Articles

Shalom u’vracha to all of our friends and members.

This year has been record breaking for our University Network and Campus Fellowships Program. We are currently on 21 campuses from UCLA to New York University. We have have international fellows at McGill and University of Toronto in Canada, and for the first time in England at Oxford University.

We are off to a great start this semester on our campuses. Our fellows are leading groups tackling various issues in Modern Orthodoxy.

Review of

The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling:

A Guide for All Faiths

Michelle Friedman and Rachel Yehuda

Routledge, 2016, 208 pp.

(Reviewed by Dr. Seth Aronson, Director of Training, Training and Supervising Analyst at William Alanson White Institute)

Thoughts to Ponder 529

The Genius and Limitations of Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik z”l *

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Based on an introduction to a discussion between Professor William Kolbrener and Professor Elliott Malamet (1)

Honoring the publication of Professor William Kolbrener’s new book

“The Last Rabbi” (2)

Yad Harav Nissim, Jerusalem, on Feb. 1, 2017

Introduction

To our members and friends,

We have a very exciting winter semester of classes with the Institute. Here is a brief schedule:

Wednesday, February 15, 7:00-8:00pm: Double book reception for my two new books:

Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi: Prophecy in an Age of Uncertainty, By Hayyim Angel, Maggid Books, 2016.

Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin

Thoughts to Ponder 524

Syria and the Scandal of our (Orthodox) Synagogues

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

“Lord of the Universe, I beg You to redeem Israel; but if You do not want to do that, then I beg You to redeem the gentiles.”

Rabbi Yisrael Hopstein, Maggid of Kozhnitz

 and legendary Chassidic leader in Poland (1733-1814)  (1)

The Talmud posits an important principle: the Heavenly court deals with us by the exact same standards that we use to deal with others (Sotah 8b). If we are kind and compassionate, we can expect to be judged by God with kindness and compassion. If we are cruel and unfairly critical of others, we can expect the Heavenly court to deal with us with the same qualities we have shown to others.