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Yoav Ende

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May 20, 2026, 3:21 PM

What Torah will we receive this year?

At the Hannaton Educational Center. (courtesy)

We must choose the Torah that perceives Divinity throughout the world and not one that teaches contempt for everything that is not Jewish

Oct 20, 2025, 7:43 PM

Legacy of a Lone Soldier: Michael’s Story Lives on

In 1968, an 18-year-old Canadian named Michael Greenberg first arrived at Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu. He had come not in search of adventure, but in search of identity -- a search for connection to the Land of Israel and the...

Mar 27, 2024, 2:39 PM

An unfair attack on Rabbi Angela Buchdahl

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl speaks during a Hanukkah reception with US President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House in Washington, December 11, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/ Pool via AP)

We can't tolerate murderous terrorists or ignore our people's pain, but we can keep our hearts open to the suffering of others

Feb 14, 2024, 8:46 AM

Is our hope not yet lost?

The days of war continue, and the reservists bring a spirit of "togetherness" and a demand for change. However, in the political realm, there is a failure even to hold a discussion about "the day after." At its core,...

Nov 14, 2023, 12:41 AM

Muslim religious leadership, where are you?

(iStock/tzahiV)

Imams in Israel who are silent in the face of terrorism only harm and desecrate the image of God in our world

May 18, 2022, 3:24 PM

To keep Israel safe, it is time to break the walls

Scenes of rioting in Lod, May 2021. (Twitter/ via Jewish News)

We must see things as they are, instead of how we would like them to be; we must seek compromise, out of respect for each of Israeli society’s many diverse parts

Jul 30, 2020, 9:46 AM

Destruction from Hate, Rebuilding with Love

How an Israeli-American online dialogue sponsored by the Hannaton Educational Center grappled with racial justice during the Nine Days Tisha B’Av represents our annual reflection, as a people, on the harm we do to ourselves as a society and the...

Jun 5, 2020, 7:21 AM

Disputes for the sake of heaven

Text-inspired dialogue dealing with the role of conflict as a lens for understanding Jewish values is particularly meaningful these days at Midreshet Hannaton. Here’s why. I live thousands of miles from the United States, but when I see the photos...

May 8, 2019, 1:07 PM

The not-so-promised Jewish state

Illustrative. Yom HaZikaron.

Israel is not divinely guaranteed, leaving us to continually ask the question: What must we do to be worthy of this privilege?

Nov 15, 2016, 7:18 AM

A real, shared path: What I’ve learned from living in the divided society in which I live

Almost 20 years ago in Israel, Bibi Netanyahu ran against Shimon Peres – and won. To some, this was a catastrophe, an earthquake, destruction; to others, it was a new sun rising, a new hope, euphoria. How can it be possible...

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About Me

A Masorti rabbi, Rabbi Yoav Ende is the Executive Director of the Hannaton Educational Center, located on Kibbutz Hannaton in the Lower Galilee.

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