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Do You Know What Your Daughters Are Reading? |
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Written by Tzvi Fishman
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Monday, 20 November 2006 |
Since my novels and short stories have found a wide readership in the religious Zionist community in Israel, I am periodically asked to speak to students about creative writing. Unfortunately, our youth, and many of our educators, do not know what Jewish literature is all about.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 22 January 2007 )
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One Parade Down; One To Go! |
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Written by Tzvi Fishman
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Friday, 10 November 2006 |
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Certainly the homosexual "Parade of Pride" is a
despicable idea that has no place in the Holy Land. It should not have been
closeted into a stadium for security reasons. Rather, any type of public
celebration should have been banned outright for security reasons, as it
written in the Torah, "For the L-rd
your G-d walks in the midst of your camp to save you, and to conquer your enemy
from before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that He see no unchaste
thing in thee and turn away from thee" (Devarim, 23:15).
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 12 November 2006 )
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Kosher Concubines – The Question Of Jewish Sexuality And Religious Youth |
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Written by Michael
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Monday, 30 October 2006 |
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There is an old adage in the world of academia that
says, "publish or perish." In the competitive world of university faculties,
professors have to find ways to be among the campus stars in order to ensure
their tenures. Perhaps this is what led Professor Tzvi Zohar to write his
controversial article, "Unwed Couples According to Jewish Law," which proposes
to deal with the problem of sex between unmarried religious young people by
renewing the biblical institution of the "pilegish," a sort of kosher
concubine.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 10 November 2006 )
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My Life-Changing Encounter with A Kabbalist Elder |
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Written by Michael
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Thursday, 06 July 2006 |
My Life-Changing Encounter with A Kabbalist Elder by Tzvi Fishman
Published February 21, 2006 on IsraelNationalNews It is eleven o’clock, Thursday night in Bat Yam, and the Rebbe Meir Baal HaNess Synagogue is already packed with five hundred people awaiting the arrival of the righteous Tzaddik. Upstairs, the women’s section is full. It is the middle of Shovavim, and there is a tangible electricity in the air. At exactly eleven-thirty, the kabbalist, Rabbi Eliahu Leon Levi, arrives with a surrounding wall of students. With his head lowered humbly toward the ground and his hands clasped before him, the Rabbi makes his way through the crowd to the stage set up in front of the ark, where rabbis and other elderly kabbalists stand waiting to greet him. I rise along with the others, not as a curious journalist, but as a student of Rabbi Leon.
The Rabbi motions for the crowd to sit down. The music stops. “Please make room,” his powerful voice calls out over the loudspeaker. In his youth, he served as cantor in the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv, yet the strength and beauty of his voice hasn’t waned. “More people will be coming from Judea, Samaria and Hevron. Hurry. There isn’t time to waste.” |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 July 2006 )
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