Levi Brackman’s Website

...tter of life and death. The Torah says (Leviticus 19:16): “You shall not stand idly by [the shedding of] your fellow's blood.” Maimonides (Laws of Murder 1:13) explains this verse to mean that one who is able to save another and do......

The prisoner exchange between Israel and Hizbullah was so painful and disturbing that, in my eternal search for optimism, I tried to find some light and hope. At first I thought that at least there is some type of common ground being show here.The Is...

Tony Blair’s moral clarity and compassion are just what the Mideast needs Before I decide which political party or candidate to vote for I always try and compare their policies and positions with the stated views of the Torah. The politician o...

We Jews paid with the lives of six million of our brothers and sisters last time we waited for the world to step in and save us—this time that type of waiting is not an option The Iranian nuclear threat is uppermost in the minds of many Israeli...

How often do we pass up a win-win situation and go for the lose-lose option on account of our ego?   We often see this happening on a micro scale - in the lives of those around us - and it has occurred on the world stage time and again over the...

The question is stark. Surely the commandment to kill the Amolekites equates with Nazism, Bin Laden and the evil perpetrators of the September 11 attack! This week selebrates the anniversary of a reprehensible act of mass murder. The September 11th 2...

The Iranian Government’s insolent march towards nuclear capability together with its intolerant and belligerent president has presented the world with a dangerous crisis. On the one hand the United States seems to be completely taken up with th...

In the world today we seem to be facing tremendous challenges. There seems to be two types of views the western more secular view on the one hand and the religious fundamentalist dictatorial view on the other. I know that these are sweeping generaliz...

The recent terror attack in London was unique--it was carried out by British-born fundamentalists, not foreigners. After suffering years of IRA-sponsored terrorism, the question people here in Britain are asking is why people would want to blow their...

There are no words to adequately describe the horror caused by the tsunami. Watching the disaster unfolding on the film taken by an amateur cameraman in Aceh, Indonesia, left me shaking. How quickly the terror struck! People were going about their da...

So the war in Iraq seemed to be quick and definitive. Now nearly three months on, the almost daily attacks on coalition troops, the deep resentment by the Iraqis and the inability to find any weapons of mass destruction has caused many of us to revis...