Orthodox Judaism Carnegie Shul Chatter
... Neo-Orthodoxy, or Modern Orthodoxy as it is called in the US, is represented in the majority of Orthodox synagogues in the US and England, with its major institutions for the training of Modern Orthodox rabbis being Yeshiva University in New York and Jews’ College in London. Orthodox Self-Definition ...
... Neo-Orthodoxy, or Modern Orthodoxy as it is called in the US, is represented in the majority of Orthodox synagogues in the US and England, with its major institutions for the training of Modern Orthodox rabbis being Yeshiva University in New York and Jews’ College in London. Orthodox Self-Definition ...
EC PAECK COLIEEGE
... The great question, which the forthcoming Conference of the World Union for Progressive Judaism will help to answer,‘is whether we have the courage to face the big issues and not only the little issues, ...
... The great question, which the forthcoming Conference of the World Union for Progressive Judaism will help to answer,‘is whether we have the courage to face the big issues and not only the little issues, ...
What Do We Mean By Religion? The Primacy of Ritual or Ethics
... should an industry[s] average of wages or benefits serve as a guide to ethical conduct. Rabbis [should] specialize in law not…ethical principles.” The letter urges resistance to measures that “downplay the … kosher laws themselves in pursuit of a higher morality.” How can anyone speaking in the name ...
... should an industry[s] average of wages or benefits serve as a guide to ethical conduct. Rabbis [should] specialize in law not…ethical principles.” The letter urges resistance to measures that “downplay the … kosher laws themselves in pursuit of a higher morality.” How can anyone speaking in the name ...
Jewish Literacy – What Do You Need To Know?
... The United States is one of the most religious countries in the world. It is also a nation of appalling religious illiteracy. While nearly two-thirds of Americans endorse the teaching of creationism in our public schools, fewer than half can identify the Book of Genesis. About the same proportion of ...
... The United States is one of the most religious countries in the world. It is also a nation of appalling religious illiteracy. While nearly two-thirds of Americans endorse the teaching of creationism in our public schools, fewer than half can identify the Book of Genesis. About the same proportion of ...
The Making of Haredim
... political organization to emerge was Zionism, with its multinational reach, prestigious World Congresses, and its influence in Palestine. For Orthodox Jews, it was especially galling that this secular, political nationalism presented itself both to Jews and to the world as the official defining move ...
... political organization to emerge was Zionism, with its multinational reach, prestigious World Congresses, and its influence in Palestine. For Orthodox Jews, it was especially galling that this secular, political nationalism presented itself both to Jews and to the world as the official defining move ...
The Birth of Judaism
... we want to understand Judaism, therefore, we must try to understand the visions of its founders, the rabbis of the 1st-6th centuries. The Judaism of the rabbis began in the Land of Israel. Emerging from a Judaism centered on the Temple in Jerusalem, and responding to the destruction of that Temple, ...
... we want to understand Judaism, therefore, we must try to understand the visions of its founders, the rabbis of the 1st-6th centuries. The Judaism of the rabbis began in the Land of Israel. Emerging from a Judaism centered on the Temple in Jerusalem, and responding to the destruction of that Temple, ...
Beliefs, Values and Practices: Judaism
... and dates back nearly 4,000 years to the Middle East. Jews believe they are G-d's chosen people and in return for the covenant made with Jews, they keep G-d’s laws and aim to bring holiness into every aspect of life. Judaism, whether orthodox or reform, is a religion of great tradition and places gr ...
... and dates back nearly 4,000 years to the Middle East. Jews believe they are G-d's chosen people and in return for the covenant made with Jews, they keep G-d’s laws and aim to bring holiness into every aspect of life. Judaism, whether orthodox or reform, is a religion of great tradition and places gr ...
Understanding the Major Branches of Modern Judaism
... based in Jewish history and communal practice. However, Frankel's use of modern methods of historical scholarship in analyzing Jewish texts and developing Jewish law set him apart from neo-Orthodox Judaism, which was concurrently developing under the leadership of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. recons ...
... based in Jewish history and communal practice. However, Frankel's use of modern methods of historical scholarship in analyzing Jewish texts and developing Jewish law set him apart from neo-Orthodox Judaism, which was concurrently developing under the leadership of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. recons ...
