Pardes Live and Mini-Series

Rabbi Donniel Hartman, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute, addresses the Pardes student body in the days before Yom haZikaron and Yom haAtzmaut on the topic: "Justice: "X" Happened," an analysis of how we might deal with some of the problematic aspects of nation-state building. Is there a way for us to acknowledge wrong-doing on our part without abandoning the Zionist cause?

This podcast has been sponsored by Gary Carmell in loving memory of Roneet Kimeldorf Carmell z"l.

Rachelle is the Dean of Students at Nishmat, and the director of Matan’s Hilkhata Institute (Advanced Halakha Program). She is also a Yoetzet Halacha and was in the first graduating class of Matan’s Advanced Talmud Institute.

She has been called a modern day Israeli equivalent of the biblical matriarch, “Rachel.” Her 16-year old son Naftali z"l was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in 2014 along with two of his friends. During the 18-day search for the boys, and at the funeral and beyond, Racheli became the inspirational and unifying role model for all of Israel on every part of the political and religious spectrum.

She is a Torah scholar whose perseverance, gratitude, grace, modesty, and resilience have made her a heroine to so many Israelis.

Together with the other two mothers of the murdered boys, she has been given the honor this year to light one of the twelve torches at the nationally-televised ceremony on Mt. Herzl marking the end of Yom HaZikaron and the beginning of Yom HaAtzmaut.

This podcast has been sponsored by Gary Carmell in loving memory of Roneet Kimeldorf Carmell z"l.

What will seder night look like for you this year? What new insights, teachings or activities do you want to share at your table to make the experience of leaving mitzrayim come alive? Briefly touching upon many of the 15 steps of the Seder night we explore three aspects of our very own slavery and liberation - Physical, Spiritual, and Emotional.

Pardes’s Tovah Leah Nachmani together with Ayeka’s Dasee Berkowitz invite you to learn about their some of our most meaningful ideas they have used at their seders. They hope it can inspire your own!

Accompanying Source Sheet

Welcome to the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators podcast series: Hanukah, Pesach and Purim Walk into a Bar. Each episode Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield hosts guest educators who share one text that reveals the deeper meaning of that year cycle event. In this podcast “The Pedagogy of Processing Pesach” Zvi is joined by PCJE Director Aviva Lauer Golbert, and PCJE's Director of Digitial Content, Reuven Margett, who share texts, insights and the occasional joke, as they explore the deeper meaning of Pesach.

FAITH AND FREEDOM: Passover Haggadah with Commentary from the Writings of Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits (Urim Publications, 2019)

Faith and Freedom Passover Haggadah presents selections of the writings of Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits, one of the major Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century, as a new and meaningful commentary for the Passover Haggadah. The Seder night experience will be enriched with the reading of the traditional telling of the Exodus along with Rabbi Berkovits’ insightful and refreshing ideas that address crucial topics for the modern era.

Compiled and Edited by Rabbi Dr. Reuven Mohl

Foreword by Rabbi Dov Berkovits and Professor Avraham Berkovits

This evening lecture included the following schedule:

* 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Professor Avinoam Rosenak (Hebrew) and Rabbi Dov Berkovits (English)

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* 9:15 PM – 10:00 PM

Rabbi Dr. Reuven Mohl and Rabbi Rahel Berkovits

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In this class, one part of our story comes to an end. This is a look at the final phase of Spanish Jewish history through the lens of law and consciousness.

The Jews have a tradition that God always readies a new refuge before destruction comes on the old. This class looks at the early basis of Jewish life in Poland and the shift to their lives in Germany brought on by the Protestant Reformation. When we add to this the advent of the printing press we have a look at the foundations of the early modern era.

There are periods of continuity in Jewish history and there are periods of disruption. The fourteenth century is much more the latter than the former. This class explores the breakdown of Ashkenazi Jewry and traces their flight both east and west.

The Vanishing Jew

The third of a three part series about Megillat Esther and Purim will be taught by Michael Eisenberg. For more information and registration, visit www.pardes.org.il/Purim2019, or contact 02 673 5210 / [email protected]. All lectures took place at Pardes, 29 Pierre Koenig, Jerusalem.

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February 27: And Esther was Taken

March 4: From Shushan to Tel Aviv

March 13: The Vanishing Jew

The Purim 5779 Lecture series is Sponsored in Memory of Brondell Pomrenze by Huti and Jay Pomrenze.

Welcome to the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators podcast series: Hanukah, Pesach and Purim Walk into a Bar… Each episode Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield hosts guest educators who share one text that reveals the deeper meaning of that year cycle event. In this podcast “Purim - Time to Take Off your Mask” Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield is joined by students of the Pardes Day School Educators Program, Ari Weber and Nati Kanovsky who share texts, insights and the occasional joke, as they explore the deeper meaning of Purim.