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...
This article originally appeared in Tradition 11, 3 (1970), pp. 5-12. Quite a few years ago I read a slim little volume, entitled Education in a World Adrift, of which,—unfortunately—I remember only the title. Pondering over the subject of Jewish education, I realized...
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...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da’at, Vol. XIII. "School Craze: Jewish High Schooling Goes Boom" reads the title of a recent article in the Jewish Daily Forward1. The article's author, Gabriella Burman of the Forward staff, hails the proliferation of...
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