Articles
Award for Rabbi M. Angel's Book: Maimonides, Spinoza and Us
Maimonides, Spinoza and Us: Toward an Intellectually Vibrant Judaism
by
Rabbi Marc D. Angel
has been selected as a finalist of the
2009 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
in the category of
Scholarship
A Modern Orthodox Approach to Interfaith Dialogue
In 1964, Rabbi Dr. Joseph Soloveitchik (the Rav), the formative intellectual leader of postwar American Modern Orthodoxy, wrote that Jewish-Christian interfaith relations "must be outer-directed and related to the secular orders with which men of faith come face to face.
Breakfast Program with Lecture by Rav David Bigman
Rav David Bigman, Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva Hesder of Maale Gilboa, will be the guest speaker at a breakfast program sponsored by the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals. The event will be held at Congregation Shearith Israel, 2 West 70th Street, in Manhattan, on Wednesday morning December 23.
In the Synagogue: Navigating Between Halakha and Women's Participation
In the spring of 2003, a handful of young people in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who regularly attended the only Orthodox minyan in town, were looking for a change.