Judaism
13/08/2015 - 19:33
The Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 2b–3a) explicated situations in which experts are in short supply. The Talmud evokes the principle “not to... →
04/08/2015 - 11:12
Nonetheless, no rabbi anywhere can find consolation in the claim that “other rabbis do this and not us.” At a time when the entire Jewish... →
04/06/2015 - 16:02
Shaul is one of 35 students in the first class of the center’s nursing program for men. Half the class is ultra-Orthodox men who, after... →
02/01/2015 - 13:33
Technically speaking, there are four “official” religions in Russia: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism. But given that almost 70... →
23/06/2014 - 14:00
Quoting a graduating senior, Sam writes, “YHS failed to make religion personal. It seemed like a rulebook, and an unappealing one. Whatever... →
31/12/2013 - 17:34
The latest controversy, set off by a letter from Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, who warned parents of high school girls not to allow their daughters... →
05/08/2013 - 13:41
From the time of the Babylonian exile, in the sixth century B.C.E. until the destruction of the Second Temple, Judaism rested on two main... →
12/07/2013 - 13:00
A graduate of the program is “qualified and equipped as a new kind of leader in the Orthodox community and beyond,” not exactly a rabbi,... →
14/06/2013 - 20:09
The main justification for Halevy’s position was that he tried to support the humiliated, which in this case meant the Jews, and not... →
25/10/2012 - 15:30
The timing of the vote was not coincidental: The seminary had waited until after the death of Rabbi Saul Lieberman, one of its most... →
07/10/2012 - 17:26
For me, there is nothing more alive than a book. And for many, there is no book more alive than the Bible. Humanity has bowed down to it... →
02/06/2012 - 13:13
In negotiations held out of court, the state agreed to recognize the non-Orthodox rabbis, but refused to recognize their rabbinates. The... →