Allan Nadler is no fan of Rav Kook’s. In the context of evaluating present day religious Zionism, its political expressions and its spiritual roots, he points his fire at Rabbi A.I.Kook ...

This group has sadly determined the current State of Religious Zionism. This romantic and sanitized image of Rav Kook as any model, let alone a leading light for the few remnant champions of ...

At the forefront of the Torah portion of “Vayigash” stands the confrontation and reconciliation of the brothers, Yosef and Yehuda. The Haftara employs this rivalry and reunion in a ...

The celebrated first Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel, Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook (1865-1935) is recognized as being among the most important Jewish thinkers of all time. His writings ...

However, Rav Avraham Yitzhak Kook taught that such an image is a function of thousands of years of exile when we were stripped of statehood and collective Jewish living. During our exile ...

His father, Holocaust survivor Michael Nehorai, was a professor of Jewish philosophy and student of Rav Avraham Yitzhak Kook’s son, Rav Tzvi Yehuda, until they split over a disagreement about ...

ROME, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Rome's chief Jewish rabbi on Thursday sharply criticised Pope Francis over the pontiff's recent ramping up of criticism against Israel's military campaign in Gaza ...

The root of religious Zionism lies in the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, who was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate Palestine from 1921. Rabbi Kook established the Mercaz ...

Rabbi Carla Fenves of the Congregation Shaareth Israel in Lubbock said Hanukkah reminds the Jewish community of the fight to maintain Jewish identity throughout the ages. "Hanukkah is a story ...

The escalation of antisemitism in the wake of the Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror massacre in Israel has paved the way for attacks on Jewish communities around the world ...