“To feed the hunger for knowledge that exists among American Jews, we need education that doesn’t talk down to people or make them feel like children”
Today’s Jews, he said, are better educated in general education, which...
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“You can’t bring anything Jewish to a conversation if you don’t know it” – Lawton
I’m constantly being told by Americans that American Jews are out and proud, unlike...
A “rabbinic literary form which has analogies in rabbinic texts is the chreia, also called apophthegma or pronouncement story”
Another rabbinic literary form which has analogies in rabbinic texts is the chreia, also...
“If we’re just like everybody else, what are we for?” -Clive Lawton
If we’re just like everybody else, what are we for? If we can’t add...
“This whole story says more about those Jews who attach importance to Madoff’s Jewishness, than it says about Madoff” – Hirschfield
On the one hand, Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, co-president of CLAL – the National Center...
“The Sabbath symbolizes a state of complete harmony between man and nature and between man and man”
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In the Old Testament, a man who “gathers sticks” (Num. 4:32 ff.) is considered...Considering how to separate a text from its context re: Rabbinic Literature
If neither technical terms nor attributions are available for separating a text from its...
Biblical Events “might indeed offer some guidance for the future”
Do the foregoing events bear any lessons for modern Israel? In one sense they...
Jews “can relax; we don’t have to worry about [quantitative] numbers”
As you may know, we’re not expanding at a great rate. Numerically, we’re probably...
“Jewish education in this country has given too little attention to the texts, history, and culture of the Jewish people”
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Jewish education in this country has given too little attention to the texts, history,...