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12/11/2008 - The Troubling Family Triangle: Sarai, Avram and Hagar We are happy to present you with three extensive packages of educational material about the Avram, Sarai and Hagar story of Genesis (Bereishit) 16 and 21 02/11/2008 - The First Jew: A journey begun with a fateful choice Abraham is rightly designated, according to the Bible, as ‘the pillar of the world.’ Learn about Avraham, to learn about how he has been interpreted and what Jews have wanted to become. See this entire curriculum for teaching Genesis 12 and 18 in-depth 02/11/2008 - Sources and links for ‘The First Jew’ Sources and links for ‘The First Jew’ curriculum by Noam Zion and Steve Israel 06/10/2008 - Tanakh teaching: An introduction This introduction to the comprehensive curriculum, Teaching Tanakh, provides a framework for understanding the diverse approach 23/09/2008 - Shema as a love story The three paragraphs of the Shema can be interpreted allegorically by connecting each of the three paragraphs to a different stage of a growing, loving relationship 22/09/2008 - The Jewish poet and the Jewish prime minister Given the concerns of today’s Jewish world, it is worth pondering the messages and paradoxes of Emma Lazarus’s first published essay on a Jewish subject, “Was the Earl of Beaconsfield a Representative Jew?” 14/09/2008 - The problem of evil: The world has a way of its own The problem of evil is partially a result of a discrepancy of expectations and experience, of ideals and reality, of what we believe about a providential world created and guided by God and how we interpret what we encounter 08/09/2008 - Bible translation as commentary The Bible is the most translated book in the history of the world, and it is important to remember that the vast majority of human beings who have encountered the Bible have done so through the medium of a specific translation 01/04/2008 - Encouraging a culture of questions There are no questions that may not be asked, no doubt that may not be raised - as long as the true motive for the question is a genuine desire to learn      1     2      Next

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