At the request of many readers, and as a follow up to last week’s
Thoughts to Ponder, “Je Suis Charlie: The Problem of Jewish Denial,”
I am once again sending out the following essay,
which was published in the Jerusalem Post (May 1, 2013) and in the Hebrew edition of Makor Rishon (July 26, 2013).
As Europe and other countries around the world become aggressively more anti-Semitic, and
Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo is the Founder and Dean of the David Cardozo Academy and the Bet Midrash of Avraham Avinu in Jerusalem. A sought-after lecturer on the international stage for both Jewish and non-Jewish audiences, Rabbi Cardozo is the author of 13 books and numerous articles in both English and Hebrew. He heads a Think Tank focused on finding new Halachic and philosophical approaches to dealing with the crisis of religion and identity amongst Jews and the Jewish State of Israel. Hailing from the Netherlands, Rabbi Cardozo is known for his original and often fearlessly controversial insights into Judaism. His ideas are widely debated on an international level on social media, blogs, books and other forums.