Aryeh Ben David

Dec 4, 2023 | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Aryeh Ben David

It is now the 59th day of the war. Sandra, my wife, and I have had five kids in uniform. One son and four sons-in-law. Two in and out of Gaza. We’ve moved to Tel Aviv to help out with the grandkids. Most of us are glued to the headlines, the latest breaking news. It is exceedingly difficult to find the emotional bandwidth to go deeper.

Nov 7, 2023 | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Aryeh Ben David

Recently an Ayeka participant expressed outrage over the world’s reaction and media coverage to the horrors of October 7th. He lamented: “How can the world so easily ignore, forgive or condone what Hamas did to us on October 7?? It is utterly bewildering and breaks my heart. It infuriates me. I want to scream to the world, ‘Have you gone completely mad?’ I want to change the entire world’s opinion of us and our situation. What can I do to fight this madness, to stop it and eliminate it”.

May 26, 2023 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Jérémy Kagan |Aryeh Ben David |Mike Comins

Review By – May 23, 2023 In this deeply mov­ing new book, Michael Strass­feld — a retired pul­pit rab­bi — is both wor­ried and cau­tious­ly opti­mistic about the fate of lib­er­al Judaism in the twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry. He views Judaism as an his­tor­i­cal­ly evolv­ing civ­i­liza­tion, which reflects the influ­ence of Mordechai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionism.