By MICHAEL SLACKMAN | PUBLISHED: April 3, 2007 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 12, 2018 at 12:00 a.m. NORTH SINAI, Egypt — On the eve of Passover, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the story of Moses leading the Israelites through this wilderness out of slavery, Egypt”s chief archaeologist took a bus full of journalists into the North Sinai […]
The Origins of Judaism
ARCHAEOLOGIST SAYS EXODUS A MYTH
The Exodus as negotiation of identity and human dignity between memory and myth
Why Moses Did Not Write the Torah
Why Moses Did Not Write the Torah At left: “Moses Breaking the Tablets” by Gustave Doré (d. 1883). Click image to enlarge. The Torah — the first five books of the Hebrew Bible — was traditionally held to be the work of Moses, as dictated by God. But starting with some rabbinic voices in the […]
SOME ARE CHOSEN, ALL ARE LOVED
SOME ARE CHOSEN, ALL ARE LOVED Rabbi Gilbert S. Rosenthal Executive Director, National Council of Synagogues I. THE PROBLEM “The central point of Jewish theology and the key to an understanding of the nature of Judaism is the doctrine, ‘God chose Israel as His people.’” So argued Kaufmann Kohler, the eminent Reform theologian, in his […]
UNBELIVABLE BULLSHIT – PROOF THAT GOD EXISTS!
Next » What is Life’s Purpose? “Prove to me that G–d exists” is a challenge as old as religion itself. Religion is defined as a belief in the existence of a superhuman controlling power, and when we give Judaism as our religion our belief in G–d is axiomatic. Yet so many Jews still question this very […]