By Tammy Jacobowitz For those privileged to grow up with Bible study as a steady companion, the Bible’s distance from the sensibilities, assumptions, and conditions of our world may take time to detect. Among the gifts of immersion in the verses, chapters, and books of the Torah is a strong sense of familiarity with the […]
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Camp was over, the children were being picked up by their anxious parents, and we, the exhausted staff, were finally relaxing a little. “So what are you up to now?” asked my fellow madrikh (counselor) We had been so busy running after restless teens that we had not discussed our future projects.“I’m going to a yeshiva
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I no longer consider myself an academic. I have a Ph.D. in rabbinic literature and I use the tools I got from academia every day in my teaching and writing about Torah texts, but I am no longer an academic.I grew up in a Modern Orthodox home and community. My father loved Torah, and I
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