THE SPHINX AS A LEADER: A READING OF JUDGES 13-16 By: Shalom Carmy This article originally appeared in Tradition. I The scene is familiar: the chosen people oppressed, wayward, weak, they grope towards penitence. The stage is set: that peculiar expectancy, heralding...
Originally appeared in Ten Daโatย Volume XIII, Winter 2000 Background It has often been observed within the profession that there exists a relatively high turnover rate amongst male Orthodox Jewish teachers ("rebbes") in Jewish day schools. At conventions of Jewish...
This article is a Hebrew responsa that deals with the Halakhic implications of a man in space. ืืก"ื ืืื ืจืืืขื ื"ื ืืจ"ื ืชืฉืก"ื ืืจืืฉืืื ืืืื ืืจื ืื ืขืื ืืืื ืฆืื ืงืื ืืงืื ืฉืืื"ื ืฉืืื ืืืจืื, ืืืืจ ืืฉืืื ืืขื ืืื ืื ืืืช ืืื ืืืฉืจืื ืฉื ืืกืข ืืืืืื ืฉืืฆืื ืื ืฉืขื ืืืฆื ืืชืืืฃ ืืืืื ืืืื...
This article originally appeared in Tradition 9 (1967), pp. 14-51. ย The problem to which this paper is addressed is of momentous importance. How can we affirm our Jewish faith in a world so beset by doubt? How, in the encounter of halakhic Judaism with modern...
Background: A news article appearing in The New York Times on Sunday, February 10, 2002, dealt with the petition of some Israeli reservists protesting their assignment to duty in the West Bank and Gaza. Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Israel's defense minister, defended their...
This article originally appeared inย Traditionย 11, 3 (1970), pp. 5-12. Quite a few years ago I read a slim little volume, entitled Education in a World Adrift, of which,โunfortunatelyโI remember only the title. Pondering over the subject of Jewish education, I realized...
Max Stern Division of Communal Services Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary An Affiliate of Yeshiva University TEXTS AND TOPICS IN TEACHING LIMMUDEI KODESH FATE, DESTINY & SHIVAT TZIYON: The RAV on Religious Zionism A Study in the...
This article originally appeared in Ten Daโat, Vol. XIII. ย ย ย ย ย "School Craze: Jewish High Schooling Goes Boom" reads the title of a recent article in the Jewish Daily Forward1. The article's author, Gabriella Burman of the Forward staff, hails the proliferation of...
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THE TORAH OF ISRAEL AND THE STATE By: Yehuda Gershuni Rabbi Gershuni is a renowned rabbinic scholar and the author of numerous Halakhic studies. His essay was translated from the original Hebrew by Mr.Elliot Lerner I. Rabbi Kook Z'l wrote in Mussar Hakodesh:...
