Showing Results 21 - 30 of 41
Restricted
Text
It is not unusual for committed Jewish women to be uneasy about their position as Jews. It was to cry down our doubts that rabbis developed their pre-packaged orations on the nobility of motherhood…
Contributor:
Rachel Adler
Places:
Date:
1971
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Esteemed editor:
Permit me to say a couple of words about the educational work of the Arbeter Ring.
I think that the work, as now conducted, is wasted. As far as the Arbeter Ring’s courses go there…
Contributor:
B. Sheyfer
Places:
Buffalo, United States of America
Date:
1918
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Contributor:
Judah Monis
Places:
Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies (Cambridge, United States of America)
Date:
1735
Subjects:
Restricted
Text
The fundamental issue surrounding the use of archaeological material to illuminate the Bible duplicates the classic Torah u-Madda question: How ought we to make use of wisdom or learning that can…
Contributor:
Lawrence H. Schiffman
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2003
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
This book deals with the problem of religion in contemporary Jewish education. It grew out of my thinking and teaching about Jewish education, which made me realize that religion is always on the…
Contributor:
Michael Rosenak
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1987
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
What does the Voice of Auschwitz command?
Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories. They are commanded to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. They are commanded to remember…
Contributor:
Emil L. Fackenheim
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
1969
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
A good many years ago, in 1929, I chanced to read a book which disturbed me in a way I can still remember. The book was called Red Cavalry; it was a collection of stories about Soviet regiments of…
Contributor:
Lionel Trilling
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1955
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In the treatise Zeit ist’s [Franz] Rosenzweig outlined a detailed and imposing plan of an Academy for the Science of Judaism, the members of which would be both scholars and teachers. As scholars…
Contributor:
Nahum N. Glatzer
Places:
Date:
1956
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
It has not always been easy to break with the more than two-thousand-year-old manner of translating the Hebrew Bible, the word-for-word manner. Thus in Gen. 14.1–2 (cf. vv…
Contributor:
Harry Orlinsky
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1969
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
[ . . . ] It seems to me we are ready to rethink ourselves in America now; to preserve ourselves by a new culture-making.
Now you will say that this is a vast and stupid contradiction following all I…
Contributor:
Cynthia Ozick
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1970