This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Heshvan 5751, pp. 15-16. Appears here with premission. One of the important subjects for study in the history of the Jews in the Middle Ages is the Karaites. The Karaite challenge to Rabbinic authority preoccupied the...
This article explores the role of women and the view of Rosh Chodesh as a women's holiday. To read the article, click here.
This article originally appeared in Studies in Jewish Education 8 (2002), pp. 53-71. Appears here with permission. In an earlier study, I presented an approach to the teaching of Oral Tradition (OT) literature which varies from existing educational practice in two...
This article originally appeared in Tradition Volume 19 #3 Fall 1981 . Reprinted here with permission. Teaching about Israel today is not merely teaching another subject like history or geography, nor is it a unit in "indoctrinating" students in Zionism. Today, when...
Dr. Wolowelsky is Chair of Advanced Placement Studies at the Yeshivah of Flatbush and a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of Bar-Ilan University’s Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora. Some years ago, I had the occasion to speak with a father...
Table of Contents “Ivrit B’Ivrit” by Joel Wolowelsky “Response to Ivrit B'Ivrit” by Alan Stadtmauer “Response to IVRIT beIVRIT: Not In My School” by Moshe Bernstein “RESPONSE IVRIT B’IVRIT” by Eliyahu Safran “More on Ivrit B’Ivrit” by Sara Bellehsen “Response” by...
From Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah: Contributions and Limitations, ed. Shalom Carmy, Orthodox Forum Series, New York, 1991. The Orthodox Forum Series is a Project of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, An Affiliate of Yeshiva University. The...
Reprinted from Ten Da’at 9:1 Winter 1996 Most yeshivah students learn the pre-patriarchal biblical stories in the early years of elementary school, and for many this remains their only systematic study of any parts of Bereshit. This is most unfortunate, as the...
This article originally appeared in Tradition Volume 29, 1994 In the circles of what is labelled "Modern Orthodoxy" or "Centrist Orthodoxy," Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik z.t.l. is referred to as "the Rav." This appellation is not merely a sign of respect and...
From Tradition, Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 1970 What little the general reader knows of Biblical criticism, he knows it as an opposition to religious beliefs. The name of Julius Wellhausen immediately comes to mind, and his hypothesis of different documentary...