Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Nathan Lopes Cardozo is dean of the David Cardozo Academy in Jerusalem.

 An Israeli soldier with a prayer shawl seen during a morning prayer near his tank near the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 25, 2023

A Jewish outlook on life can help Israel win war against Hamas - opinion

 Children in school are seen around a menorah ahead of Hanukkah.

Hanukkah: Jews should be proud of what they are hated for - opinion

 An illustrative photo of a man blowing a shofar, a ceremonial ram's horn, which is done repeatedly on Rosh Hashanah.

Rosh Hashanah: The courage to blow the shofar and reach unreachable heights - opinion


Rabbi explains how Jews can win every Olympic soccer world cup - opinion

With a keen understanding of the following factors, we Jews will be able to win every Olympic World Cup. 

 In Jerusalem’s Teddy Stadium.

Do Israel's soldiers know what they're fighting for? - opinion

For too long, many of us have told our children that to be an Israeli soldier is the pinnacle of Jewishness and Zionism. The truth is that it is not, and it never was. 

 IDF soldier prays at the Western Wall.

Putting God on trial: The problem of divine collateral damage - opinion

Dr. Chaim Toldeche and Elie Wiesel were right: God must stand trial and must repent for the creation of evil in the world. 

 DOES GOD stand trial? Inside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem.

Israel-Hamas War: Misunderstanding reality and inner peace - opinion

Do science and rationality get in the way of understanding full reality, not getting to the core where inner peace resides?

 MAJESTIC SUNFLOWERS.

Hamas October 7 massacre was God stopping an Israeli civil war - opinion

Without any claim to prophecy, I cannot escape the feeling that what is happening at this moment is not just another Israeli-Palestinian war but something radically different. 

 ISRAELIS OF all stripes celebrate the release of IDF soldier Ori Megidish (not pictured) from Hamas captivity, outside her Kiryat Gat home, Oct. 30.

Can war with Hamas help Israel decide what it is? - opinion

We have only one way to comprehend the positive meaning of this otherwise apparently negative anomaly: the way of faith and the assignment of a universal moral-religious mission.

 IT WAS then the Jew was hurled into the abyss of the nations: A cave in Hurvat Madras; these caves have been found full of the belongings of Bar Kochba’s people.

Rosh Hashanah: Fairy tales and the secrets of the shofar

What is the point of trying every year, only to discover that we’ve returned to where we started? This can easily turn into torture.

 THE SHOFAR: Incomprehensible sounds.

Israeli politics and the dangers of freedom, radical otherness - opinion

Only when we recognize that, as proud Jews, we are rooted in nearly 4,000 years of unconventional history and a sacred mission, will we be able to succeed.

 ‘FREEDOM CAN only truly be kept in check and flourish when it is rooted in an identity.’

Cardinal Newman and self-conscience: Commentary on Israeli politics

Most people get confused when speaking about tolerance. They often use this word when in fact they mean “apathy.”

 RENDERING OF Cardinal John Henry Newman: ‘In matters of truth, one makes a choice.’

Hanukkah: To pretend or to be really religious?

For religious Jews, Judaism’s constant demand to follow Halacha (Jewish law) may give the impression that Judaism depends solely on the need to “observe.”

 LIGHTING THE ‘hanukkiah’ should be a transforming act.