Friday, March 5, 2010
Vital Signs: Putting the School into Hebrew School
Jack Wertheimer
The second in a series on people and places fostering commitment to Judaism and the Jewish people.
One class is analyzing a talmudic debate after having read it in the original Aramaic; in a neighboring room, students are conversing entirely in Hebrew; in a third, an "Ethicist" column from the New York Times is being examined in light of rabbinic sources; in still another, young men and women are working their way through a biblical text.