Professional Development Resources: Holidays

Rosh Hodesh – The Women's Holiday

This article explores the role of women and the view of Rosh Chodesh as a women’s holiday. To read the article, click here. Read more

Sukkot Resources

Sukkot Resource Sheet for Teachers Background Information: What: Sukkot is a seven day Jewish holiday. It is one of the three major holidays in... Read more

Rabbi Mordechai Breuer and Modern Orthodox Biblical Commentary- Study of Tanakh

This article originally appeared in Tradition, vol. 33, 3, 1999, pp. 6 ff. Appears here with permission. Although Tanakh is the word of God,... Read more

Addition to the Hagaddah shel Pesach by David Mescheloff

Click here to see related source: https://files.lookstein.org/resource/hagada1.pdf Several years ago, at a Shabbat retreat in Jerusalem of the Bar-Ilan Talmud Department, I presented an addition... Read more

The Four Children

The Seder provides a model for intergenerational storytelling. In this selection from “The Family Participation Haggadah: A Different Night”, Noam Zion shares artistic interpretations... Read more

“Many Thoughts in the Heart of Man . . .”: Irony and Theology in the Book of Esther

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Women’s Megilla Reading

This article appears in Traditions and Celebrations for the Bat Mitzvah edited by Ora Wiskind Elper.[1] Published by Urim Publications and MaTaN: The Sadie... Read more