Professional Development Resources: Holidays

Rabbi Mordechai Breuer and Modern Orthodox Biblical Commentary- Study of Tanakh

This article originally appeared in Tradition, vol. 33, 3, 1999, pp. 6 ff. Appears here with permission. Although Tanakh is the word of God,... Read more

Addition to the Hagaddah shel Pesach by David Mescheloff

Click here to see related source: https://files.lookstein.org/resource/hagada1.pdf Several years ago, at a Shabbat retreat in Jerusalem of the Bar-Ilan Talmud Department, I presented an addition... Read more

The Four Children

The Seder provides a model for intergenerational storytelling. In this selection from “The Family Participation Haggadah: A Different Night”, Noam Zion shares artistic interpretations... Read more

Women’s Megilla Reading

This article appears in Traditions and Celebrations for the Bat Mitzvah edited by Ora Wiskind Elper.[1] Published by Urim Publications and MaTaN: The Sadie... Read more

The Miracle of the Lights

Also available at Yeshivat Har Etzion Virtual Beit Midrash. “What is Chanuka? Our Rabbis taught: On the twenty-fifth of Kislev begin the eight days... Read more

Sefer Hatorah Hapatuach- The Open Scroll

This is an ambitious Simchat Torah educational experience which we started in 5760 in Havurat Tel Aviv. We unroll the entire Sefer Torah and... Read more

A Different Sukkot Program- General Description

Reclaiming Sukkot: Planning an experiential program,shifting a paradigm, and a different twist on kiruv Zig Ziglar, the famous sales-trainer, warns his students: “Don ‘t... Read more