Shawn Aron Weiss, at The Blogs

Aug 30, 2024, 11:55 PM

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

Shawn Weiss is a rabbinical student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles and a Fellow with the Sinai Temple Israel Center Fellowship. His essay "Philo and Rav Kook: On the Harmony of Creation and the Creation of Harmony" is forthcoming at Masorti. He lives in Southern California.

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