Boards of Education and Day Schools Louis Bernstein This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at 2, 2, 1988, pp. 26-27. Reprinted here with permission. DR. BERNSTEIN is Chairman of the Board of Mizrachi, Associate Professor at the Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic...
The Talmudic Meaning of Peshat By: Louis Rabinowitz This article originally appeared in Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Thought, 6:1, 1963. Reprinted here with permission. Abstract: The author of this essay takes a new look at one of the fundamental principles of...
Sukkot Resource Sheet for Teachers Background Information: What: Sukkot is a seven day Jewish holiday. It is one of the three major holidays in Judaism called Shalosh Regalim (lit. Three on Foot), when Israelites would pilgrimage to Jerusalem for festivities and...
Reprinted here with permission. Classes at the Cheder at Congregation Adas Yehuda V'Shoshana met three days a week for approximately 5.5 hours per week. To view the various parts of the curriculum, please click on one of the links below. Stated Purpose Kri'ah and...
The third in a series of six lessons, Abe Katz provides sources for and explanations of the prayers of Kriyat Shema and its brachot. To read the lesson, click here.
The second in a series of six lessons, Abe Katz provides sources for and explanations of the prayers in Pseukei D'Zimra. To read the lesson, click here.
The first in a series of six lessons, Abe Katz provides an introduction and sources related to Shacharit and Birchot Hashachar. To read the lesson, click here.
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...
Translated by Moshe J. Bernstein This article originally appeared in Tradition, vol. 21, 3, 1984. Appears here with permission. One of the difficult dilemmas confronting the traditional teacher of Bible concerns his attitude to the biblical exegesis found in Talmud...
This article was originally published in Ten Da'at 5,2 (1991), pp. 39-40. Imagine that your son is taught to read the Cyrillic alphabet (although he doesn't understand the Russian language), and instructed to read thirty pages from The Gulag Archipelago, in Russian....