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Sukkot and Modi’s Guru: On the passing of Swami Dayananda
Sukkot is our most universal festival. Zachariah speaks of all nations coming to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast of Sukkot, which in turn...
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A Rosh Hashana Message – World Religious Leaders On Immigrant Crisis
Rosh Hashana is the one time a year that our prayers go universal. All year long we think of Israel, the people, their destiny, faithfulness and...
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The Religious Genius of Love — Rav Kook at 80
It is eighty years since Israel’s (then Palestine’s) first Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, passed away. Tuesday, the third of Elul, will...
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How Religion Has Failed Me
I have always believed and upheld that the world’s religions provide humanity with ethical standards, with guidelines for successful...
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Contemporary adultery and the roots of Tisha B’Av
Talmudic Lessons from Past Destructions Destruction is in many ways the theme of the day. Most of our public discourse is implicitly related to...
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Why do I fast?
Once again, the Jewish season of the Three Weeks, a time of semi-mourning, will overlap with the Muslim month of Ramadan, so both communities...
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My Friends the Sisters
It was surreal – the feeling I had the first time I went to Ecce Homo, on Via Dolorosa, in the Old City of Jerusalem. “Am I really walking these...
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Religious Jewish terrorism: Tabgha Church arson
The Launch of Religious Jewish Terrorism Once again, a Church is vandalized by Jewish extremists. This time, however, the religious motive is...
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United by prayer
ByARIEL HENDELMAN August 21, 2014 The Elijah Interfaith Institute has brought together Christians, Muslims and Jews to explore the power of...
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Congress of Imams and Rabbis
The Elijah Interfaith Institute had the honor of co-sponsoring the First World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace with Hommes de Parole ,...
