This group has sadly determined the current State of Religious Zionism. This romantic and sanitized image of Rav Kook as any model, let alone a leading light for the few remnant champions of ...

Shiloh and Jerusalem represent two complementary forces – engagement with the world and preservation of identity – that drive ...

ICR Company announces this morning (Wednesday) that the plan to build 256 housing units in the 12th district in Netanya has ...

Recently, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Eretz Yisrael, has returned to public discussion. Former MK Tehila Friedman, in a featured Times of Israel blog ...

Rav Kook asked the question as to why the portion dealing with the priestly garments, was the one chosen to omit Moshe’s name. The answer was hinted to by the Midrash that tells us that Moshe ...

Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger is a member in good standing of the Rabbinical Council of America, the leading Orthodox institution ...

Several weeks before the Six Day War broke out, Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook zts”l told his students about the emotional upheaval he experienced when the partition plan for Eretz Yisrael was announced ...

Rav Kook asks how it was possible that such an idea was not already known. It is not possible that the Torah could leave out such an important detail as the appointment of judges. He gives a few ...

When Rabbi Hutner was in Slabodka in Hebron from 1925 to 1929 he would visit Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) in Jerusalem and when he returned to Jerusalem as a married man in 1933 ...

were introduced by Rabbi Zev Yavetz in 1890 and later endorsed by figures like Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook. The holiday’s deeper meaning lies in its connection to Eretz Yisrael as a sign of ...