This was originally published on April 16, 2015. Rina Quint speaks annually at Pardes to the student body, staff and faculty. Her life story is timeless and we are proud to have had the opportunity to record it this time.…
Jewish History, Holocaust, Jewish Calendar, Yom Hashoah
In the third episode of this season’s installment of This Pardes Life, which was recorded live, Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield talks to Dean Dr. David Bernstein. David explores with us a powerful text from the Holocaust and shares how being the…
Jewish History, Holocaust, Podcast Series, This Pardes Life
In this class that was recorded at Pardes, Dr. David Bernstein discusses The Shoah and the Creation of the State of Israel: A More Nuanced Approach.
Jewish History, Holocaust, Podcast Series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Jewish Calendar, Yom Hashoah
In this class that was recorded live at Pardes for Yom Hashoah 2017, Nechama Goldman Barash looks at the rabbinic responses in Vaykira Rabbah to the tragic and unexpected deaths of Nadav and Avihu. The midrash brings multiple voices to…
Jewish History, Holocaust, Podcast Series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Jewish Calendar, Yom Hashoah
In this class given by Meesh Hammer-Kossoy at Pardes address the issue of what the Shoah teaches us and how the Jewish tradition contributes to the question of refugees in Israel. Israel is home to more than 50,000 African Refugees, mostly…
Jewish History, Holocaust, Jewish Calendar, Yom Hashoah
In this class held at Pardes Jerusalem for Yom Hashoah 2015, David Bernstein addresses the question of how could ordinary men turn into mass murderers? How could human beings stand idly by? How could clever politicians be duped by the…
Jewish History, Holocaust, Jewish Calendar, Yom Hashoah
As a follow-up to the Pardes Poland trip, Zvi Hirschfield discusses the theological responses to the Holocaust – What kind of a God could have allowed the Holocaust to happen and how can the Jewish people still lay claim to…
Jewish History, Holocaust
Born in 1920, Morris Wyszogrod recounts his life growing up in Warsaw in the Jewish community. He talks about how life changed when the war began and what life was like under German occupation.
Jewish History, Holocaust
Fourth preparatory session for 2014 Pardes trip to Germany with ‘Germany Close Up’ Organization.
Jewish History, Holocaust
Va’ad Ha’ezra wrote a Torah scroll in memory of the six million Jews who had been murdered in the Holocaust. During the Second World War, particularly as communities realized the magnitude of the tragedy that had befallen the Jewish People,…
Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Hasidic Lore Series, Self & Spirituality, Hasidut, Jewish History
The Aleksander Hassidim were on of the largest hassidic groups in Poland before the Shoah, today the Aleksander heritage has been preserved and children all over the world are named in their honor. During the inter-war period, the Aleksander Hassidim…
Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Hasidic Lore Series, Self & Spirituality, Hasidut, Jewish History
“First, one should acquire the quality of truth, and only after that should one work to distance falsehood.” Rabbi Pinhas Twersky of Ustyluh (1880-1943) was a scion of the famed Chernobyl hassidic dynasty. He grew up in the home of…
Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Hasidic Lore Series, Self & Spirituality, Hasidut, Jewish History
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