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Modeling the Jewish Learning and Humanity of Our Late Teacher Rabbi Michael A. Signer.
Shabbat with Professor Susannah Heschel
Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of biblical scholarship, modern European anti-Semitism, and European Jewish scholarship on Islam.
The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust
Dr. Dynner will introduce his newest study followed by a response from Dr. Cichopek-Gajraj. We invite people to ask questions of the author at the end of the webinar.
The Light of Learning tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic revival in Poland on the eve of the Holocaust. In the aftermath of World War I, the Jewish mystical movement appeared to be in shambles. Hasidic leaders had dispersed, Hasidic courts lay in ruins, and the youth seemed swept up in secularist trends as a result of mandatory public schooling and new Jewish movements like Zionism and Socialism. Author Glenn Dynner shows that in response to this, Hasidic leaders reinvented themselves as educators devoted to rescuing the youth by means of thriving networks of heders (primary schools), Bais Yaakov schools for girls and women, and world-renowned yeshivas.[…]
Shabbat Zachor
The last Shabbat before Purim is known as Shabbat Zachor, which can be translated into English as the ‘Shabbat of Remember! (imperative)’. On Shabbat Zachor, on top of the regular Torah portion, we read a special maftir, an additional reading. It recalls the vicious attack of Amalekites on the Israelites soon after their Exodus from […]
Szabat Zachor
Ostatni szabat przed świętem Purim znany jest jako Szabat Zachor, co można przetłumaczyć na język polski jako “Szabat Pamiętaj! (imperatyw)”. W Szabat Zachor, oprócz zwykłej porcji Tory, czytamy specjalny maftir, dodatkowe czytanie. Przypomina ono okrutny atak Amalekitów na Izraelitów wkrótce po ich wyjściu z Egiptu. Czytamy w nim: Pamiętaj, co ci uczynił Amalek w drodze, […]
Peace Means Completion
Thoughts on Parashat Pekudei
The impossible happened in the city of Chełm. The body of a young man was found. The rabbis and elders of the city conducted an investigation and determined that the young man had been murdered, and the motive was rivalry for the hand of a certain young woman. According to Jewish law, murder is punishable by death. The culprit was found – it was a local tailor. However, the rabbis and elders of the city decided to sentence the local shoemaker to death. Why? There were two shoemakers in Chełm, but there was only one tailor.[…]
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