eJP – Professional Development as a Catalyst for Community Change
Posted on February 21, 2021
This article was written by Clare Goldwater (Year ’91-’93) – January 2020, Montreal: It is snowing and freezing cold. The words “COVID-19” don’t mean anything to us yet. Twenty-four Jewish educators gather at a camp in the beautiful Laurentian mountains of Quebec to kick off the Passport to Jewish Life Fellowship. They are here to Continue Reading »
Rabbis Michael Swirsky and Leon Morris Receive Cohon Award
Posted on January 28, 2021
On January 24th, The Rabbi Samuel S. and A. Irma Cohon Memorial Foundation honored Rabbi Michael Swirsky, the founder of Pardes, and Rabbi Leon Morris, Pardes’s current president, with the 2020 Cohon Award for their work on behalf of klal Yisrael, and the peoplehood of Israel. Eric Levitz, the founder and Executive Director of the Continue Reading »
Times of Israel – Pardes Alum Evan Wolkenstein Wins Jewish Children’s Book Award
Posted on January 27, 2021
Pardes alum M. Evan Wolkenstein (Year ’98-’99, Fellow ’99-’00, PCJE ’00-’02, Summer ’04, ’05) won the Sydney Taylor Book Awards for the best in Jewish children’s literature in the category of middle school, for his book Turtle Boy. This book is also #1 on Amazon’s Jewish Children Fiction list. The Times of Israel story was Continue Reading »
The Media Line – Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Alive in Israel
Posted on January 20, 2021
This article features Pardes faculty members Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy and Rabbi Dr. Daniel Roth. This article was written by Joshua Shuman. On Monday, the US marks Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with a national holiday. Celebrated this year on January 18, the event comes less than two weeks after historic violence on Continue Reading »
Three Pardes Alumni Named Fellows for UpStart Change Accelerator Program
Posted on January 18, 2021
Pardes alumni Rachel Eisen (Summer ’12), Cara Gold (PCJCR ’12) and Laura Schuchart (Year ’12, PCJE ’13) were three of the 52 individuals named as part of four nations cohorts of UpStart’s Change Accelerator Program. This year, UpStart leveraged the application data to design cohorts focused on emerging challenges and trends in Jewish life: The Continue Reading »
Jweekly.com – The irrelevance of day school Jewish studies, and how to fix the problem
Posted on January 18, 2021
Written by Micha Levin (PCJE ’07-’09, Summer ’10, ’11) – At his last appearance at Kehillah Jewish High School before his death, San Francisco Jewish philanthropist Warren Hellman quoted New York Jewish philanthropist Michael Steinhardt: “Day school education has failed.” I was a highly dedicated Jewish studies teacher at the time and was shocked by Continue Reading »
eJP – Havruta Learning: Torah at Its Best
Posted on January 13, 2021
Written by Sherwin Pomerantz (Israel Board Chair of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies) – Ben Lusher’s recent article on investing in Jewish learning at Moishe House brought back some good memories for me. During my 20 years in Chicago before Aliyah 37 years ago, I had the privilege of serving as Chair of the Continue Reading »
Jerusalem Post – Judaism advises us to follow the doctors
Posted on January 11, 2021
Written by Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper (Pardes Faculty) – When the second cholera pandemic reached Prussia in 1831, Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher (1796-1874) was serving there in his first rabbinic post in Pleschen (today Pleszew, Poland), a position he had held since 1822 thanks to the initiative of his teacher, the great Talmudist and chief rabbi Continue Reading »
A Letter of Thanks from Rav Meir Schweiger
Posted on January 7, 2021
Dear Pardes Community, I would like to formally thank everyone – Pardes staff members, alumni, contributors worldwide – who were involved in the recent campaign to raise $1.5 million for the library, in the new building, to be named in honor of my beloved wife, Malkah, z”l, and myself. From the outset, this project was Continue Reading »
eJP – Scaling Small for Deep Impact
Posted on January 7, 2021
Written by Rabbi Benjamin Berger (Summer ’01, ’03) – While Gen Z, those born after 1995, are often known for being “digital natives,” like all humans before them they overwhelmingly crave in-person connection. Their adolescent digital lives are often disrupted in college by life-changing interactions, which we all recall from our own college experiences. Face-to-face Continue Reading »