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A Post-Destruction model of Jewish Identity: Reading and studying Torah as if our life depended on it.
Dr.
Jacob L. Wright
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A Devar Torah on the occasion of the third anniversary of TheTorah.com
Rabbi
David D. Steinberg
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The interest in Project TABS – TheTorah.com has been widespread across many communities, but the extensive interest in the Orthodox community may seem surprising for some, and likely would not have been the case a decade ago. In this essay, Prof. Chaim Waxman, a prominent scholar of Jewish sociology, offers an analysis of why the approach taken by TABS has found such a large audience among the Orthodox at this time.
Prof.
Chaim I. Waxman
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Moses and R. Judah HaNasi implore: “I would be most grateful if you would maintain the Torah after me.”[1]
Prof.
Steven Fraade
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How Jews responded to the celebration of Jesus' birth by creating a cynical version of Christmas Eve lampooning him.
Shai Alleson-Gerberg
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Lernen versus learning, davenen versus prayer: an ethnographic analysis of how Orthodox Jews define themselves.
Prof.
Samuel Heilman
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To uphold the covenant, Deuteronomy requires two forms of torah study: Learning the commandments and learning the reasons for keeping them. But what happens if even that fails?
Dr.
Baruch Alster
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Deuteronomy envisions a king constantly reading torah and limiting his wealth and resources. Is this how kings are described in the rest of the Bible?
Dr.
Cynthia Edenburg
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