What happens when the beit midrash meets the beat? Rappers & Rabbis, a Pardes and Bible Raps collaboration, brings Torah study and hip-hop together for a lively, unconventional take on havruta learning. Hosted by rapper Matt Bar, Rabba Yaffa Epstein,…
Critical issues, Arts & culture, Podcast series, Rappers and Rabbis
The hAvRuTa: a Pardes Torah / Art Encounter Series pairs Jerusalem artists with Pardes educators to explore the intersection of art and Jewish text — conversations that continued even after October 7th.
Critical issues, Arts & culture
In Autumn 1849 a slender six-page work was printed in Czernowitz, Bukovina under the title Tzavaa, will. Earlier that year, in March 1849 Bukovina became a separate Austrian crownland; today the region straddles the border between Romania and Ukraine. The…
Critical issues, Arts & culture, Self & spirituality, Hasidut
The encounter between Greek and Jewish culture bore many fruits. This class by Mike Feuer explores the significance of this meeting, particularly through the lens of language and the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible – the Septuagint. Thanks to…
Critical issues, Arts & culture, Jewish calendar, Chanukah
Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt (1882-1933) was offered an opportunity that would make any performer swoon: a star role in the ground-breaking film The Jazz Singer (1927). Yet Rosenblatt refused this artistic opportunity of the lifetime. This paper contextualises Rosenblatt’s baffling decision,…
Critical issues, Arts & culture, Jewish living, Halakha, Self & spirituality, Hasidut
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