VUPJ – Introduction to Judaism 2006
... Bruchim Ha’Ba’im (Welcome) to the 2012 Introduction to Judaism Course. This syllabus contains information about the topics that will be covered each week as well as the required and recommended readings for each session. Please do ALL the required readings and as much of the recommended reading as t ...
... Bruchim Ha’Ba’im (Welcome) to the 2012 Introduction to Judaism Course. This syllabus contains information about the topics that will be covered each week as well as the required and recommended readings for each session. Please do ALL the required readings and as much of the recommended reading as t ...
VUPJ – Introduction to Judaism 2006
... Bruchim Ha’Ba’im (Welcome) to the 2012 Introduction to Judaism Course. This syllabus contains information about the topics that will be covered each week as well as the required and recommended readings for each session. Please do ALL the required readings and as much of the recommended reading as t ...
... Bruchim Ha’Ba’im (Welcome) to the 2012 Introduction to Judaism Course. This syllabus contains information about the topics that will be covered each week as well as the required and recommended readings for each session. Please do ALL the required readings and as much of the recommended reading as t ...
NewsViews_ActionConversion
... homepage, enabling potential converts to gather useful information—study requirements, resources, and personal statements from congregants who have journeyed to Judaism. For those who are ready to take the next step, a “highly structured” and “personal” conversion process follows, so that “conversio ...
... homepage, enabling potential converts to gather useful information—study requirements, resources, and personal statements from congregants who have journeyed to Judaism. For those who are ready to take the next step, a “highly structured” and “personal” conversion process follows, so that “conversio ...
Judaism and Reproductive Technology
... [7]. Therefore, the orthodox Jewish essence is that one must study Torah from the earliest years with all of their intellectual might. The purpose is to try to figure out through logic and introspection, debate and counter debate, all based on Torah, what it is that God expects of us. Only through c ...
... [7]. Therefore, the orthodox Jewish essence is that one must study Torah from the earliest years with all of their intellectual might. The purpose is to try to figure out through logic and introspection, debate and counter debate, all based on Torah, what it is that God expects of us. Only through c ...
Introduction – Rabbinic Judaism
... Judaism is often believed to be a religion based primarily in the Hebrew Bible, or even more specifically, the first five books of the Bible, known in Jewish tradition as the Torah. These five books, in the form of a Torah scroll, are found in nearly every Jewish house of worship. “Torah,” however, ...
... Judaism is often believed to be a religion based primarily in the Hebrew Bible, or even more specifically, the first five books of the Bible, known in Jewish tradition as the Torah. These five books, in the form of a Torah scroll, are found in nearly every Jewish house of worship. “Torah,” however, ...
Rabbi Burton L
... way, tThey at least, along with the later poets & sages, met many of the gradual changes which occured during the first 500 years or so after the Torah 5 books had been written. But as the years went on, the task of expanding Torah to meet the demands of new situations fell to a new group within the ...
... way, tThey at least, along with the later poets & sages, met many of the gradual changes which occured during the first 500 years or so after the Torah 5 books had been written. But as the years went on, the task of expanding Torah to meet the demands of new situations fell to a new group within the ...
Jewish World
... Ironically, though, in 2013 the Haredi-dominated Chief Rabbinate of Israel challenged conversion to Judaism rituals carried out by a number of member rabbis of the RCA. However, a Haredi critic tells The Report that Soloveitchik would not have gone as far as supporting Open Orthodoxy. “He was an un ...
... Ironically, though, in 2013 the Haredi-dominated Chief Rabbinate of Israel challenged conversion to Judaism rituals carried out by a number of member rabbis of the RCA. However, a Haredi critic tells The Report that Soloveitchik would not have gone as far as supporting Open Orthodoxy. “He was an un ...
Volume 6. Weimar Germany, 1918/19–1933 Emil Fackenheim on
... not preach every Shabbat, had few weddings and funerals, and did not, except for holidays, have much else to do, teaching took up most of his professional time, not a bad thing for a rabbi. True, there was no adult education, for there was no demand for it, and this may have soured him on his rabbin ...
