Introduction: Online learning groups and “Communities of Practice” represent a rapidly growing phenomenon, and the Jewish world is successfully taking part in the professional and educational opportunities made available through these relatively new forms of...
Ask a teacher to teach the same short story to children every day for eight or more years, and they will likely look at you like you are crazy! Yet, in a sense, that is the challenge of teaching tefillah. We have the same tefillot, more or less, that we use with our...
EMUNAT HAKHAMIM Faith in the Sages By: Simha Friedman This article originally appeared in Tradition 27,4 1993. Appears here with permission. The subject of this article, emunat hakhamim and da'at Torah is not a new one. In our day, it constitutes a very real issue for...
JEWISH GENEALOGY RESOURCES American Jewish Archives – Website includes several online exhibitions with downloadable images and documents, and an online catalog of their collection. Avotaynu – Publisher of journals and books of interest to people researching Jewish...
Abstract: The article argues for three pedagogic uses of the Ramban al hatorah which the author believes are not currently being employed. The first use is viewing the Ramban al hatorah topically, as a sugya, both where Ramban brings in other sources himself and when...
Judy Klitsner, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, looks at leadership in Bereshit and Shemot. Video courtesy of The Lookstein Center of Jewish Education in partnership with Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School. 57 minutes
Judy Klitsner, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, looks at leadership in Bereshit and Shemot. The sourcesheet is available here. Video courtesy of The Lookstein Center of Jewish Education in partnership with Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School....
Shmuel Klitsner of Midreshet Lindenbaum undertakes a literary analysis of the text of Yehuda and Tamar and the text of Brit Bein Habetarim. Video courtesy of The Lookstein Center of Jewish Education in partnership with Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School. 59...
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In this session, Eli Kohn examines the theory and practice of diagnostic tests in Judaic Studies. The session focuses primarily on Tanakh, but the approach can be applied to all subject areas. Rabbi Dr Eli Kohn is the Director of Curriculum Development at The...