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From Brachos Bees, to Gedolim Cards, the Yeshiva World has borrowed from a uniquely American-style of education to support its own children's religious growth and appreciation for religion.
In 1977, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik delivered the inaugural Talmud shiur at Stern College for Women. His work before and after to spearhead a democratization of Torah learning placed the Rav in a minority group. His careful arguments to support…
The "chained wife" and "recalcitrant husband" is perhaps the most discussed and thorniest matter of Halakah in the American Jewish public square. The decades-long work to "solve" the issue is an important history of religious self-reflection and…
In the early-1980s, two Jewish day schools in Chicago took a high school basketball league to court for the right to play basketball while adorning kippot. The testimony and judgment suggests a lot about the American Jewish expectations of external…
How did the Purim Shpiel migrate to the United States? And how did it become a fitting annual activity for otherwise-straight-laced yeshiva students? The story is a good (and funny) one.
In the 1860s, a group of young Jews helped bring about a Jewish religious revival, first in New York, and then across North America, through a little known and little appreciated Jewish holiday: Purim.
We will explore how American Orthodox rabbis of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have navigated the difficult but fascinating topic of conversion to Judaism in America.
We will explore how American Orthodox rabbis of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have navigated the difficult but fascinating topic of conversion to Judaism in America.
We will explore how American Orthodox rabbis of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have navigated the difficult but fascinating topic of conversion to Judaism in America.
This week's topic: Intermarriage and Conversion in America in the…
We will explore how American Orthodox rabbis of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have navigated the difficult but fascinating topic of conversion to Judaism in America.