Posts Tagged: Moses
How Moses Created an Enduring Model of Great Leadership
Socrates is supposed to have said, "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." And he didn't just toss out...
Redemption Doesn’t Wait for Heroes — It Begins With Ordinary People Doing the Right Thing
In the summer of 1940, as Europe collapsed into darkness, a Japanese diplomat sat behind a modest desk in the Lithuanian city of Kovno and...
The Ballot Box Is the Key to Preserving — or Losing — Our Current System
In 1856, Abraham Lincoln, that master of the pithy aphorism, noted that “the ballot is stronger than the bullet.” So sharply observed, and it is...
What Moses and the Torah Can Teach Us About Leadership Today
Over and above the spiritual and ritual laws of the Torah, there are themes of leadership that run through all five books, sometimes overtly and...
‘For This, Have You Been Chosen’
JNS.org - I trust that Jews worldwide enjoyed a meaningful and memorable Passover with family and friends. Of course, no one could stop thinking of...
President Trump’s Passover Greetings: a Message of Solidarity with the Jewish Community
i24 News - President Donald Trump extended heartfelt Passover greetings this week to Jewish communities in the United States, Israel, and around the world, delivering...
The Golden Calf: A Reminder That Anarchy Is Closer Than We Realize
Writing for the Denver Post in 1896 about Mark Hanna — President William McKinley's version of Elon Musk — the American writer Alfred Henry Lewis...
Destiny in Disaster?
JNS.org - Have you ever met a professor of comparative religion? I’ve often wondered whether these academics have really studied all religions and if they...
The Donkey and the Darkness
JNS.org - Did you ever play the game “pin the tail on the donkey?” The way it works is that an image of a donkey...
Dissension in the Ranks
JNS.org - The rabbi was busy doing marriage counseling with a couple in distress. He listened attentively to the wife’s tale of woe, and then...
Sacred Spies?
JNS.org - How far away is theory from practice? “In theory,” a new system should work. But it doesn’t always, does it? How many job...
The Light has Dawned
JNS.org - Jews have always been fond of answering one question with another. In fact, Golda Meir was once asked by a journalist, “Why do...
‘We Will Not Rest’: Jewish UC Berkeley Students March Through Campus Amid Rampant Antisemitism
Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students, professors, and community members marched through the campus on Monday to "assert Jewish visibility and presence" following an...
How to Find the Miracles in Every Day Life
“Taking Miracles Seriously: A Journey to Everyday Spirituality” by Rabbi Michael Zedek (Sutherland House Books, 2023) “Taking Miracles Seriously” puts readers on a truly original search...
