Enrichment in Education: A Model from ‘Down Under’ Rosenkranz Centre for Excellence and Achievement in Education The Rosenkranz Centre, established at Melbourne’s Bialik College in 1997 in honour of two Jewish communal stalwarts, Betty and Shmuel Rosenkranz, is the...
This article is based on an address given at the 1988 convention of the Rabbinical Council of America. The author acknowledges the work of Harav Yissachar Jacobson, particularly his chapter, “Halshah Be-Melitzat haNeviim,” Hazon Ha-Mikra, Vol. 2, pp. 110-121 (Tel...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da’at Vol. XIII (Winter 2000). The enormous time, energy, and resources spent continuously by the overall North American Orthodox community on its day schools is testament to its overwhelming desire to imprint its children with...
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...
THE SABBATH IN THE SPACE AGE Azriel Rosenfeld This article originally appeared in Tradition Summer 1964 Introduction The Jewish religious law (Halakhah) relating to Sabbath observance consists primarily of injunctions against performing certain actions on the...
THE SPHINX AS A LEADER: A READING OF JUDGES 13-16 By: Shalom Carmy This article originally appeared in Tradition. I The scene is familiar: the chosen people oppressed, wayward, weak, they grope towards penitence. The stage is set: that peculiar expectancy, heralding...
Originally appeared in Ten Da’at Volume XIII, Winter 2000 Background It has often been observed within the profession that there exists a relatively high turnover rate amongst male Orthodox Jewish teachers ("rebbes") in Jewish day schools. At conventions of Jewish...
This article is a Hebrew responsa that deals with the Halakhic implications of a man in space. בס"ד יום רביעי כ"א מר"ח תשס"ב ירושלים כבוד הרב הנעלה חיים צבי קאניקאו שליט"א שלום וברכה, בדבר השאלה בעניין הנהגת אדם מישראל שנוסע בלווין שאצלו כל שעה וחצי מתחלף מלילה ליום...
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...
Background: A news article appearing in The New York Times on Sunday, February 10, 2002, dealt with the petition of some Israeli reservists protesting their assignment to duty in the West Bank and Gaza. Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Israel's defense minister, defended their...
