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 to the haggada which we had been using in my family for several years....
The Seder provides a model for intergenerational storytelling. In this selection from "The Family Participation Haggadah: A Different Night", Noam Zion shares artistic interpretations of the Four Children described by the midrash. The matching teacher's guide explores...
This article originally appeared in Tradition, 31 (4), Winter 1997. Appears here with permission. Hardly a single recent piece on the Book of Esther has failed to note at least a few of the book’s ironic situations and lines. Several authors have even argued that...
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 Rennert Women's Institute for Torah Studies, 2003. I. Talmudic Sources Jewish law generally frees women from...
Also available at Yeshivat Har Etzion Virtual Beit Midrash. "What is Chanuka? Our Rabbis taught: On the twenty-fifth of Kislev begin the eight days of Chanuka; we may not eulogize on these days nor may we fast on them. When the Greeks entered the Temple, they defiled...
Since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, its Independence Day or Yom ha-Atzmaut has been celebrated in a variety of ways. The religious community, at least that major part of it which saw in the founding of the State a historic blessing and a revelation of...
This is an ambitious Simchat Torah educational experience which we started in 5760 in Havurat Tel Aviv. We unroll the entire Sefer Torah and send the children of the congregation from station to station from Bereshit to vZot haBracha, reading selected passages and...
Reclaiming Sukkot: Planning an experiential program,shifting a paradigm, and a different twist on kiruv Zig Ziglar, the famous sales-trainer, warns his students: "Don 't even try to change somebody else 's mind; you can 't do it. The best you can do is offer new...
We just returned from this year’s Sukkot encampment and wanted to share the adventure with you. I call it an adventure because it always contains surprises which supersede even the most scrupulous planning. We had planned to take about 20 Orthodox Day school students...
The three-year Roman siege of Yerushalayim portended doom for Jewish nationalism. The inhabitants of the Holy City were divided; some were wearied from the hopelessness of the situation; others, although refusing to surrender, fought among themselves. Hunger and...