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约瑟夫，光明节，和同化的困境

Dec 23, 2022 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Miketz | Hanukkah

Ruminations about assimilation come naturally to Jews in North America during the winter holiday season. How much should a parent insist that Hanukkah is part of public school celebrations that give students a heavy dose of Christmas? How often should one remind store clerks who innocently ask Jewish children which gifts they hope to receive from Santa this year that there are other faiths observed in our communities, 和其他节日? 异族通婚的夫妇很熟悉在家里养棵圣诞树的话题, 或者去做午夜弥撒, or allowing their kids to open gifts Christmas morning under the tree at their cousins’ home. 光明节的故事是这种思考的完美刺激, 尤其是在阅读的时候, 正如一些历史学家所做的, 而不是犹太人和专制政府之间的冲突, but as a dispute among Jews themselves over which Greek customs are acceptable and which cross the line to assimilation or apostasy.

字斟句酌

Oct 7, 2022 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Ha'azinu

Ha 'azinu在两个方面是非凡的:它说了什么，以及它选择如何说. 我在这里的重点是后者, 但是凯时国际平台app前者，我们要注意, 这是他对以色列人的最后一次讲话，然后是一系列的告别祝福, 摩西回顾了他族人的过去, present, and future. He begins by calling on the God who had called Israel into being and called him to God’s service. 他提醒以色列人，上帝已经选择了他们，并且仍然关心他们的福祉. 他预言，尽管上帝和摩西说了这么多，做了这么多, 以色列人会抛弃上帝, 就像过去一样. 上帝会惩罚他们，就像过去一样，但绝不会完全毁灭. 上帝和以色列最终会和解.

美国的犹太神学，今天与明天

May 23, 2022 By Arnold M. Eisen |公众活动视频

Professor Eisen explores recent developments in Jewish thought about God and what God requires of us as Jews and human beings against the background of past Jewish thought, 非犹太思想家的最新研究, 以及艾森教授自己在新冠肺炎时代的神学思考.

在盟约的指引下

Jan 8, 2021 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Shemot

有一个奇妙的皮疹 Pesikta Derav Kahana that suggests a profound relationship between the arrival of the manna described in Parashat Beshallah and the giving of the Ten Commandments recounted in the following parashah, Yitro. 就像吗哪的滋味，以色列人各人尝都不一样, 尤西拉比教授, so each was enabled according to his or her particular capacity to hear the Divine Word differently at Sinai (12:25).

危机与变革时期的反思

Jun 15, 2020 By Arnold M. Eisen |公众活动视频|视频讲座

A conversation between Chancellor Arnold Eisen and Rabbi Micah Peltz of Temple Beth Sholom (Cherry Hill, 凯时国际平台appCOVID-19的挑战, 种族歧视, 以及当今世界和犹太社区面临的其他问题.

冠状病毒时期的逾越节

Apr 3, 2020 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary |逾越节|安息日哈加多

一年、一周、一天的变化是多么大啊. 去年的这个时候, 这反映了美国和欧洲一段时间内不断上升的反犹太主义, 我写道:“你们在逾越节餐桌上的讨论将不同于以往所有逾越节.” This year, 其中许多讨论将以虚拟方式进行, 出席逾越节家宴的人可能仅限于亲密的家人或朋友. 许多人可能独自坐在逾越节家宴的餐桌前. 瘟疫正在向我们袭来, 袭击世界上的每一个地方，不考虑国家边界或宗教. 这个假期将会不一样，因为 we 是不一样的.

调平场

May 24, 2019 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Behar

在费城长大, 我经常和同学一起去独立厅, where I swelled with pride to see that the Liberty Bell bore engraved words from the Torah:

 "在全地向所有居民宣告自由.” (Lev. 25:10)

匹兹堡之后的逾越节

Apr 12, 2019 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary |逾越节|安息日哈加多

“今天晚上和以往的晚上有什么不同呢??”

不管你是20多岁, a Millennial, a Boomer, or a member of the Greatest Generation; whether you are attending your first Passover seder this year or the latest in a long line of sedarim, chances are good that the discussion at your seder table will be different from all Passovers past. 自去年逾越节以来，北美的犹太社区发生了明显的变化, shaken to its core by the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and a significant spike in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States as well as in Europe that seem part of a larger outburst of racism and prejudice. 

