Rabbi Held News Today

Article: Rabbi Shai Held on the Heart of Jewish Life (REVIEW ESSAY) - Rabbi Shai Held (born in 1971; ordination, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1999; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2010) has published a massively researched new 2024 book titled Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). It is a tour de force in biblical interpretation.

I want to begin with the 1970s, specifically the phenomenon of disaster movies. There was a flurry of them, many with ensembles of A-list actors. There was "Earthquake." We had

From the blog of Leora Kling Perkins at The Times of Israel