These and Those

Musings from Students of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem

Archive: November 2011

The Pardes Sunset Project – Evening of 11/14/2011

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Heligman

Too often the shades of our life are drawn and God’s magnificent colors are missed.  I am taking on this project as a means to stop and enjoy God’s brilliance.  For the month of November, each day I will document the evening sunset from the Pardes Beit Midrash. I hope you will stop and notice Continue Reading »

Soul Patch!!

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Andrea Wiese

I know you’re digging the soul patch! So have a soul and dig a dollar deep into your wallet and donate!! http://us.movember.com/mospace/2037454/ All the healthy men in your life will thank you!! And so will I!! =)

[Student Profile] Sean Leber

Posted on November 14, 2011 by David Bogomolny

Having grown up in Newton, Massachusetts, Sean had a lot of exposure to Judaism. His family’s liberal church would often invite Jewish members of their extended community to speak from the pulpit, and Sean attended many Passover seders at a family friend’s house as a boy. And of course, he only dated Jewish women 🙂 Sean began dating Kelilah Continue Reading »

The Pardes Sunset Project – Evening of 11/13/2011

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Heligman

Too often the shades of our life are drawn and God’s magnificent colors are missed.  I am taking on this project as a means to stop and enjoy God’s brilliance.  For the month of November, each day I will document the evening sunset from the Pardes Beit Midrash. I hope you will stop and notice Continue Reading »

In case you were going through mustache withdrawal!

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Andrea Wiese

http://us.movember.com/mospace/2037454/ Please donate a $1 (or more) to help support research from prostate cancer and to help men’s health!!! I know that you’re all loving these mustache photos, so just $1!! Read about where your money will go…http://us.movember.com/about/Thanks in advance!!  

Shabbat Mustache!

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Andrea Wiese

Roi joined me today for men’s health awareness!!! I hope you like our mustaches!!! Shabbat shalom…and after Shabbat donate here!! https://www.movember.com/us/donate/your-details/member_id/2037454

To Learn & To Teach

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Soffer

Just posted at Darkeynu:   This week, in Parshat Vayeirah, we read one of the most famous, and most troubling, stories in the TaNaKh. G-d calls out to Avraham, commanding him to sacrifice his only son. As if that were not difficult enough, in two separate Midrashim we learn about how eager Avraham was to Continue Reading »

Week 10: The Other (i.e. Your Brother)

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Derek Kwait

(X-posted from my home blog, Yinzer in Yerushalayim) This was a dark week in Israel. As it happens, the anniversaries of both Yitzhak Rabin‘s assassination and Kristallnacht fall this week, and at Pardes, we had presentations on both. Tuesday, during Group Lecture, two of our rabbis discussed the impact the assassination had on them. Rabin’s Continue Reading »

[Pardes from Jerusalem Podcast] Vayera 5772

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Barer

Check out this week’s Pardes podcast, featuring Neima Novetsky speaking about the famous conversation Avraham has with Hashem about sparing the fate of Sdom and Amora Vayera 5772

Mustache 2!!!!!!!

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Andrea Wiese

I think this one is sexy!  That’s why I’m winking!! https://www.movember.com/us/donate/your-details/member_id/2037454 Donate, donate, donate!! =) Thank you!!!!!!!!