Religion

JEWISH THOUGHT

Mesorah as Halachic Source and Sensibility

Jewish tradition asserts that the greatest moment and most important event in history was not the creation of the world…

FAITH

A Jewish Response to Human Catastrophe

Rabbi Harvey Belovski’s article following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti teaches us how to properly respond to calamities of such…

RELIGION

Man in the Technological Age

What is it that distinguishes mankind from the rest of the animal world? Most readers would respond that it is…

RELIGION

The Impact of Technology on the Religious Personality

In an essay written on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, Andrzej Szczypiorski, a Polish writer,…

EDUCATION

Technology in the Classroom

At The Frisch School, a teacher uses a Smart Board to teach a Navi class. Courtesy of Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky…

EDUCATION

Better Technology, Better Schools?

In critical ways, technology has transformed how we live. This has been true, in a sense, for more than two…

EDUCATION

Virtual Schooling

An Argentinian student of the Jewish Online School taking a Torah class. Courtesy of the Jewish Online School With the…

RELIGION

The Future of the Sefer

Is the Sefer History? The future of the Sefer, the Jewish book, is currently uncertain, but not for the reasons…

POLITICS

Is There a Rabbi in the House?

“This is a story about kiddush Hashem, not about any individual,” says the rabbi who stood at the center of…

CHANUKAH

Chanukah Delights

In honor of Chanukah, it is traditional to eat foods fried in oil, including luscious latkes and sufganiyot (Israeli-style donuts…

JEWISH THOUGHT

Preserving Our Mesorah in Changing Times: Hershel Schachter

What is Mesorah? Mesorah is not primarily a corpus of knowledge to master but a process of accessing a chain…

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