How did rabbinic discussions of women’s dress, hair, and voice shape later understandings of modesty? In Uncovered: Sources of Nakedness in Halakha, Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash examines three subjects that affect women’s presence in traditional Jewish communities. The series places…
Jewish living, Halakha, Podcast series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Self & spirituality, Sexuality
Would a court judging according to Jewish Law find Voldemort guilty for the murders of James and Lily Potter? Voldemort had the intention to kill, yet the legal question is: Would Jewish Law consider the Killing Curse to be an act of…
Jewish living, Halakha
The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies was thrilled to welcome Dr. Rachel Levmore who came to talk to students on the important topic of Prenuptial Agreements for the Prevention of Get-Refusal: One solution to the worldwide problem.
Jewish living, Halakha, Marriage and divorce, Critical issues, Modernity
Contributor to the 2014 Global Day of Jewish Learning. In a shocking biblical narrative, a king of Israel embarks on a spiral of crimes culminating in murder. Judy Klitsner examines the appetites and processes that lead from misdemeanor to crime;…
Jewish living, Halakha, Critical issues, Mahloket Matters/conflict resolution
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
An examination of some of the halakhic sources which govern premarital sexual behavior, with an eye to understanding the texts on their own terms, as well as an openness to challenging them from modern reality, and thinking about ways to…
Jewish living, Halakha, Self & spirituality, Sexuality
An examination of some of the halakhic sources which govern premarital sexual behavior, with an eye to understanding the texts on their own terms, as well as an openness to challenging them from modern reality, and thinking about ways to…
Jewish living, Halakha
An examination of some of the halakhic sources which govern premarital sexual behavior, with an eye to understanding the texts on their own terms, as well as an openness to challenging them from modern reality, and thinking about ways to…
Jewish living, Halakha, Self & spirituality, Sexuality
An examination of some of the halakhic sources which govern premarital sexual behavior, with an eye to understanding the texts on their own terms, as well as an openness to challenging them from modern reality, and thinking about ways to…
Jewish living, Halakha
By Mick Weinstein The hag of Hanukah has come to be associated with a whole variety of celebration throughout the Jewish world – the gathering together of families, additional expressions of gratitude in prayer (including Hallel), the eating of latkes,…
Jewish calendar, Chanukah, Jewish living, Halakha
By Linda Pardes Friedburg “…U’teshuva, u’tefilla, u’tzedaka maaviirin et roah hagzera.” ” …But repentance, prayer, and the giving of tzedaka mitigate the severity of the decree.” This refrain from the machzor follows us throughout the period of the High Holy…
Jewish living, Halakha, Self & spirituality, Hasidut, Mishnah, Pirkei Avot
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