In the interests if transparency and honesty, let me state at the outset here that this brilliant essay is completely self-serving and personally motivated. But nevertheless it does, in my opinion, contain ideas and insights that may prove worthwhile to my long-suffering loyal readers. The name of my newly published book is “Who Knows Twelve – Insights and Values From the Book of Trei-Asar (The Twelve Prophets).”

 
The book is a culmination of research and ruminations that have gathered in my mind, living here in Jerusalem over the past few years. It became clear to me that a true appreciation of the words of prophecy of these great and holy men of Israel is much easier to achieve…..
Rabbi Berel Wein ‏@historyrabbi 
…..when living in the Land of Israel rather than when in an apparently gilded Diaspora environment.
Rabbi Berel Wein ‏@historyrabbi 
Rabbi Berel Wein ‏@historyrabbi 

 

Parshat Chayei Sarah 5776 Newsletter – Rabbi Berel Wein http://conta.cc/1NpePpR 

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 Stephan Ozsváth 
 Stephan Ozsváth 
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but the melding of Zionism and Marxism is an outright paradox. With that uniquely Jewish knack for uniting contradictions, the kibbutz movement was born. Rabbi Wein tracks the socialist influences on the modern state of Israel and tells the little-known story of how another pair of opposites- Rav Kook and Rav Sonnenfeld – united to surmount them.
 Stephan Ozsváth 

 Berel Wein ‏@JewishHistory  27 Aug 2012

Israel’s Declaration of Independence – To Include God or Not to Include God http://goo.gl/fb/hO5pk

 

Hitler & Stalin: The Strangest of Bedfellows http://goo.gl/fb/HPHfk 

 Stephan Ozsváth 

Christians and Muslims praying together in Lesvos for #refugeesGr who died in the Aegean Sea #refugeeswelcome pic.twitter.com/DUEmGv2PHI

Analyse. Das Land gab dem Dichterpräsidenten Árpád Göncz das letzte Geleit. Das heutige Ungarn hat weniger Geist – und mehr Juristen.

 

A moderate Syrian rebel leader asks: Why is Russia bombing my town? http://wapo.st/1PfXpgJ