Musings from Students of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
Posted on July 3, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media
Alum Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz’s testimonial has been published in the San Diego Jewish World! You read it here first 🙂
Posted on May 26, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media
Students Louis Sachs and Merissa Nathan Gerson have both been recently published! Read about their experiences at Pardes!
Posted on May 19, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media
A Testimonial by Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz About a month ago my Talmud class did an exercise where we shared our reasons for studying Gemora. Everyone had their own reasons, and my list came up to a total of 21 reasons as wide ranging as “intellectual challenge” and “to have a sense of the Rabbinic world” or Continue Reading »
Posted on April 30, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media
This just in! Pardes Students Avi Strausberg and Julie Aronowitz have received the Wexner Fellowship! 🙂 MAZAL TOV 🙂
Posted on April 15, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media
Alum Ari Berkowicz (2009-10) made this great Pesach music video!
Posted on April 11, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media
Below is a guest post from 2 Pardes alumni: Rabbi Jon Kelsen & Dena Weiss are both alumni of the Pardes kollel program. Jon teaches at the Drisha Institute, and Dena teaches at Yeshivat Hadar. Together in chevruta, Jon & Dena wrote two prayers, in anticipation of bedikat / biur hametz this year. Here is their explanation. (read Continue Reading »
Posted on April 9, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media
Here is a photo that student Scott Roland* took of his Talmud teacher Rabbi Zvi Hirshfield putting tefilin on his son for the first time… It was a beautiful moment: *Scott is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College. He is studying in Israel this year.
Posted on March 22, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media
Happening RIGHT NOW: Panel of rabbinical students currently studying at Pardes. From Right to Left: Louis Sachs, Conservative, American Jewish University Daniel Shibley, Modern Orthodox, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Scott Roland, Post-Denominational, Hebrew College Ruhi Rubenstein, Reconstructionist, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Stefan Tiwy, Reform, Hebrew Union College Heena Reiter, Renewal, ALEPH
Posted on March 11, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media
Check out Ben’s article in Canada’s Jewish Independent! Read about Hillel UBC‘s event: We R Israel, held at Temple Sholom. Good job, Ben!
Posted on March 2, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media
Check out THIS POST to read the artists’ descriptions of the AMAZING new mural at Pardes! Remember the new mural at Pardes? Well, now it’s done – “props” go to Cheryl Stone & the Pardes Educators Program! You can click on the pictures below for larger versions: The 4 panels of the mural represent the 4 historic incarnations of Continue Reading »
