As an ATID Fellow in the late 1990’s, Rabbi Ian (Haim) Pear undertook a study of how to best integrate Torah study with growing older. Here are his innovative findings.
Imprisonment for Debt in Israeli Law Debtor’s prison has a long – but not proud – history in many of the world’s legal systems, including Israel’s. During the 1970’s and 1980’s, for example, some 500,000 letters were sent threatening prison to those who could not pay their debts, and some 20,000-40,000 people actually served time in prison for their inability,…
One interesting distinction between Israeli and American law connected to Jewish Law arises in the field of defamation. US law, of course, tends to favor the defendant, the entity whose statements allegedly cause damage to the plaintiff. With the guiding principle here the First Amendment and its concerns for freedom of speech and freedom of the press, the Supreme Court…
Admissibility of Confessions In June of this year the Supreme Court threw out a confession given by a teenage accomplice accused of involvement in the deadly 2015 firebombing of a Palestinian home in the town of Duma; the reason behind the ruling was due to the fact that the confession had been determined to have been offered under duress. In…
One doesn’t usually think of the rock group Supertramp when studying Mishna … but maybe we should. Towards that end, maybe you’d like to play this song in the background as you read the below post. The Mishna in question is the very first to appear in the Tractate of Shabbat, while the topic in question is the halacha relating to carrying…
Shir Hadash is honored to host one of Israel’s premier teachers of Torah each week as he uncovers, innovates and inspires in his unique and always original analysis of parshat hashavua. Wednesday nights at 8 PM, with Ma’ariv to follow.
Essential to Judaism – and to Shir Hadash – is the concept of joy. For that reason, I thought it might be of some value to share a few ‘sources’ about this value, and thereby elevate it from a vague concept to which one might be prepared to gives lip service to a more concrete, and more urgent characteristic to…
Have you visited our friend Rabbi Gedaliah Gurfein’s amazing creation to help facilitate Talmud learning? If not, it’s a must stop on your internet itinerary. Click here for a review by the Jerusalem Post.
From our friends at Chabad: 18 Tisha B’Av Facts Every Jew Should Know By Menachem Posner 1. Tisha B’Av Is the Saddest Day of the Jewish Calendar Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of the month of Av (Aug. 10-11, 2019), is the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. Referred to by the prophet as “the fourth [month] fast,”1 it is second in severity only to Yom Kippur,…