Talmud has been studied by students for centuries. Yet the last century has seen rapid change in Jewish community and life. These changes have impacted on students and teachers, and are cause for examining the method teachers use to teach Talmud to today’s students....
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This article originally appeared in Ten Da’at. Republished with permission of the author. The following was presented at a meeting of the Educational Liaison Committee of the Ramaz School, New York City. The purpose of this presentation is to articulate,...
Reprinted from Le’ela, June 2001, no. 51 (Dr. Wolowelsky is Associate Editor of the MeOtzar HoRav Series: Selected Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and Dean of the Faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush. He is a member of the Professional Advisory Committee of...
This article is a handbook/checklist for educators in Jewish Community Junior and Senior High Schools, in regards to responding to a death in the School. To read the article, click here.
Click here to see related source: https://files.lookstein.org/resource/jewish_videos.pdf Many years ago, I developed a new methodology for internalizing and teaching Jewish values based on specific discussion techniques. In addition, I have developed a curriculum...
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 of Chanuka; we may not eulogize on these days nor may we fast on them. When the Greeks entered the Temple, they defiled...
Dr Leon Bernstein has been teaching for nearly twenty years in a variety of schools. His experience spans both State Comprehensives and Private schools, religious and secular, mixed and single-sexed. He has been Head of Modern Languages, Head of Upper School and has...
This article originally appeared in Tradition v.12 #2 Fall, 1971 The ideal of Imitatio Dei occupies a central place in the religious and ethical thought of Judaism.1 Man, who is created in the image of God,2 is enjoined to pattern his life after the attributes of God....
"A great prince in Israel has fallen today" - II Samuel 33:33 This article originally appeared in Tradition 28:1. Surely, such a prince and such a giant, who became a legend in his own lifetime, deserves an appropriate eulogy. I therefore begin with a confession: I...
