The following is an excerpt from the book "This is My God." The first tractate of the Talmud, Benedictions, fixes the times and customs of saying the Sh'ma, does the same for The Eighteen, and then develops the blessings for all occasions of life. The antiquity of the...
Rabbi Dr. David Eliach was dean of the Yeshivah of Flatbush for forty-three years. As noted by the United States House of Representatives, "Rabbi Eliach single-handedly inspired the parents and children of Flatbush, Brooklyn with his love and respect for the Hebrew...
Table of Contents Herzlia School, Cape Town, South Africa Ramaz Middle School, New York City Solomon Schechter Day School, Greater Hartford, Connecticut N.E. Miles Jewish Day School, Birmingham, Alabama Herzlia School, Cape Town, South Africa Ronnie Gotkin, Principal-...
I recently had the opportunity to meet – in person – one of the virtual acquaintances that I have made while moderating Lookjed. This particular individual was visiting Israel from Finland because it was Shavua HaSefer – “book week” in Israel – and she knew that she...
Scott Goldberg, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Education and Psychology at Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Psychology from New York University, an M.S.Ed. in Special Education from...
Robin Schwarz, M. Sp: Ed:LD, an ESL teacher and an LD specialist each for over 30 years, has been researching, writing about and teaching about the intersection of learning disabilities and second/foreign language learning for nearly two decades. She is currently...
As a consultant to various Jewish day schools across the country, I often hear from parents who wonder why their child, after spending many years studying the language, cannot function in Hebrew in the “real world”, outside the academic environment. This complaint...
Prof. Aryeh Wohl was the Educational Director of Israel’s Center for Educational Technology for thirty years. He is the Senior Editor and writer responsible for the Open University of Israel courses on Literacy. Prof. Wohl taught at Ben Gurion and Tel Aviv...
Martin Lockshin is professor of Humanities and Hebrew and Chair of the Division of Humanities at York University in Toronto. He is the author of a four volume annotated translation into English of Rashbam’s commentary on the Torah. There is a long and usually...
The Jewish people has preserved its traditions and passed them on using two primary modes of transmission, oral and written, sometimes competing with each other and other times coexisting. In this essay we will offer a brief historical survey of these two and explore...
