Posts Tagged: Torah
New Program Increases Options for Yeshiva Students Seeking to Earn a BA in Israel
JNS.org - For Anglo university students who are spending a semester abroad in Israel, or those who have recently made aliyah, the Israeli...
Gaza Public School Education to Include Courses Promoting ‘Resistance to Israel’
Terror group Hamas, which controls the Gaza strip, announced Tuesday it has added studies to encourage "resistance to Israel" to the territory's public schools...
Reimagining and Rewriting the Binding of Isaac
JNS.org - There are only 19 verses in the story of the Binding of Isaac, which we read in synagogue each Rosh Hashanah, but there...
Greatness is Humility
A sequence of verses in this week's sedra gave rise to a beautiful Talmudic passage - one that has found a place in the siddur....
Wisdom From the Wilderness
"Numbers" might be how we call the fourth of the Five Books of Moses, but in the Hebrew original it is known as Bemidbar, or,...
Judaism and Revelation
We've all heard the sensible saying that history is written by the victors, but on second reflection it should seem clear that it's not...
In The Details
On the opening phrase of Mishpatim [Judgements]- "And these are the laws you are to set before them" - Rashi comments: "And these are the...
The Politics of Revelation
The revelation at Mount Sinai - the central episode not only of the parshah of Yitro, but of Judaism as a whole - was unique...
Late Night with Jew In The City (INTERVIEW)
Contrary to initial assumptions, it was surprising to learn from the eponymous blogger behind the Jew In The City that the website's moniker is NOT...
The Torah: Listening and Law
It would be reasonable to assume that a language that contains the verb "to command" must also contain the verb "to obey." The...
The Greatness in Humility
There is a fascinating detail in the passage about the king in this week's parsha. The text says that "When he takes the throne...
Holocaust Museum With Focus on Orthodox Jews To Open In Brooklyn Next Spring
According to a UJA study conducted last year, 23 percent of Brooklyn's 2.4 million residents are Jewish, including an estimated 9,000 Holocaust survivors, the largest...
The Witch Hunting Mentality
The American women gymnasts won the team gold and the team captain Aly Raisman ended their performance with a flawless dance routine to the...
Un-Orthodox Orthodox Art
Jacqueline Nicholls is a fine artist in her words "...who...
