| Date: May. 10, 2010 - Source: YnetNews By Meredith Ross |
| Historical building to become 'springboard for Jewish life in TA' |
Schechter Center in Templar structure in Neve Tzedek hopes to attract Israelis from all streams, whether secular or religious, and help foster cultural, spiritual dialogue The historical building Beit Lorenz in Tel Aviv's Neve Tzedek...
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| Date: May. 9, 2010 - Source: By JPOST EDITORIAL |
| Studying Judaism |
"If there is no flour, there is no Torah; if there is no Torah there is no flour." Ethics of the Fathers (3:22) The first half of this saying, coined by Rabbi Elazar Ben Azaria,...
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| Date: May. 7, 2010 - Source: The jerusalem Post By GAIL LICHTMAN |
| Cityfront: Higher learning |
On a hill in Neveh Granot where less than 50 years ago wolves roamed, the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies dedicated the first of the three buildings that will comprise its new $23.2 million campus...
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| Date: May. 5, 2010 - Source: The jerusalem Post By Jonah Mandel |
| Schechter Institute dedicates new buildings in J'lem, TA |
The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies dedicated on Tuesday the first building of its new campus next to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and Wednesday will see the dedication of its Legacy Heritage Building in...
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| Date: Dec. 30, 2009 - Source: YNet News, By Tzofia Hirshfeld |
| Tolerant People...Awarded Liebhaber Prize |
Tolerance is such a rarity in Israel that it merits a prize. This year, artists Jacky Levy and Shlomo Gronich are the recipients. Our young country is marked by a tradition of intolerance, with roots...
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| Date: Dec. 17, 2009 - Source: Jerusalem Post-Lauren Gelfond Feldinger |
| Visual Midrash...TALI Art and Judaism Web Site Goes Live |
With vines growing out of an old woman's boot, an assemblage of pita and a commanding, makeshift mezuza that stands taller than the 81-year-old artist, Jo Milgrom's Jerusalem home is an ad-hoc gallery, full of...
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| Date: Dec. 17, 2009 - Source: Jerusalem Post-Barry Davis |
| Adding Harmony to the Mix |
While, as most would agree, religious tolerance is a very important issue, few would deign to claim that it is a serious contender in the entertainment stakes. Then again, when you decide to present an...
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| Date: Dec. 13, 2009 - Source: The Jewish Observer |
| Israelis Jacky Levy and Shlomo Gronich Share Liebhaber Prize |
JERUSALEM -- As the Haredim are demonstrating in Jerusalem against operation of the Intel factory on Shabbat, others in Jerusalem are receiving a prize for promoting religious tolerance. On Dec. 13, as part of its...
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| Date: Jun. 11, 2009 - Source: The jerusalem Post-Gail Lichtman |
| The principals of pluralism |
In what could definitely be described as better late than never, more than 100 school principals and teachers, who completed the two-year TALI Educational Leadership Program between 2003 and 2008, were finally honored in a...
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| Date: Apr. 20, 2009 - Source: Jerusalem Post |
| FDR, Bergson and the Holocaust - on stage |
In the 1940s, your father and grandfather were involved in protests against the Roosevelt administration's abandonment of European Jewry. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, the foremost Jewish leader of that era, opposed those protests. Now you're...
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| Date: Mar. 31, 2009 - Source: The Jewish Week |
| PASSOVER 2009: Alternate Takes On Freedom |
By Steve Lipman The People of the Book produce no books in greater quantity than the Passover Haggadah. As surely as the seder brings Jews together every year, the seder table holds a selection of...
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| Date: Mar. 29, 2009 - Source: JTA News |
| The New Traditional Haggadah |
By Ben Harris Why is this Passover different than all other Passovers? On most Passovers, it is the liberal Jewish denominations that seek to reinterpret the holiday traditions, often viewing them through the prism of...
