Rabbi Grumet, Associate Editor of Ten Da'at, is Associate principal of the Torah Academy of Bergen County Ten Da'at, A Journal of Jewish Education, Vol. X:1, Adar 5757, Spring 1997 I am often haunted by two conversations dating back to my first year as a teacher. The...
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 Rennert Women's Institute for Torah Studies, 2003. I. Talmudic Sources Jewish law generally frees women from...
Prepared by: Rivkah Lambert Adler, Ph.D. , Director of Adult Education Center for Jewish Education Print Materials – Adult Jewish Learning Internet Materials – Adult Jewish Learning Internet Resources – National Adult Learning Programs Internet Resources –...
Davka software Developers and distributors of Judaic software in Jewish history, Hebrew language, Jewish customs and traditions, and more. Hebrew For Me These online activities teach Hebrew vocabulary to beginners, including younger students. Activities include: a...
I. What is a Jewish ethical discussion? Ethical discussions are designed to challenge participants to clarify or their thoughts. The process of clarification often involves listen to different opinions, rethinking and reevaluating one's own preconceptions, or...
Published in the Times Educational Supplement November 2002 The Garden of Eden, the ultimate paradise as described in the Bible, is hardly the place that, on first glance, would seem to satisfy the demands of the Government’s Literacy strategy. But Eden,...
A new type of Jewish school is on the rise that is helping to erode a century-old consensus about the way American Jews educate their children. Peter Beinart explores this new phenomenon in The Atlantic. Click here.
The Jewish Virtual Library explores the values of Conservative Judaism. If dogmas or doctrines are the propositional language of a theological system, core values are the felt commitments of lived religion, the refraction of what people practice and profess. To...
Click here to read Shalom Berger's 1997 Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University, doctoral thesis.
Reprinted from Ten Da’at Vol. III No. 3 pp.7-8 Taking into account the place of Torah study in the Jewish weltanschauung, the outstanding issue representing a substantial difference between men and women is constituted by the exemption ofwomen from Torah study....
