Abstract: The Final Journey: How Judaism Dignifies the Passage" is a trailblazing curriculum to teach Jewish death rituals to high school seniors. For the students, it served as a transformative experience. They emerged more reflective, more spiritually engaged and...
Abstract: Most Judaic learning, especially past the primary grades, is text based. As people who study texts, we have preconceptions about those texts, which define our relationship to them. When we enter a classroom to teach, we not only carry those preconceptions...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 10, 1, 1997, pp. 75-80. Appears here with permission. Background Ten Da'at (Vol. VIII, no. I, Spring 1995, pp. 49-53) featured an analysis by Rabbi Dr. Chanina Rabinowitz of the legal responsibilities of a school to...
Abstract: The article argues for three pedagogic uses of the Ramban al hatorah which the author believes are not currently being employed. The first use is viewing the Ramban al hatorah topically, as a sugya, both where Ramban brings in other sources himself and when...
Click here to read this very interesting article about Jewish identity.
Abstract: All things on earth, be they animate or inanimate, are affected by time. However, only man is keenly aware of time. While animals may react instinctively to a time or seasonal change, only human beings are conscious of time's passage and actually measure...
In this article from Tradition (www.TraditionOnline.org), Joel B. Wolowelsky discusses interesting and rare Aliyyot, particularly in reference to the status of Kohanim. Introduction: Some years ago, I found myself on a Monday morning in a shul not my own, sitting next...
This article discusses two Sidrot that have sparked debate surrounding issues of symbolic purity and impurity. To read the article, click here.
This article discusses the mitzvoth in Parashat Ki Tetze with a focus on the mitzvah of "sending away the mother-bird.” To read the article, click here.
This article explores the moral and ethical obligation of the Jewish people, to protect the Earth. To read the article, click here.