PHOTOS: 12+ Feet Down, Many More to Go
Posted on January 11, 2022
Over the past few weeks, 12, 18, and 22-meter holes have been drilled around the perimeter of the lot, followed by the insertion of steel frame piles. At the end of each day, the cement trucks arrive to fill the piles with cement. As the piles begin to provide a solid structure around the outside Continue Reading »
Jerusalem Post – In the Wake of an Earthquake: Meet Rabbi Avraham Dov
Posted on January 11, 2022
Written by Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper – Avraham Dov survived the 1834 looting of Safed and the 1837 Galilee earthquake, but he died in late 1840 when a plague struck Safed. Rabbi Avraham Dov of Owrucz (Ovrutsh) (1760-1840) was a hassidic master during the formative years of the movement. He first served in the rabbinate Continue Reading »
eJewishPhilanthropy – Shmitta and Organizational Change
Posted on January 6, 2022
Written by Pardes Alumna Elyssa Hurwitz (PCJE ’19-20) – What would it look like for employees to have individualized or intentionally chosen professional development every six months, with the purpose of supporting growth in the areas they need? How would it impact the retention of employees to offer bonuses or benefits of some kind at Continue Reading »
San Diego Jewish World – 3 Subjects Worthy of Deep Study: Torah, JCC’s, Mideast History
Posted on December 1, 2021
Written by Doron Krakow (father of current year student Aaron Krakow (’21) – My son, Aaron, is a student at Machon Pardes (The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies), where he is spending a semester studying Jewish texts—a spiritual journey taking the place of the kind of post-army trek to southeast Asia typical of many young Continue Reading »
Jerusalem Post – Justice in the Biblical Story of Dinah
Posted on November 21, 2021
Written by Pardes faculty member Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash – “Out went Dinah the daughter of Leah whom she bore to Jacob, to see the girls of the land. Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, Prince of the Land, saw her. He took her and lay with her and degraded her.” (Genesis 32: 1-3) Continue Reading »
Jerusalem Post – Which Israel educator are you?
Posted on November 11, 2021
Written by Ilan Bloch (Community Education ’06-’07, ’15-’16, Year ’20-’21). This article was inspired by Pardes faculty member Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash. A tour guide or teacher might also have higher expectations of her students. She may embrace the Socratic method continuously, even when students are exhausted. Our Sages teach (Taanit 23a) that halfway through Continue Reading »
Lookstein.org – Careful Consumption of Social Media
Posted on November 9, 2021
Pardes student Hannah Greenberg (PCJE ’20-’22) was featured in The Lookstein Center online newsletter, discussing social media, Israel and education. In an age of social media and social justice activism, when it comes to teaching our students about Israel, it can be challenging to find open and healthy discourse. When Ben & Jerry’s pulled selling Continue Reading »
Washington Post – Pardes Student Speaks About Recent Clash at the Western Wall
Posted on November 8, 2021
Pardes student Joe Brophy (PCJE ’19-’21, Fellows ’21-’22) is featured in this Washington Post article about his experience being at a Women of the Wall service, that was met with harsh protest from an ultra-Orthodox group in Israel. In a historic first, hundreds of Israeli police actively protected Women of the Wall against thousands of Continue Reading »
Pardes Alumnus Jeff Green (Year ’86-’87, ’87-’88) and His Aliyah Featured in the Jerusalem Post
Posted on November 7, 2021
The Jerusalem Post – Written by Howard Blas — As a teenager, Jeff Green was a committed and observant Conservative Jew with plans of becoming a Conservative rabbi – until a friend showed him a brochure for Pardes. The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem refers to itself as “an open, inclusive, diverse and Continue Reading »
Israel21 Online – A Bank With a Charitable Ethos and No Building
Posted on November 3, 2021
Written by Pardes Alumnus Briam Blum (Year ’85-’86, Community Education ’18-’20) – Shawn Melamed’s home office is filled with high-tech equipment – computers, microphones, cameras for Zoom. But the most visible keyboard is not connected to his laptop. It’s a full-sized one meant for making music. Melamed, who cofounded and serves as CEO of Spiral, a Continue Reading »