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| Date: Mar. 27, 2009 - Source: The Jewish Star |
| Kosher Bookworm: Annual Pesach Reading List |
By Alan Jay Gerber In his introduction to “Haggadah and History” (Jewish Publications Society, 1975) , historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi noted the following: “The Haggadah is in many ways the most popular and beloved of...
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| Date: Mar. 27, 2009 - Source: THE FORWARD |
| A Glimpse at a Few New Haggadot |
By Nathan Burstein If the Jews ever spend another 40 years wandering the desert, running out of reading material shouldn't be a problem. They can pass the time just looking through old Haggadot. The Haggadah...
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| Date: Mar. 27, 2009 - Source: TRADITION SEFORIM BLOG |
| Book Review: The Schechter Haggadah: Art, History, and Commentary |
By Elli Fischer Rabbi Elli Fischer is a freelance translator living in Modiin, Israel. He maintains the "On the Contrary:Judasim with Comments Enabled " blog. This is his second contribution to the TraditionOnline Seforim blog...
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| Date: Mar. 26, 2009 - Source: Canadian Jewish News |
| New Haggadot Arrivals |
By Mordechai Ben- Dat No festival in our calendar more firmly anchors in us a collective sense of memory and inter-connection than Pesach. This is how it has been ever since Moses imparted God's...
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| Date: Jan. 29, 2009 - Source: Haaretz - By Raphael Ahren |
| Unsung heroes |
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While the overwhelming tragedy of the Holocaust has for decades kept Jews focused on what happened in Europe, recently some historians have turned their attention toward the efforts of a few brave souls who worked...
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| Date: Jan. 28, 2009 - Source: Yediot Achronot |
| A Midrashic Picture |
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by Yoav Fridman Students at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem have transformed rabbinic midrash into works of art. In the words of one lecturer: "I wanted Torah study to be not only...
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| Date: Jan. 1, 2009 - Source: THE JERUSALEM POST |
| Proof texts By Prof. David Golinkin |
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Much has already been written about the war against Hamas in Gaza, but very few have asked the question: What can we learn from our sources about the current conflict? During the past eight years,...
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| Date: Dec. 1, 2008 - Source: Haaretz - By Raphael Ahren |
| Rabbinical duo leads drive to revive Conservative kibbutz |
Until they met a few years ago in rabbinical school, Yoav Ende and Yonatan Sadoff had led quite different lives. Now, after having been ordained earlier this month by the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem,...
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| Date: Nov. 3, 2008 - Source: Jerusalem Post |
| A Jerusalem school uses its roof to help maximize water resources |
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Ehud Zion Waldoks , THE JERUSALEM POST About 20 parents gathered at the TALI Geulim Elementary School in the Geulim (Baka) neighborhood of Jerusalem on Friday morning. This time, it wasn't for a parent-teacher meeting...
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| Date: Jul. 18, 2008 - Source: YnetNews |
| 'Who is a Jew?' once again. Retroactive annulment of all conversions performed by National Conversion Court since 1999 proof Chief Rabbinate now a haredi institution opposed to all lenient approaches within Jewish law |
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In May 2008, Rabbi Avraham Sherman and two other judges of the High Rabbinical Court of the Chief Rabbinate ruled that all of the conversions performed by Rabbi Chaim Drukman and Israel’s National Conversion Court...
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| Date: Jun. 5, 2008 - Source: Ynetnews |
| Schechter Institute celebrates publication of new book probing Jewish education in Israel, Diaspora by holding special panel; work hailed as 'pioneering' |
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The Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies sponsored a special conference on Jewish Education in Israel and the Diaspora Tuesday. The conference featured a special panel on Prof. Walter Ackerman's recently published book “Jewish Education –...
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| Date: May. 1, 2008 - Source: The Jerusalem Post |
| TALI ON THE AIR |
Figures huddled over desks furiously writing and rewriting scripts, others excitedly preparing to go on air, making sure microphones are in place and the sound level is just right... none of the above would seem...
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