When a female child reaches the age of twelve years and one day she is halakhically a Bat Mitzvah. A search of literature dealing with religious observance as relating to women indicates minimal sources available to those wishing to mark the occasion. For basic...
Bat Mitzvah: A Challenge for Religious Education Translated by Moshe Sokolow Copyright 1989, Ten Da’at. The religious upper school educational system in the State of Israel, comprised of Torah high schools, Ulpanot, technical and vocational schools, teachers’...
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN JUDAISM By: Alain Attar Today 's ecological awareness and debates on wider global issues are in many cases a result of the detrimental side of industrialization and its effect on the environment. What are Judaism 's views on...
Chazal's Criticism of Moshe Rabbenu Sicha Given By HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l Both sichot that appear here were delivered on Shabbat Parashat Vaera 5755 (1995) - the first on leil Shabbat, and the second at Seuda Shelishit. They were summarized after Shabbat by a...
An Interview with Menahem Kahana This interview originally appeared in Hebrew in Meimad, Vol. 17, August 1999. Translated by Rachel Schloss. Menahem Kahana, Professor of Talmud at Hebrew University, explains the difficulties inherent in learning Gemara:...
This article originally appeared in Hebrew in Meimad, Vol. 17, August 1999. (Translated by Rachel Schloss) The study of Talmud is at the very core of Jewish identity, which is why in yeshivot of all types, national-religious included, Gemara-learning is the...
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...
From Tradition, Vol. 18 No. I, Summer 1979 "…uphold… ideas long enough, frequently enough, and with inspiration, and some young people are not only going to believe in them, they are going to believe in them with the fervor of the young and even arrange...
Ten Da'at Index: Contemporary issues in Jewish education Achiman, Hanoch, The Use of "Behirah" in Education, 1, 1, 1987, p. 12. ADMINISTRATION Altshul, William, Child Abuse: A School Meets a Crisis, 2, 3, 1988, pp. 13-14. Bernstein, Louis, Boards of Education and Day...
Reprinted from Ten Da'at 5/2 1991, pp. 22-23. Recently my family celebrated two semahot; my oldest son, Yonah, became a bar mitzvah, and my middle son, Dovi, began learning Humash. Throughout the bar mitzvah preparation I was struck by the fact that preparing the...
