Philosophy

Remembering Rochelle Furstenberg: A groundbreaking writer, editor, and literary critic

Rochelle grew up in Chicago, and later moved to New York to continue her studies. Her husband, Prof. Hillel Furstenberg, was born in Berlin and escaped with his family to New York in 1939.

Rochelle Furstenberg at work at WholeFamily.com where she was  Grandparent Center editor, 1999-2000.
ALIYAH: JUST the beginning. Pictured: French immigrants arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport, Aug. 3.

'Echoes of Rashi': Exploring R. Shlomo Yitzhaki's ideas and their relevance today

A fullmoon rises over the Temple of Poseidon, the ancient Greek god of the seas, in Cape Sounion, east of Athens, Greece, July 8, 2017.

The West funds its own executioners in ideological war it barely realizes it is fighting - opinion

Caregivers from India in Efrat.

Serendipitous gifts are all around us: The invisible threads connecting Israelis in times of loss


Center Field: To reinvigorate Zionism, ‘Z3’ should build ‘identity Zionism’ first

Thankfully, the Z3 Conference didn’t degenerate into the III, the Israel Indignation Industry, where liberals lament Israel’s sins, while conservatives bemoan the world’s hatred.

American Jews [Illustrative]

ETHICS IN EVERYDAY LIFE: Keep the change?

But what if the person who lost the object isn’t a human being but just a corporation? Corporations are owned by collections of human beings – the shareholders.

THE FACT that on other occasions you may have been given too little change also offers no excuse.

Finding a universal truth

Ken Krimstein’s graphic memoir of Hannah Arendt offers a rose-colored view of the philosopher’s work.

KEN KRIMSTEIN

Freud in Jerusalem

The focal point of the Freud of the Rings exhibition at the Israel Museum are six intriguing rings.

The last ring worn by Freud

Maimonides and his perplexing Guide of the Perplexed

His magnum opus, the Guide of the Perplexed, remains the most influential attempt to reconcile Judaism’s sacred texts with scientific truths.

The Rambam

Pay mindfulness forward

How much of my overall experience was not feeling well? Ten percent? Why should I let just one element, already in the minority, define the entire weekend?

Illustrative photo

IN PLAIN LANGUAGE: Jews and cruise

I contemplate both how small and powerless we humans are... yet how far Man can go in captivating and controlling our world

‘I HAVE always been amazed at the large number of Jews who frequent cruise ship

Joy to the world

Musician Yaron Cohen presents a multimedia 'message'.

Musician Yaron Cohen

A toolkit in the search for meaning

Landau touched on many topics, including arguments for both the meaningfulness and meaninglessness of life, the role of religion, and running up against the world’s imperfections.

THE SCULPTURE ‘Le Penseur’ (The Thinker, 1903) by French sculptor Auguste Rodin is seen in the garden of the Musée Rodin in Paris

11th-century Egyptian Haggada unveiled

Unearthing Jewish lives in the Middle Ages.

THIS HAGGADA follows the Eretz Yisrael tradition of Judaism, which disappeared from the world around the 12th century.