This week, hundreds of thousands of Israelis will journey to Meron on Lag Ba’Omer, the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, author of the Holy Zohar. The bonfires of Lag Ba’Omer symbolize the ...

Then there is Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook, among the twentieth century’s foremost Torah scholars. Respected among all segments of Jewry (he was a close friend of the fiercely anti-Zionist Rav ...

Shall I start something without being able to finish?” HaRav Avraham Yitzchak Kook writes, “In the end of days, a silent movement has arisen [the Zionist Movement] full of strengths and ...

Yitzchak Eliyashiv, a 45-year-old Jewish New Yorker, was murdered in the Gundogmus district of Antalya province of Turkey earlier this week, according to Turkish and Jewish media reports.

Finally, exhibited here is a letter written by Chief Rabbi of Eretz Yisrael Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook to the Thirteenth Congress, in which he calls upon the delegates to issue a public ...

Yet the story highlights the theological position articulated by Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook and Rabbi Norman Lamm: God is not limited in who He uses to bring about redemption. Rav Kook wrote at ...

It turns out that our Patriarch Avraham was both an intellectual and a great gatherer of people to eat together. But we remember him primarily for the latter quality. His intellect was a gift ...

The munition landed in an open area near Nir Yitzhak due to a technical malfunction,” the Israeli military said in a short statement. The IDF did not say what type of bomb it was. There are no ...

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