Musings from Students of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
Posted on November 7, 2012 by The Director of Digital Media
Jaclyn Rubin (part time Pardesnik) made Parsha puzzles for a full year’s worth of parshayot. Check out this one for Parshat Hayyei Sarah:
Posted on October 16, 2012 by Derek Kwait
Last year was my blogging year. This year is the one where I step aside and help other people blog Pardes. This suits me just fine since this is also the year where I have no time to blog (almost). It occurred to me, however, that if I am to run this blog, then I Continue Reading »
Posted on May 19, 2012 by Derek Kwait
(X-posted from my home blog, Yinzer in Yerushalayim) One of the unadvertised perks of Pardes is that after studying holy texts in their original in the Beit Midrash for a whole year, no matter how advanced your Hebrew level, you come away with a black-belt in using dictionaries. Yet I have noticed that for all Continue Reading »
Posted on May 8, 2012 by The Director of Digital Media
For those who may not have seen this yet, this debate is absolutely worth watching:
Posted on April 8, 2012 by The Director of Digital Media
Before Purim, alum Matt Bar (Year ’07-’08, Fellow ’08-’09) of BIBLE RAPS fame visited us at Pardes (and he stayed for the Purim spiel)! We videotaped him rapping for us during community lunch: We also got to talk with him about why he tries to visit Pardes regularly, and got him to share some thoughts Continue Reading »
Posted on April 3, 2012 by Laura Marder
Sitting in Café B’Gina on Beit Lechem I feel the need to do a review. Fist of all the café is very close to Pardes, located on 74 Derech Beit Lechem it is a 10 minute walk from Pardes. I first heard of this little small nature loving café from my favorite show Srugim. They Continue Reading »
Posted on January 25, 2012 by The Director of Digital Media
We see Jaclyn Rubin at Pardes on a regular basis; she studies with R. Elisha Ancselovits, and she’s often chevruta’ing in the beit midrash… but we only recently learned about her new project: PARSHAH PUZZLES for kids! This is really worth a look 🙂
Posted on December 25, 2011 by Sean L.
I was curious about why there are so few hard cheeses in this region, and after investigation, I started looking into making soft cheeses and realized just how easy it is to make yogurt (which can be Lebnah, or even a nice replacement for cream cheese). I’ve told a few people that I make yogurt, and Continue Reading »
Posted on December 6, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media
We’ve been tracking visitors to our blog, and we’ve been surprised to learn that These&Those is visited by people living in Germany more often than it is visited by Israeli residents! Here are the stats, as of today (Dec. 6, 2011): Visitors from U.S.: 37.33% Visitors from Germany: 23.62% Visitors from Israel: 16.32% Visitors from Continue Reading »
Posted on November 4, 2011 by Barer
This week on the podcast, we hear from Rav Landes as he discusses the beginning of Avram‘s journey – don’t forget the handout if you are listening. Lech Lecha 5766
