1984 one of the most famous music recordings in history, “Band Aid”, took place at a studio … Read more
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Future Tense – How The Jews Invented Hope
Why are we here? Why are we Jews? Why does the world need – if indeed it does – a … Read more
Future Tense – Unwritten Chapter
In 1756 Voltaire, self-proclaimed defender of liberty, published a virulently antisemitic essay about the Jews. They had, he said, contributed … Read more
Future Tense – The Next Challenge
The first task of Zionism was achieved with extraordinary success: the creation of a Jewish state. The second task has … Read more
Future Tense – Israel at 60: A Dream Fulfilled
My great-grandfather Rabbi Arye Leib Frumkin went to Israel in 1871; his father had settled there twenty years earlier. His … Read more
Future Tense – The New Antisemitism: What is it & how do we deal with it?
On 27 January 2000, heads of state or senior representatives of 44 governments met in Stockholm to commit themselves to … Read more
Future Tense – The World has Changed; So Must We
Towards the end of 1999 I received a strange request. A professor of medieval history at Boston University, Richard … Read more
Ekev (5767) – Geography and Destiny
THE TORAH IS A WORK OF WONDROUS DEPTH AND SUBTLETY, so much so that we can easily miss some of … Read more
Va’etchanan (5767) – Listen O Israel
R. JACOB LEINER (1814-1878), leader of the Hassidic community in Radzyn, was the son of the Ishbitzer Rebbe, R. Mordechai … Read more
Why academic freedom is a religious matter
I WAS the first member of my family to go to university, and what I learnt there went far beyond … Read more
