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Jewish Renaissance Pioneers Archive
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Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan – Sefer Yetzirah and the Magic of Hebrew Letters
Posted on October 5, 2011 | No CommentsBy Nathan Roi After a fourteen-year delay, the venerable Sefer Yetzirah is being published with a commentary, in Hebrew translation, by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan zt”l, one of the greatest... -
Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Synagogue – from Padua Italy to Jerusalem
Posted on July 27, 2011 | No CommentsNathan Roi presents the story of Jewish Renaissance Pioneer Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal), author of “Path of the Just”, and relates how the Padua (Padova) Italy synagogue – where Ramchal... -
Shulamit Hareven – “Thirst” in the Desert
Posted on April 28, 2011 | No CommentsBy Nathan Roi Writer Shulamit Hareven taught her readers to read: Little but well. The best. “Tzimaon” – Thirst – her desert trilogy is an important example of concise, aesthetic... -
Buja Yogev – “Chief Rabbi” of Kibbutz Bet HaEmek
Posted on April 7, 2011 | No Comments“When I was 15 and living in Jerusalem I made a vow,” recounts Buja Yogev of Kibbutz Bet HaEmek, “I would live in a kibbutz when I grew up and... -
Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky: All Jews are Responsible for One Another
Posted on March 17, 2011 | No CommentsMemories of a Public Campaign Celebrating 25 Years of Freedom for Natan Sharansky When I began, in the early 1980s, to cover the campaign for Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky’s release for... -
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1887-1970)
Posted on February 10, 2011 | No CommentsBy Nathan Roi Moshe Nissim, Former Israeli Finance Minister and son of Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim, once told me that he would join his brother for Shabbat afternoon strolls to... -
Andre Neher (1914-1988)
Posted on February 2, 2011 | 1 CommentBy Nathan Roi Andre Neher (1914-1988), a student of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rabbi Yaakov Gordin, was one of the foremost French Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. His... -
Naomi Shemer (1930-2004)
Posted on January 20, 2011 | 1 CommentOn Naomi Shemer and the Song of the Grasses By Nathan Roi Israeli singer/songwriter Naomi Shemer may have been one of the first songwriters to integrate Jewish texts with modern... -
Hava Pinhas-Cohen
Posted on January 5, 2011 | 1 CommentBy Nathan Roi No person has visited the grave a loved-one – a dearly departed mother or father who melted away from them all of a sudden – without feeling... -
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)
Posted on December 29, 2010 | 2 CommentsBy Nathan Roi Twentieth century Jewish American philosopher Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel is one the rare men of faith whose personality transcended religious borders and touched the hearts of believers...