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This website is Aish HaTorah's homepage--an international network of Jewish educational centers seeking to re-ignite (aish meaning fire) Jewish pride by teaching Jews about their heritage. The website is a comprehensive source of Aish HaTorah information, publications and articles. The site is also the home of the famous live link to the Western Wall.
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Prof. Branover – an agnostic scientist turned Lubavitcher – begins his discussion by setting out his intentions for this and the following seven lectures on Torah and science. He tells his audience that this introductory lecture will mainly raise questions and probably generate very few answers debating the alleged contradiction the scientific and secular world have (especially in the past seven ...
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Prof. Branover – an agnostic scientist turned Lubavitcher – begins his discussion by setting out his intentions for this and the following seven lectures on Torah and science. He tells his audience that this introductory lecture will mainly raise questions and probably generate very few answers debating the alleged contradiction the scientific and secular world have (especially in the past seven ...
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1) "Human Cloning: Is it Kosher?" Prof. Miriam Z. Wahrman, 10pp. Discusses the dilemma between cloning for good (saving human lives) and bad (turning humans into instruments) vis-à-vis halacha. Wharman asks: Is it acceptable on any level? Will it lead to the creation of life? What about G-d's role in all this? And what impact will it have on the 'be fruitful and multiply' command? She ...
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This volume comprises 15 articles, a few poems and letters to the editor. Its main focus is the Lubavitcher Rebbe and his approach to Science and Torah; medical ethics. Key topics include:
1) “The Lubavitcher Rebbe on Science and Technology/Science and Technology in the Light of Hasidism” (by: Prof. Herman Branover). This summary of what one of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s major students learned...
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In our supposedly secular age governed by reason and technology, fundamentalism overwhelms every major world religion. Armstrong addresses this by illuminating the spread of militant piety as a phenomenon peculiar to life today.
Contrary to popular belief, fundamentalism is not a throwback to some ancient form of religion but rather a response to the spiritual crisis of the modern world. ...
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In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, nationality, religion, or all three. The peculiar combination of ethnicity, nationality, and religion that would characterize Jewishness through the centuries first took shape in the second century B.C.E. This brilliantly argued, accessible book unravels one of the most complex issues of late antiquit...
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In a series of brief personal reflections, the author sets out to demonstrate the uniqueness of Jewish values and practices, and to show how these differ from those of contemporary America. His goal is to present readers with the challenge of "how to be unique and yet as one with American society".
The author addresses such fundamental concerns as, "Why be Jewish?", and attempts to ma...
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This book examines the conflict of religious identity experienced by adults who are the product of intermarriage. The book is based on hundreds of interviews, excerpts of which are quoted throughout the book.
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This is an instructional program for pre-kindergarten through ninth grade. Its focus is on the content and concepts of Jewish liturgy from a liberal conservative perspective. Allows teachers a conceptual and educational framework of the entire tefillah program even while focusing on one grade level.
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Leading rabbi and writer, Kushner, has written a book for children culled from Jewish wisdom (from the Bible, Midrash, Talmud and Hasidic literature) in order to inform, guide and inspire.
The book is divided into Four Parts: Seeing; Hearing; Doing; Person. Each part includes four selections; for example, the selections under Seeing are: Opening Your Eyes; Paying Close Attention; One W...
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It is an unusual experiment, the manuscript of this book was sent to thousands of educators, rabbis, cantors and congregational leaders with a questionnaire asking for comments, critiques, and emendations. The result was "The Book of the Jewish Life", a book about life-cycle events and ceremonies for 4th to 6th graders. Illustrated in full color, each chapter describes important events or ceremoni...
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An English-language journal for Jews, scientists, artists, teachers and students. It examines scientifically mathematically, philosophically, artistically and photographically and from a Jewish perspective subjects of personal and intellectual concern. It focuses on the relationship between Torah and science. It discusses science from a Torah perspective. Table of contents in 2004 in the 160 page ...
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Presents scholarly articles on issues related to Jewish life and thought primarily, though not exclusively, from a Reform Jewish perspective. Includes responsa, poetry and book reviews.
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Mordechai Gafni, a rabbi, is seeking a common language between the religious and secular in Israel. This quest, he writes, "requires recognizing that questioning God is not a sign of anti-religion but the peak of Jewish spirituality and he gives many examples - from the Bible and from more recent Jewish history - of how questioning God's ways is an essential part of Judaism. Even Moses argued with...
