We are at the point in the Jewish Calendar: Yom HaShoa, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, where the meaning and spiritual purpose of Jewish People-hood are at the center of our thoughts and aspirations. Join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield for an…
Podcast Series, This Pardes Life, Jewish Calendar, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron
The asylum seekers issue is dividing Israel and the Jewish world and presenting a tremendous challenge to the cohesiveness of Israeli society. Is Israel simply pursuing a rational immigration policy and protecting its resources and citizens, or are we failing…
Podcast Series, This Pardes Life
Join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield for a special episode of This Pardes Life for Tu B’Shvat with Aviva Lauer, a master educator and Director of the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. In this podcast, they discuss cultivating a Jewish approach to…
Podcast Series, This Pardes Life, Jewish Calendar, Tu Bishvat
Join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield for an exciting discussion with Dr. Rachel Korazim, a master educator who uses close readings of Israeli literature as a vehicle to explore the questions of modern Jewish identity and contemporary Israel. In our discussion of…
Podcast Series, This Pardes Life
The Pardes Day School Educators Program has produced an impressive number of North American Jewish day school educators who are bright, passionate, creative and caring. Listen in as three of our best share their thoughts on Jewish education and their…
Pardes Center for Jewish Educators, Expand Your Mind, Teaching Resources & Education, Leadership, Strategies, Podcast Series
Matt Bar is a poet, rapper, Jewish educator and a student of Torah. In this episode of This Pardes Life, Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield and Matt explore how Jewish texts and Jewish wisdom inform his art and how he pursues both his…
Podcast Series, This Pardes Life
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 the second episode of this season’s This Pardes Life, Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash, an Orthodox Jewish feminist who has been studying and teaching Jewish rabbinic and halakhic texts for years, shares her fascinating struggle of holding both a deep…
Critical Issues, Feminism, Podcast Series, This Pardes Life
We’re excited to launch the 3rd series of This Pardes Life. In the first episode, join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield as he explores the challenging issues of prayer in Judaism with Rabbi Leon Morris, President of Pardes. Through the lens of…
Self & Spirituality, Jewish Prayer, Podcast Series, This Pardes Life
In the last episode of this season, join us and explore how the well-known and highly respected teacher and spiritual mentor Yiscah Smith found inspiration in the writings of Rav Kook to live in the tension between the demands of…
Personalities, Modern Personalities, Self & Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Podcast Series
In the latest episode of This Pardes Life for Pesach Sheni, Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield meets with Rabbi Aryeh Ben David. They discuss Rabbi Ben David’s organization which creates tools to make Jewish text and practice personally relevant and inspiring. Rabbi Ben…
Jewish Calendar, Pesach, Podcast Series, This Pardes Life
In the latest episode of This Pardes Life, Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbi Levi Cooper go LIVE from the new Pardes New York office. They talk about a text that is close to Levi’s heart. “Words I Heard from My…
Self & Spirituality, Hasidut, Podcast Series, This Pardes Life
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