This article compiles some Pe’ninei Torah (Pearls of Torah) from a variety of topics, to provide insights to Torah students. To read the article, click here.
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Responding to a Death in the Yeshivah High School Family: A Handbook/Checklist for Yeshivah Educators
Dr. Wolowelsky is Dean of the Faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush The first edition of this Handbook was published in 1987 by TEN, the Torah Education Network, a joint project of the Educators Council of America, the Torah Education Department of the World Zionist...
What is the "Revadim" Method?
Reprinted here with permission. Jewish schools in Israel and the Diaspora dedicate many hours and resources to study of Talmud, but more than seventy percent of all students are still unable to learn a page of Talmud on their own at the end of secondary school...
Evolution: A Theory that Failed to Evolve
Evolution: A Theory that Failed to Evolve Update for Torah Schools 5748 By: Moses D. Tendler This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 2, 1, 1987, pp. 3-6. Appears here with permission. I. In January 1982 (McLean vs. Arkansas Board of Education) the...
Judaism and Darwinian Evolution
This article originally appeared in Tradition, vol. 29, 1, 1994. Appears here with permission. INTRODUCTION The question of science versus religion, a subsection of the Torah uMadda debate, has been widely discussed and disputed. Many of the arguments for and against...
Teaching Evolution in Yeshivah High Schools
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 10, 1, 1997. Appears here with permission. Some yeshivah educators find troublesome the section on evolution taught in the regular biology course required for a high school diploma. Convinced that evolutionary...
Child Abuse: A School Meets a Crisis
Child Abuse: A School Meets a Crisis By William S. Altshul Originally appeared in Ten Da'at vol. 2,3 1988, pp. 13-14. Appears here with permission. It has been over a year since our community was rocked with the news that our upper school General Studies principal, a...
By the Sweat of Your Brow: Approaching Kashrut from a Pluralistic Perspective
Approaching Kashrut from a Pluralistic Perspective. Click here.
Knowledge and Attitudes of Post High School Jewish-American Orthodox Students in Israel
This article describes an empirical research that was conducted among a random sample of yeshiva/seminary students, in order to determine the basic knowledge level of the students regarding issues of conflict and their attitudes regarding pro-Israel activism. To...
A Test of Jewish Literacy
Preamble Several years ago the editors of Generation Magazine, an excellent but now-defunct journal produced by young Australian Jewish academics and writers, asked a number of Jewish educators to prepare a “mock” examination for Year 12 students completing their...