This article originally appeared in Tradition 26:3 (1992). I In his article, "Faith and Doubt," originally published in Tradition more than twenty years ago,1 Rabbi Norman Lamm addressed, from a traditional Jewish perspective, the problem of to what extent and in...
This article originally appeared in Tradition 9 (1967), pp. 14-51. The problem to which this paper is addressed is of momentous importance. How can we affirm our Jewish faith in a world so beset by doubt? How, in the encounter of halakhic Judaism with modern...
Max Stern Division of Communal Services Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary An Affiliate of Yeshiva University TEXTS AND TOPICS IN TEACHING LIMMUDEI KODESH FATE, DESTINY & SHIVAT TZIYON: The RAV on Religious Zionism A Study in the...
First appeared in Tradition Volume 12, No.3-4 (Winter/Spring 1972) A. General Principles (1) The state has no intrinsic value; only an instrumental value. This principle is common to both the religious (theocentric) approach and the humanist (anthropocentric)...
Introduction Background Literature Lesson 1 Worksheet 1 Lesson 2 Worksheet 2 Lesson 3 Worksheet 3 Lesson 4 Worksheet 4 Lesson 5 General Bibliography INTRODUCTION The Grade 12 Rabbinics curriculum at the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto deals with a number of...
An interview with Shalom Carmy This interview with Rabbi Shalom Carmy appeared in Hamevaser Vol. 38 No. 1, and is reprinted with permission. Asher Friedman: Our growing sensitivity to psychological and moral complexities gives us great tools for analyzing...
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The synopsis of this debate originally appeared in Hebrew in Meimad, Vol. 17, August 1999. (Translated by Rachel Schloss) About a year and a half ago, a few hundred men and women (mostly yeshiva and Midrasha students) gathered in Jerusalem’s “Yakar” Beit...