Shawn Aron Weiss, at The Blogs

Shawn Aron Weiss

Mar 1, 2026, 5:57 PM

I God, in My grace, have summoned you, And I have grasped you by the hand. I created you, and appointed you A covenant people, a light of the nations — Opening eyes deprived of light, Rescuing prisoners from confinement, From the dungeons those...

Oct 19, 2025, 5:34 AM

Unprecedentedness

We live in uncertain, unpredictable times. Reality seems to be shifting daily beneath our feet, regardless of who we are and what presumptions about the world and the nature of reality we harbor within us, no matter if we...

Oct 7, 2025, 11:11 PM

Two Years On

Has twenty-four months ever felt so long? Has a (relatively) small scale conflict ever transformed the globe in such immediate, obvious, and irreversible ways? The fact that there are living Israeli hostages still in captivity, as of this writing,...

May 24, 2025, 9:32 PM

The Killing of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim

The killing of two Israeli Embassy staff members, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, by a radical left-wing activist earlier this week outside an American Jewish Committee event in Washington DC, should serve as a wake-up call to all American...

Aug 30, 2024, 11:55 PM

Blessing and Curse

It is said Moshe said to the people that Hashem said: “See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin upon you this day;...

Jul 26, 2024, 12:41 AM

In Defense of Netanyahu’s Speech

As a pro-Israel, anti-Netanyahu, Democratic-voting, moderate American Jew who once said to his father-in-law, long before the massacre of October 7th, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “the worst thing to ever happen to the modern state of Israel,”...

Jul 22, 2024, 6:14 AM

On Zion, Revisited

Martin Buber’s On Zion has been sitting on my shelf, unread, for a number of years. It seems fitting then that the first time I read it was in my hotel room in Jerusalem on a recent trip to...

Jul 19, 2024, 12:37 AM

On the Idea of a Jewish Golden Age

In the wake of the October 7th massacre and subsequent outbreak of anti-Zionist, anti-Israel sentiment throughout the US, there has been much talk about the end of the Jewish American Golden Age. This Golden Age, the thinking goes, lasted...

About Me

SA Weiss is a rabbinical student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles. He is a fellow with the Sinai Temple Israel Center Fellowship and a current fellow with the Leffell/AIPAC Fellowship. His essay "Philo and Rav Kook: On the Harmony of Creation and the Creation of Harmony" was published in the Winter 2024-2025 issue of Masorti: The New Journal of Conservative Judaism. He lives with his wife and children in Los Angeles.

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