Seth Korelitz describes how he engages students in an exploration of God. When I speak with my students about tefillah, there is nearly universal agreement that tefillah is difficult. When I ask them why, one of their most common answers is that they don’t understand...
The Art of Prayer
Peter Stein shares how he integrates art into an alternate tefillah experience. What do you get when you mix dried leaves, acrylic paint and a smattering of Rav Soloveitchik? In Frankel Jewish Academy's Art & Tefillah Minyan, you get beautiful works of art about...
Together or Separate: Halakhic response to breakaway minyanim
Jewish prayer is a paradoxical pursuit: it is an individual spiritual enterprise undertaken in a communal setting. The paradox is not of our making or desire; it is inherent. To be sure, we covet communal spaces that facilitate our personal journeys, and when we are...
Let’s Not Fall into the Trap
Let me begin with the following generalization: If it “aint Broke,” fix it before it breaks. I’ll explain. I have been actively observing and leading tefillot for children and teens for over sixty years. Among the young (ages 3-10), on the surface everything looks...
From The Editor Fall 2017
Ever since the institution of formalized prayer there has been anxiety about the impact of that decision. “When one makes his prayer fixed it is no longer a supplication” (Mishnah Berakhot 4:4). The implications are educational as well as theological. Educating to the...
About the course
In Their Footsteps: Women’s Leadership in the Bible and Today is an online leadership course for 10th and 11th graders . This course encourages young Jewish women to develop their confidence, voice, and vision, and provides them with the practical skills to take...
Online Panel Discussion: Open-Mindedness and the Yeshiva High School
Welcome to the online panel discussion, in which Hillel Broder, CB Neugroschl, Ari Segal and Tzvi Sinensky, will be discussing Jack Bieler's "Open-Mindedness and the Yeshiva High School: Musings on the Range of Views to Which Our Students Should be Exposed." The...
Online Panel Discussion
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Teaching the Whole Child by Evaluating Students’ Voices
Eliana Lipsky spent a year researching and co-teaching a Humash class. She shares her findings about using religious studies to teach the whole child. Introduction To teach the “whole child” necessitates that we understand that child, including being attentive...