Abraham Isaac Kook

A 1913 trip with Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.

Yedidya Sinclair, Chaim Brovender and and Jeffrey Saks
Oct. 16 2015 12:01AM

Reflections on the founder of Israel’s chief rabbinate.

Yehudah Mirsky
Aug. 25 2015 12:01AM

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, who served as the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine, is generally regarded as the intellectual progenitor of religious Zionism. Born. . .

Samuel Thrope
Oct. 15 2014 12:01AM

For a visionary rabbi in London, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 signified nothing less than the advent of the messianic era.

Yehudah Mirsky
Feb. 10 2014 4:30AM

Judaism recognizes vegetarianism as an ideal, wrote Israel's first chief rabbi, Abraham Isaac Kook, but Jews must not elevate the welfare of animals above that of human beings.

July 19 2013 12:00AM