Dr. Moshe Sokolow explores the question of whether benei yeshiva should be exempt from military service. Click here to read the article.
Teaching Spirituality in Day Schools and Yeshiva High Schools
This article deals with the form that curriculum and instruction for spirituality may take. To read the article, click here.
Face to Face: An Exercise in Theme Words
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Elul 5753, pp. 30-32. Appears here with permission. In Gen. 32:20, Yaakov's emissaries to Esav recite the message with which they had been dispatched. Let us first see how that message is recorded in some English...
A Memorial Prayer for “9/11”
As a member of Hatzoloh, I responded to the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001. Given the notable Jewish dimension to this human tragedy, I was motivated to compose an Azkarah, a memorial poem, for all its victims and heroes. The following is a...
Memorial Prayer for 9/11 (Hebrew)
אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם אֲשֶר כָּל יְצִיר נִבְרָא בִּדְמוּתוֹ וּבְצַלְמוֹ. אָבִינוּ שֶבַּשָּׁמַיִּם הַפּוֹצֶה אֶת עֲבָדָיו מֵחֶרֶב רָעָה. אֵל נְקָמוֹת פְּקוֹד-נָא בְּקִנְאָתְךָ אֲנָשִים, נָשִים, וָטַף אֲשֶר נִסְפּוּ בְּהִתְרַסֵּק הַמַּטּוֹסִים הַחֲטוּפִים בִּידֵי בְלִיַּעַל,...
When Must Soldiers Disobey Direct Orders? A Biblical, Talmudic, Midrashic Analysis of An All Too Contemporary Question
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...
Fate, Destiny & Shivat Tziyon: The RAV on Religious Zionism
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...
Ten Da'at Index
Ten Da'at Index: Contemporary issues in Jewish education Achiman, Hanoch, The Use of "Behirah" in Education, 1, 1, 1987, p. 12. ADMINISTRATION Altshul, William, Child Abuse: A School Meets a Crisis, 2, 3, 1988, pp. 13-14. Bernstein, Louis, Boards of Education and Day...