Sublime

Judaism’s “possibilism” about human nature, its conviction that we can choose the good even if we often don’t.

Au nom de ce passé de persécution dont la Shoah est le point culminant, injonction est faite à tous les juifs et, à plus forte raison, à l’État d’Israël, d’assurer la survie du peuple juif. C’est le 614e commandement, comme l’a formulé avec solennité le philosophe Emil Fackenheim. Il s’ajoute aux 613 que compte le judaïsme. Ce n’est pas Dieu qui

There is simply no coordinated effort to educate the Jewish people in a way that empowers them.

EVEN AS SOME ISRAELIS were growing more interested in their religious roots, much of Israeli society was at the very same time worried about other religious phenomena in the Jewish state. The chief rabbinate, an institution that the Ottomans and British had established and shaped, was becoming ever more reviled. As the Haredim had become

shifting the operative frame of the American Jewish experience from one of institutional preservation to one of communal empowerment.

The prophets count on us to be appalled by injustice.