... not preach every Shabbat, had few weddings and funerals, and did not, except for holidays, have much else to do, teaching took up most of his professional time, not a bad thing for a rabbi. True, there was no adult education, for there was no demand for it, and this may have soured him on his rabbin ...
Vayeshev-5764
... Adopting this view, we can go back to the Rabbis’ question. What kind of “melacha,” work, was Joseph intending to do that day? Joseph, a strapping young man, is alone in the house with his master’s wife, and indeed he could submit to her if he so desired. Freud of course would say that, certainly on ...
... Adopting this view, we can go back to the Rabbis’ question. What kind of “melacha,” work, was Joseph intending to do that day? Joseph, a strapping young man, is alone in the house with his master’s wife, and indeed he could submit to her if he so desired. Freud of course would say that, certainly on ...
the first rabbi in america - Stevens Institute of Technology
... Rabbi Rice to become the spiritual head of his shul, and Rav Rice accepted. So it was that Rav Rice and his family arrived in Baltimore in late August of 1840. Rabbi Rice and His Congregation At first glance, Rabbi Rice and Congregation Nidchei Yisroel, which was also known as the “Stadt Shul” of Ba ...
... Rabbi Rice to become the spiritual head of his shul, and Rav Rice accepted. So it was that Rav Rice and his family arrived in Baltimore in late August of 1840. Rabbi Rice and His Congregation At first glance, Rabbi Rice and Congregation Nidchei Yisroel, which was also known as the “Stadt Shul” of Ba ...
(grandson of Rav Breuer) regarding Rabbi Joseph Elias
... school and of other Jewish institutions. Though this essay was written over six decades ago, it should stimulate thought and discussion among thinking Jewish readers today.” The omission --- unexplained but otherwise of no import --- of the essay from the original 1911 Gesammelte Schriften (Collecte ...
... school and of other Jewish institutions. Though this essay was written over six decades ago, it should stimulate thought and discussion among thinking Jewish readers today.” The omission --- unexplained but otherwise of no import --- of the essay from the original 1911 Gesammelte Schriften (Collecte ...
responses - Darchei Noam
... with the balance many are able to strike between being religious and modern at the same time A great caring community Modern orthodoxy and people who either epitomize or desire it Small, family-like atmosphere Tradition without abdication of reason I feel very close to whomever is davening. We hear ...
... with the balance many are able to strike between being religious and modern at the same time A great caring community Modern orthodoxy and people who either epitomize or desire it Small, family-like atmosphere Tradition without abdication of reason I feel very close to whomever is davening. We hear ...
Introduction to Judaism
... seasons of the year and in a variety of locations across the Southland. INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM is designed to be a meaningful educational experience for any person interested in knowing and understanding Judaism and Jewish life. The course organizes instruction according to the major holidays and e ...
... seasons of the year and in a variety of locations across the Southland. INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM is designed to be a meaningful educational experience for any person interested in knowing and understanding Judaism and Jewish life. The course organizes instruction according to the major holidays and e ...
Ethics in Judaism - Year 11-12 Studies of Religion 2Unit 2013-4
... Suicide is regarded as such a serious sin that a Jew who does commit suicide is not buried together with other Jews, but in a separate part of the cemetery. However, this would not be carried out where the person committing suicide was mentally unbalanced or if there were grounds for thinking that t ...
... Suicide is regarded as such a serious sin that a Jew who does commit suicide is not buried together with other Jews, but in a separate part of the cemetery. However, this would not be carried out where the person committing suicide was mentally unbalanced or if there were grounds for thinking that t ...
Letters_lens_sp09
... immigration and “cheap immigrant labor” are often, word for word, precisely the same arguments that were used to halt Jewish and Eastern European immigration in the 1920s. I do not know of a single Jewish leader or organization, whether liberal or conservative, who believes those argument were compe ...
... immigration and “cheap immigrant labor” are often, word for word, precisely the same arguments that were used to halt Jewish and Eastern European immigration in the 1920s. I do not know of a single Jewish leader or organization, whether liberal or conservative, who believes those argument were compe ...