Throughout the ages, the outward expressions of that inner, natural hatred that has always haunted the Jews have changed. Regimes and ideologies rose and fell, but antisemitism persists. Each time the excuses for hating Jews become presented in different shapes…
In recent years, we have observed increasing hostility between Israelis and Jews who strongly criticize the Jewish people and the State of Israel. If accusations against the State of Israel could endanger the status of Jews, self-hating Jews would not…
When we analyze how the process of Jewish self-hatred takes place, it is the common understanding that the rejection of one’s identity can be triggered by external factors such as antisemitism and the resulting desire to distance oneself from negative…
Much has been written about antisemitism as the eternal hatred against Jews; far less attention has been devoted to the challenging self-examination of when the antisemites are Jews themselves and why this paradox occurs. Jewish self-hatred is the unique phenomenon…
There is no example in all of humanity of a people or a nation that so desperately pursues to undermine and inflict pain on themselves as the Jewish people. As if antisemitism had not given rise to enough enemies, history…
The matter of Jewish self-hatred deeply worries me. It is the reason why the nations of the world hate us: because we hate ourselves. As a Jew, I cannot stand by and passively witness how disunity has infected every corner…
The rising tide of anti-Israel sentiment in America, particularly within its prestigious universities, is indeed a cause for concern. Institutions like New York University, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, UC Berkeley, MIT and the University of Michigan, which are renowned for…
Many people have hated and continue to hate Jews because they possess a certain tool that can determine whether or not they aim themselves at the single force of love, bestowal and connection that guides reality. Why is the Jews’…
Indeed, many great Jews were not originally Jewish. For example, Rabbi Akiva was born a non-Jew, but became the Jewish people’s leading teacher in his time. King David, renowned as Israel’s greatest king, had a non-Jewish great grandmother, Ruth. Also,…
Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag, nicknamed “Baal HaSulam” (the “Master of the Ladder”) for his monumental multi-volume “Sulam” (“Ladder”) commentary on The Book of Zohar, is widely renowned as the greatest Kabbalist of the 20th century. Other than The Zohar commentary, he invested immensely in…
While we solemnly reflect on the atrocities of the past this Holocaust Remembrance Day, we would be wise to also look into the deeper spiritual significance of the Jewish people in today’s world in order to prevent any future such…
The Jewish people originated not on a biological foundation, but on an ideological one. Around 4,000 years ago, a group of Babylonians gathered around Abraham and followed his method of uniting above differences and divisions in order to achieve the…