Dr. Moshe Sokolow, Professor Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Author at The Lookstein Center

Yeshiva Students and Military Service

by Dr. Moshe Sokolow, Professor Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration | Mar 20, 2014 | Resource

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

by Dr. Moshe Sokolow, Professor Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration | Dec 1, 2008 | Resource

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

by Dr. Moshe Sokolow, Professor Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration | Jul 11, 2006 | Resource

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...

Perspectives on Jewish Educational Leadership

by Dr. Moshe Sokolow, Professor Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration | Oct 15, 2004 | Focus on How We Teach (Fall 2004)

?הֲכָזֶה, יִהְיֶה צוֹם אֶבְחָרֵהו Meeting the challenge of “spirituality” This yom ha-kippurim I had a meaningful spiritual experience. As I recited the haftarah for the morning, I encountered three relatively cryptic words: פַּתֵּחַ חַרְצֻבּוֹת רֶשַׁע (Yesha`ayahu...

A Memorial Prayer for “9/11”

by Dr. Moshe Sokolow, Professor Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration | Sep 10, 2002 | Resource

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)

by Dr. Moshe Sokolow, Professor Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration | Sep 10, 2002 | Resource

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

by Dr. Moshe Sokolow, Professor Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration | May 23, 2002 | Resource

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

by Dr. Moshe Sokolow, Professor Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration | Apr 28, 2002 | Resource

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

by Dr. Moshe Sokolow, Professor Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration | Dec 18, 1999 | Resource

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...