Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger
Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger lives in Alon Shvut, Gush Etzion, and serves as the Director of International Relations for Roots/Judur/Shorashim, the Israeli Palestinian Local Initiative for Understanding, Nonviolence, and Transformation - https://www.friendsofroots.net/. He also frequently travels to Dallas Texas where he serves as the Executive Director of the Jewish Studies Initiative. His website is www.ravhanan.org
Articles by Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger
Reconciliation Within the Family and Beyond the Family
The Book of Genesis is nothing if not a story of dysfunctional families.Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Hagar, Sarah ...
A Small Victory for Dialogue Between Enemies
All eyes followed me in as I walked down the center aisle of the lecture hall. The members of the ...
What Does It Mean To Be A Blessing?
Blessings are not meant to flow into us, but rather to flow through us.
Confounding Conformity
The story of the Tower of Babel makes a case for a multiplicity of languages and cultures.
Living With Death
Death is a problem. It is death that seems to suck the meaning out of life. If it is all ...
To Repair the World – And Not Just the Jewish People!
One of the things I most love about the High Holidays is their focus on universality. During the rest of ...
Judaism in a Secular Age – Just What God Wanted!
Six weeks from now when the world and the Jewish People experience another Rosh Hashanah, we will stand before God ...