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Today’s Torah content is sponsored by Avygayl Zucker in honor of the 90th birthday of her grandfather, Yedidyah Halimi, whose dedication to ...

This can be regarded as a follow-up to my educational philosophy statement. It’s the text of an email I recently sent to one of my former s...

The most useful assignment I had in graduate school was to write a one-page summary of my educational philosophy. The original version was ...

Click here for a printer-friendly version of this blog post. Pictured: Bnot Sinai - a collegiate women's summer beit midrash. Vis...

Originally posted in May 2012.  Click here for a printer-friendly version of this blog post. Maurice Sendak: on Death, Life, and Spe...

This post is predicated on a basic familiarity with the two levels of doing a mitzvah or learning Torah: lishmah (for its own sake) and she...

I started writing a blog post about doing mitzvos lishmah (for their own sake) and she'lo lishmah (not for their own sake), and was sho...

Click here for a printer-friendly version of this blog post. Artwork: Godless Shrine , by Cliff Childs The Implications of Chazal...