When people learn online about Jewish life, culture, ritual, and more, they are engaging in substantive, meaningful Jewish education on their own schedule and often exploring topics they may not feel comfortable discussing in person. These are just a few...
The website Morethodoxy is seeking to refresh itself, providing new life and content into a nearly decade-old website. In addition to this attempt at refreshing, the creators behind the website have created a Facebook page to help drive traffic to...
To spark conversations connecting the ancient Passover Exodus story to modern struggles for freedom, Be’chol Lashon and Repair the World are teaming up to offer specially-designed seder supplements this Passover. The materials, part of the Passover campaign, #MemoryToAction, encourage seder...
Having written yesterday that Matters of Interest is entering a third phase, one of the new aspects of coming back is also spinning off new websites for certain content. When I began this site, it served as a place for...
A new website launched recently, seeking to contribute to a robust discourse amongst those in Orthodoxy. Launched on Thursday, Lehrhaus seeks to serve as “a forum to generate thoughtful and dynamic discourse among individuals, within the Orthodox community and beyond,...
A new project was announced last week to compile and translate hundreds of Jewish texts regarding prayer to be made publicly available. Announced last week by Sefaria, the project is first undergoing crowdfunding on Jewcer to enable it to come...
This past month has seen a new initiative from a Modern Orthodox rabbinical school to deal with contemporary halakhic issues. Dealing with questions coming in from its graduates, the Rosh HaYeshivah of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Rabbi Dov Linzer, has been...
Two weeks ago, nearly four dozen audio recordings from this summer’s Yeshivat Chovevei Torah‘s Yemei Iyun in Tanakh and Jewish Thought were uploaded. Having dispensed with previous years’ arrangement of lectures on specific books within the Jewish Bible (תנ”ך (TaNaKh)), this...
Last week, a new website started up to discuss Talmud from a historical and contextual approach. With two posts thus far, TheGemara.com is a project of Project TABS. So far, Dr. Shai Secunda, who completed his doctorate at Yeshiva University,...
Last week, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance hosted an online “blogcast” where online users could submit questions regarding sex and they would be answered. Moderated by MaHaRaT Ramie Smith, the discussion took place over the course of three days and...
