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).

Life And Love

Although priests cannot have any contact with death, exceptions are made for their immediate relatives, teaching that even the principle of treasuring life bows to love and family connections.
Yitzhak Rabin & The Ethic of Jewish Power

Lessons learned from the assassination
Joy Is A Religious Obligation

Jewish tradition recognizes Sukkot as a celebration and sharing of our material possessions.
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.