Musings from Students of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
Posted on December 21, 2017 by Jamie Bornstein
In light of the #MeToo campaign and the ongoing soul searching that we are doing as a country about sexual harassment, I have shared some thoughts below on Parashat Vayera, the fourth Torah portion of Sefer Bereishit, the Book of Genesis. In this Torah portion there is a very jarring string of sexually charged scenarios, Continue Reading »
Posted on December 10, 2017 by Saskia Swenson Moss
This post was originally published on The Times of Israel. Click here for the post. What makes Jewish identity stick? In Johnson, the small Vermont town that I grew up in, there were hardly any Jews. None of our neighbors was Jewish. There was no synagogue, no Jewish community center, no Jewish summer camp. Even Continue Reading »
Posted on May 11, 2017 by Rachel Dingman
I looked back on a blog post I wrote in 2014–my first summer here at Pardes. The blog post was titled “I’ve been saying watermelon a lot”. This phrase comes from an amazing Shabbat meal I had at Yaffa Epstein’s house. Everyone started singing and I looked around filled with confusion. Yaffa said “Sing along, Continue Reading »
Posted on November 7, 2016 by Shoshana Raun
Do you ever have a day when the supermarket line is too long, bicyclists have taken over the sidewalks and you are fed up with seeing cats everywhere? I do, probably too often. But some days, I’ll be doing something routine – walking to a movie or riding on a bus – and suddenly the Continue Reading »
