We are at the point in the Jewish Calendar: Yom HaShoa, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, where the meaning and spiritual purpose of Jewish People-hood are at the center of our thoughts and aspirations. Join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield for an … Read the rest Continue reading This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 9 Special for Yom Ha’Atzmaut with Marc Rosenberg at Elmad Online Learning.

This Pardes Life

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 9 Special for Yom Ha’Atzmaut with Marc Rosenberg

The asylum seekers issue is dividing Israel and the Jewish world and presenting a tremendous challenge to the cohesiveness of Israeli society.  Is Israel simply pursuing a rational immigration policy and protecting its resources and citizens, or are we failing … Read the rest Continue reading This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 8: Jean-Marc Liling at Elmad Online Learning.

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 8: Jean-Marc Liling

Join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield for a special episode of This Pardes Life for Tu B’Shvat with Aviva Lauer Golbert, a master educator and Director of the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. In this podcast, they discuss cultivating a Jewish approach … Read the rest Continue reading This Pardes Life Season 3: Episode 7 Special for Tu B’Shvat with Aviva Golbert at Elmad Online Learning.

This Pardes Life Season 3: Episode 7 Special for Tu B’Shvat with Aviva Golbert

Join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield for an exciting discussion with Dr. Rachel Korazim, a master educator who uses close readings of Israeli literature as a vehicle to explore the questions of modern Jewish identity and contemporary Israel. In our discussion of … Read the rest Continue reading This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 6: Dr. Rachel Korazim at Elmad Online Learning.

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 6: Dr. Rachel Korazim

The Pardes Day School Educators Program has produced an impressive number of North American Jewish day school educators who are bright, passionate, creative and caring. Listen in as three of our best share their thoughts on Jewish education and their … Read the rest Continue reading This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 5: Jewish Educators Speak at Elmad Online Learning.

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 5: Jewish Educators Speak

Matt Bar is a poet, rapper, Jewish educator and a student of Torah. In this episode of This Pardes Life, Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield and Matt explore how Jewish texts and Jewish wisdom inform his art and how he pursues … Read the rest Continue reading This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 4: Rapper Matt Bar at Elmad Online Learning.

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 4: Rapper Matt Bar

In the third episode of this season’s installment of This Pardes Life, which was recorded live, Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield talks to Dean Dr. David Bernstein. David explores with us a powerful text from the Holocaust and shares how being the … Read the rest Continue reading This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 3: Dean Dr. David Bernstein at Elmad Online Learning.

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 3: Dean Dr. David Bernstein

In the second episode of this season’s This Pardes Life, Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash, an Orthodox Jewish feminist who has been studying and teaching Jewish rabbinic and halakhic texts for years, shares her fascinating struggle of holding both a deep … Read the rest Continue reading This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 2: Nechama Goldman Barash at Elmad Online Learning.

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 2: Nechama Goldman Barash

We’re excited to launch the 3rd series of This Pardes Life. In the first episode, join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield as he explores the challenging issues of prayer in Judaism with Rabbi Leon Morris, President of Pardes. Through the lens of … Read the rest Continue reading This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 1: Rabbi Leon Morris at Elmad Online Learning.

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 1: Rabbi Leon Morris

In the last episode of this season, join us and explore how the well-known and highly respected teacher and spiritual mentor Yiscah Smith found inspiration in the writings of Rav Kook to live in the tension between the demands of … Read the rest Continue reading This Pardes Life — Season 2, Episode 13 with Yiscah Smith at Elmad Online Learning.

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