Israel – Page 3 – Rabbi Micah Streiffer

Gilad and Marla

The Lord giveth. The Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. – Job 1:21 Five years ago, on June 25, 2006, Gilad Shalit was abducted by Hamas terrorists near the Gaza border. Four years earlier, on July 31, 2002, my friend Marla Bennett – along with eight others – was murdered inContinueContinue reading “Gilad and Marla”

A Reflection on the 15th Anniversary of the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

By Shoshana and Micah Streiffer Orna was standing on a hill overlooking the border between the West Bank and Israel. She explained that before the Six Day War, the area that we were looking at was Jordan, and sniper fire frequently came across the border into her settlement. Orna then mentioned a rally that sheContinueContinue reading “A Reflection on the 15th Anniversary of the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin”

An Orthodox Response to the Conversion Bill

Here is an interesting article opposing the Conversion Bill from an Orthodox perspective. He essentially makes the same argument that the Reform and Conservative movements have been making: that the bill places a disproportionate amount of power into the hands of the Haredi rabbinate. His beef is that it doesn’t include Modern Orthodox/Religious Zionist rabbisContinueContinue reading “An Orthodox Response to the Conversion Bill”

CCAR Statement on Anat Hoffman’s Arrest at the Kotel

The Central Conference of American Rabbis (the body of Reform rabbis in America) released this statement regarding the arrest of Anat Hoffman at the Kotel yesterday: CCAR STATEMENT ON THE ARREST OF ANAT HOFFMAN July 12, 2010 The Central Conference of American Rabbis, the world’s oldest and largest rabbinic association, looks with shock and revulsionContinueContinue reading “CCAR Statement on Anat Hoffman’s Arrest at the Kotel”