为上帝创造的神圣工作

Feb 15, 2019 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Tetzavveh

The most important headline of the week (and perhaps the year) did not appear in the top right column of the New York Times last Thursday. That spot—traditionally reserved for the lead story—was given over to the troubles facing the governor of Virginia, 一桩丑闻可能会在几周内被解决和遗忘. 但事实并非如此，“有记录以来最热的5年都是过去5年。, 19个最温暖的年份中有18个发生在2001年之后.” This story is likely to shape human history—and the life of the planet—for many years to come; it now seems indisputable that “the quickly rising temperatures . . . 这符合科学界的共识，即气候变化是由人类活动引起的.”

一堵墙“在他们的右边，在他们的左边”

Jan 18, 2019 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Beshallah

For many years my favorite line in Parashat Beshallah—the section of Torah that I studied at age 11 while learning to chant with proper musical notation from the scroll—was the Israelites’ sarcastic complaint to Moses when they found themselves trapped between Pharaoh’s army advancing from behind them, 大海阻挡了他们前进的道路.

What? 埃及没有足够多的坟墓，所以你把我们带到荒野去死? (Exod. 14:11)

两个国家在子宫里挣扎

Nov 9, 2018 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Toledot

The map of the United States is divided almost equally between red and blue as I write this column on the morning after the 2018 midterm elections. The Republicans have increased their majority in the Senate, and lost their majority in the House. 许多比赛因为势均力敌而无法在深夜宣布胜负, and were decided in the end by the narrowest of margins—even as the two major parties and their supporters apparently stand farther apart from one another than at any time in recent memory. 调查结果证实了一个普遍的观点，即美国人从未像现在这样团结.

兼而有之:保守犹太教250年，80分钟

Aug 31, 2018 By Arnold M. Eisen |播客或广播节目

Learn how 保守犹太教 became what it is today in this accessible mini-series adaptation of Chancellor Eisen’s semester-long class for JTS students.

带着Torah踏上人生之旅

Jul 20, 2018 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Devarim

“Hear, O Israel,申命记一遍又一遍地宣称, 动词总是用第二人称单数. The Torah wants every one of us to listen carefully, whoever we are, at whatever stage of life. It knows that each person will hear its words somewhat differently—and will perhaps listen differently—this day than in the past.

政治是犹太人的天职

May 18, 2018 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Bemidbar

伯米巴之书, which aims to help its readers navigate the chaotic wilderness in which the Children of Israel have always lived and wandered, deals more directly than any other book of the Torah with what the great sociologist Max Weber called “Politics as a Vocation.”

是时候重新思考以色列与海外移民的关系了吗?

Apr 19, 2018 By Arnold M. Eisen |公众活动视频|视频讲座 | Yom Hazikaron-Yom Ha'atzma'ut

A 挑衅的讨论 与校长阿诺德·M. Eisen and Dr. 希勒尔·本·萨森 about how Israel and Diaspora Jewry influence each other—and how we can develop a new vision for working together.

以色列70岁:弥合分歧

Apr 17, 2018 By Arnold M. Eisen

四个孩子的四个新问题

Mar 23, 2018 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary |安息日哈加多

Here’s a challenge for the rising generations seated around the seder table this year: make sure your Four Questions address the ways in which things truly are 2018年与过去的逾越节有所不同.

利未记凯时国际平台app爱

Mar 16, 2018 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Vayikra

今年夏天，我和家人在阿拉斯加的一艘小游轮上, when a couple whom I had come to like and admire asked me with great respect a question that Jews have been been hearing from Christians for many centuries, one that had been put to me more than once by students at Stanford: “How can Jews worship the God of the Old Testament, 充满了苛刻的判断和愤怒, 所以不像新约中的上帝, 谁在爱中呼唤人类?”

召唤一个民族

Jan 5, 2018 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Shemot

Two very different stories about who we are as Jews are forcefully presented in the opening chapters of the Book of Exodus. 其中一个，在这本书的希伯来语标题中被捕捉到， Shemot 或“名字”——宣称我们是以色列的子民:a nation, a people, defined in the first instance and forever after by our ancestors and the paths they travelled. 另一个故事告诉我们，我们是摩西的门徒, 书中的人类主人公, and, like him, are 神的仆人 是谁从荆棘中呼唤摩西，在西奈与我们立约呢.

现代以色列的部落能否共存?

Nov 29, 2017 By Arnold M. Eisen |公众活动视频

纪念联合国巴勒斯坦分治方案70周年, 这是以色列建国的重要一步, 以色列社会内部的分裂威胁到国家的未来. 以色列世俗人士之间的分歧能弥合吗, 国家宗教, ultra-Orthodox, 和阿拉伯公民? 他们能否相互沟通，共同努力，建立新的伙伴关系? 在实现这一目标的过程中，关心散居海外的犹太人的角色是什么?