This article is collection of readings in Hebrew that are appropriate to be read during a Yom Ha'atzmaut Seuda. To read the article, click here.

This article is collection of readings in Hebrew that are appropriate to be read during a Yom Ha'atzmaut Seuda. To read the article, click here.
An article taken from A Practical Guide to Torah Learning by Dovid Landesman (Jason Aronson Inc., 1995). Reprinted with permission. To read the article, click here.
Prologue: In every large group or organization, the individuals involved never quite actualize the professed ideals. Visitors to an urban courtroom, for example, are shocked to discover that often neither judges, attorneys, nor even the police seem to have an...
Rabbi Yair Hoffman Dean, Tiferet High School for Girls (formerly Gamla High School for Girls) Lawrence, New York Reprinted here with permission. Rabbi Hoffman can be contacted at vze37jka@verizon.net or at the school at 516 239-4190 or 239 4475 There seems to be a...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at 1996, 9:1, pp. 55-62. Reprinted here with permission. A Prefatory Plea Although I have given the matter much thought and have some ideas for the resolution of the difficulties I see in the teaching of halakhah, my purpose...
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 is a collection of responses to student questions on Tractate Shabbat, in Hebrew. To read the article, click here.
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, 6, 1, 1992, pp. 28-30. Reprinted here with permission. DR. DEITCHER is a faculty member of the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He spent the 1990-91 academic year on sabbatical at...
Originally published in Tradition 36 (2002) pp. 89-114. Appears here with permission. Any comprehensive overview of the concern for the human and social factor within halakha needs to relate, perhaps both substantively and historically, to several planes. We need to...
This article originally appeared in Tradition 10,4, 1969. Appears here with permission. Rabbinic prayer, it is often said, is paradigmatic of the halakhic enterprise. Here one finds the creative tension of structure and sponteneity, keva and kavanah, that lies at the...