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Jerusalem Post The current Justice Minister has a favorable out-look when it comes to Torah Law and the Jewish State. Location: In the Media |
 David Mamet The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, filmmaker, novelist, and essayist offers a controversial look at anti-Semitism in modern life, examining the potentially destructive ways in which Jews themselves look for meaning and truth anywhere--in politics, other religions, and in mindless entertainment--but knee jerk never in Judaism itself.
Mamet goes on to analyze what happens when Jews abandon loyalty to their religion and tradition in order, as he sees it, to find acceptance in Israel-bashing liberal society. Unlike more familiar defenses of Israel that are full of facts, Mamet locks onto what.. Location: Suggested Reading |
 Rav Avraham Isaac Kook Rav Kook as he is commonly referred to was a Jewish thinker, statesman, diplomat, mediator and a renowned Torah scholar. He believed that the modern movement to re-establish Israel as a state had profound theological significance.
He shouldn't be seen only as a Religious Zionist leader, Kook should be properly observed as a pragmatic consensus-builder. Kook never shied away from criticizing his peers, which included the Zionists whether religious or secular. Location: Suggested Reading |
 Eliezer Berkovitz A theologian, philosopher, communal rabbi, and teacher, Eliezer Berkovitz was one of the 20th century’s most significant and outstanding Jewish thinkers. His writings lay out a systematic approach to the modern world that retains full respect for Jewish tradition and law. Location: Suggested Reading |
 Joseph B. Soloveitchik The Lonely Man of Faith is the finest and simplest representation of the thoughts on the meaning of the life of faith amid the many struggles of the modern world. Location: Suggested Reading |
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