“Israel engagement…must enlarge our educators, our Hillel directors, and our student leaders”
Israel engagement, in responding to this micro-crisis and in the work more broadly, must...
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“We must ask ourselves: which behaviors, skills, and dispositions are we hoping to cultivate among young Jews, and how might they best be imparted?”
In addition to more funding and more personnel to expand projects of the pluralistic...
“The major thrust of Christian appropriation of the Hebrew Scripture was to transfigure it, through Christological interpretation”
The major thrust of Christian appropriation of the Hebrew Scripture was to transfigure it,...
“An examination of biblical and talmudic sources does not reveal that women in particular practiced witchcraft”
An examination of biblical and talmudic sources does not reveal that women in particular...
“…there is a strategic error already starting to emerge in the Jewish community’s predictable response to these concerns…”
School is back in session, and amidst all the excitement of new beginnings there...
“On the current American Jewish scene, one group stands out for its seemingly successful integration of traditional religious behavior and belief with full participation in modern society”
On the current American Jewish scene, one group stands out for its seemingly successful...
“Sorcery as practiced by women constituted insurrection against the social structure no less than sorcery practiced by men”
Whereas the biblical period had prophetesses, charismatic women in positions of influence and power,...
Hillel professionals “did not go into Jewish education to win a Kafkaesque “color war” mapped onto complex geopolitical realities”
Our colleagues working at Hillels around the country are talented, and they are driven...
“Only by abdicating his role can the charismatic rabbi who has violated sexual boundaries begin the work of teshuvah”
When we support a charismatic teacher in the belief that he alone is needed...
“…an estimated 70 percent of Modern Orthodox college students are enrolled in secular institutions of higher learning, and the impact of their experience there cannot be ignored”
One thing is certain: an estimated 70 percent of Modern Orthodox college students are...