admin | September 9, 2022
Fathers Day took on new meaning for me this year, as I stood in a circle with my sons, listening to their father and the people who saved him talk about the day he died.
admin | September 9, 2022
(JTA) I hadnt heard of quiet quitting until about 10 minutes ago. Since then every major news outlet has done a story on this purported trend, defined as a movement among office workers to draw firmer work-life boundaries by doing less work. It means closing your laptop at 5 p.m
admin | August 30, 2022
Browse > Home / Books, Featured Articles / The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith, and the Talmud - reviewed by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen J-Wire August 25, 2022 by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read on for article Maggie Anton has introduced us to a number of stories around Jewish life, beginning with her series on Rashis Daughters [3 novels] followed by Rav Hisdas Daughter [2 novels] and one about personal relationships {Fifty Shades of Talmud]. The story is based on a young woman reporter of a Jewish newspaper who in interviewing a young up-and-coming rabbinic scholar, convinces him to teach her Talmud- something which does not surprise the reader of today, for it has become not uncommon, it clearly was viewed as a no-no in the 1950s orthodox world
admin | August 30, 2022
Jews around the world had a sense of detachment as we watched the brutal attack last week on Salman Rushdie. There is almost some relief in the knowledge that this isnt our battle.
admin | August 30, 2022
Question: As we now read Sefer Devarim, the Torah tells us that Moses was instructed by Hashem to appoint a successor. Moses wanted his sons to succeed him but Hashem tells him to appoint Yehoshua as the next leader. Why was this request of the greatest and most righteous of men denied?
admin | August 30, 2022
Posted on August 26, 2022 (5782) By Rabbi Label Lam | Series: Dvar Torah | Level: Beginner See I place before you today blessing and curse.
admin | August 30, 2022
Some people get angry at the Jewish calendar. It takes away their ability to decide when they want to rejoice, when they want to mourn and when they want to repent.
admin | August 30, 2022
Drive along any main street of an American town. You will pass a building with a sign in front: Read the Bible! I can guarantee you that building is most likely an evangelical Protestant church
admin | August 30, 2022
When was the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament (OT) written? The answer is complicated because the OT is not a single bookits a library. In addition, even within that library, the books themselves are not books in the modern sense, but composite texts which themselves weave together both oral and written traditionssometimes gathered together over centuries.
admin | August 30, 2022
For Fall 2022, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, in collaboration withYeshiva College(YC) and Stern College for Women, is offeringnumerous coursesforStraus Scholarsand Yeshiva University undergraduate students to study the great texts and traditions of the West and Judaism. Back by popular demand, Straus Center Clinical Assistant Professor Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner is teaching The Thought of Rabbi Sacks on the Beren campus, as well as Malbim and Modernity, which focuses on the nineteenth-century exegete
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