“Before engaging in any dialectic analysis, the Tosafists engaged in a close reading of the local passage,…”
Before engaging in any dialectic analysis, the Tosafists engaged in a close reading of...
“…how could one sector possibly take market share away from another sector if it isn’t really allowed to market?”
…we tell the for-profit sector, “Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar...
“…in haredi communities in America and especially in Israel, “learning,” regardless of aptitude, has replaced working as a male adult norm”
In traditionally religious European communities, for example, most men worked for a living; the...
“Rashi’s line-by-line explanations of the entire talmudic corpus opened the book of the Talmud in a way that was previously unparalleled”
Rashi’s line-by-line explanations of the entire talmudic corpus opened the book of the Talmud...
“…if a nonprofit organization ever had a dream of building magnificent scale that required that for six years,…we would expect a crucifixion”
Amazon went for six years without returning any profit to investors, and people had...
“The question, however, is whether the Synagogue, itself, particularly in its present form, can cope with the crisis which faces American Jewry”
The Synagogue is one of the major forces in Jewish life in America. The...
“The Tosafist schools set out to analyze the entire Talmud using all relevant talmudic passages as a context and backdrop for the text under scrutiny”
The Tosafists approached the talmudic text with a similar perspective: talmudic passages could be...
“…it’s mystifying that in our American Jewish organizational culture, we have a huge web of information, but we have not successfully networked, tracked and sequenced our people enough”
…it’s mystifying that in our American Jewish organizational culture, we have a huge web...
“The haredi camp encompasses both a number of hasidic sects and the spiritual descendants of their no less pious historical antagonists…”
The haredi camp encompasses both a number of hasidic sects and the spiritual descendants...
“Rabbis across the spectrum of Modern Orthodoxy…point to a community that has absorbed American understandings of the sovereign self”
While such disagreements on matters of Jewish law occupy the foreground, a series of...