Articles
From Black Fire to White Fire: Conversations about Religious Tanakh Methodology, by Rabbi Hayyim Angel
FROM BLACK FIRE TO WHITE FIRE:
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RELIGIOUS TANAKH METHODOLOGY
R. Pinehas says in the name of R. Shimon b. Lakish: The Torah that the Holy One, blessed be He, gave to Moses was given to him from white fire inscribed by black fire. It was fire, mixed with fire, hewn from fire and given by fire, as is written: “From His right a fiery law to them” (Deut. 33:2) (J.T. Shekalim 6:1, 25b).
Report on the Institute's Work
Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals
Progress Report
June 2008
From Rabbi Marc D. Angel, Director
The Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals opened in October 2007. These past eight months have been busy and productive, and I thank all who have supported and encouraged the work of the Institute. Through your contributions, you help foster an intellectually vibrant, compassionate and inclusive Orthodox Judaism.
WEBSITE: www.jewishideas.org
The International Rabbinic Fellowship--A New Orthodox Rabbinic Association
The International Rabbinic Fellowship
By Avraham Weiss and Marc D. Angel
(Rabbis Weiss and Angel are co-founders of the International Rabbinic Fellowship, an association of Orthodox rabbis who foster an intellectually vibrant, open, compassionate and inclusive Orthodox Judaism. The Fellowship held a preliminary conference in October 2007, at which it was decided to establish the IRF on a formal basis. The IRF’s inaugural conference was held in West Palm Beach, Florida, April 29-30, 2008.
A View from Israel
A View from Israel
Zvia Harriet Elazar
(An interior designer in Jerusalem, who made aliyah with her late husband Prof. Daniel Elazar in 1968.)
From Exclusion to Hierarchy: Orthodoxy and the Nonobservant Jew in Historical Perspective
From Exclusion to Hierarchy:
Orthodoxy and the Nonobservant Jew in Historical Perspective
Dr. Adam S. Ferziger
(Lecturer and Associate Director in the Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry at Bar Ilan University)
Old-Fashioned Discrimination, New-Style Battle, by Dr. Yifat Bitton
Old-Fashioned Discrimination, New-Style Battle
Dr. Yifat Bitton
The State of the Jewish Polity: a Modern Orthodox Perspective, by Rabbi Alan Yuter
The State of the Jewish Polity: a Modern Orthodox Perspective
By Alan Yuter
(Rabbi Yuter is Mara de-Atra of B’nai Israel, the Orthodox synagogue of downtown Baltimore. He is a faculty member in the department of Bible and Jewish Law at the Institute for Traditional Judaism.)
The Ninth Level--Tsedek, not just Tsedakah, by Naomi Schacter
The Ninth Level
Naomi Schacter
Toward a Kinder, Gentler, More Tolerant and Flexible Orthodoxy, by Aryeh Rubin
Toward a Kinder, Gentler, More Tolerant and Flexible Orthodoxy
Aryeh Rubin
The Discourse of Halakhic Inclusiveness, by Rabbi Dov Linzer
The Discourse of Halakhic Inclusiveness
Rabbi Dov Linzer
Rosh HaYeshiva and Dean, YCT Rabbinical School
