Musings from Students of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
Posted on November 22, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media
Remember the Pardes Mural?Here are some photos from last Spring…
Posted on November 9, 2011 by Barer
This is PEP student Rabbi Julie Gordon‘s presentation on her theological views presented today in Zvi’s Critical Issues in Modern Jewish Thought class, responding to the following questions: Where does the Torah come from? What is God’s role, if any? And how do you deal with the challenges of biblical criticism? What authority does the Continue Reading »
Posted on October 29, 2011 by Andrea Wiese
So….today I learned the alef bet! Although I should have learned it a long long time ago, and despite that I “speak” Hebrew…I had never learned the order of the letters. Today, I thought, enough, it’s time. And Roi helped me learn the letters in order. It’s awesome! Have you ever felt like there is Continue Reading »
Posted on October 26, 2011 by Andrea Wiese
Although I passed the driving test in June, I just received my license in the mail yesterday!! I feel like this is a great achievement in becoming “Israeli” and I feel like I had to work harder for this than just becoming an Israeli citizen!! It was worth the wait!!
Posted on October 23, 2011 by Andrea Wiese
Today in Halakha (Jewish law) class, we started learning the laws of keeping Shabbat. There are “honor” כבוד laws, about preparing oneself for Shabbat and there are “pleasure” עונג laws about preparing your surroundings. I never knew there were actual laws written that you should have a nice meal, and wash yourself, clean the house, Continue Reading »
Posted on October 5, 2011 by Andrea Wiese
Today we had a tour of the Second Temple Period in Jerusalem. It was really great, but SO much info in a short amount of time! We went to the South Wall Excavations, The Israel Museum, and the underground mansions where the Kohenim (priests) probably lived. Ian Stern was our guide, and he is absolutely Continue Reading »
Posted on September 27, 2011 by David Bogomolny
Posted on September 26, 2011 by Andrea Wiese
Part of the Educators Program is to do sessions of peer teaching. This means that each person has a session/lesson that they teach to the other educators. Today was my first experience in being in a session. (We actually had two today because the teacher was sick last week, so she also did her lesson Continue Reading »
Posted on September 23, 2011 by Tamara Frankel
Dear Friends, I hope you are all well. For those of you who don’t know, I had a computer “emergency” last week – my laptop fell at school and I had to replace my hard drive. So due to technical difficulties, no dvar Torah last week. My apologies. Trust me, I wish I would have Continue Reading »
Posted on September 22, 2011 by Andrea Wiese
Yesterday we had our second PEP field trip. This one focused on the First Temple Period. The tour guide was great! I was really paying attention the whole time. We first stopped at The City of David and he gave of a lot of wonderful information. We ate lunch in the Jewish Quarter (everyone enjoyed Continue Reading »
