My Jewish Learning: Articles By Rabbi Irving Greenberg

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Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg was the president of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation and founding president of CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He also is the author of For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity (2004, Jewish Publication Society).

Yitzhak Rabin & The Ethic of Jewish Power

Lessons learned from the assassination
Early Proposals for Holocaust Commemoration

Would Yom haShoah be associated with other tragedies, connected to heroism--or stand on its own?
The Covenant & God

God, too, is bound by this divine agreement.
Where Was God?

The "hidden God" of the Purim story can serve as a model for God's role in the modern world.
Defining Hanukkah: Pluralism

Hanukkah represents the struggle to follow one's values and religion in a pluralistic world that often demands uniformity.
Liberating Life

The High Holidays focus on death so that we may renew our lives.
A Communal Mourning

Re-enacting the sorrow felt by those who survived the destruction of the Temple
Passover (Pesach) & Spring

There is a theological explanation for why Passover occurs in the spring.
Unmasking the Purim Heroes

Were Mordecai and Esther assimilated Jews?
First Liberation, Then What?

Sukkot celebrates the challenges of everyday life.