Noted teacher, author and lecturer in the areas of Bible and Jewish liturgy, Dean Rachel Friedman, founder of Lamdeinu: The Center for Jewish Learning in Teaneck, New Jersey, was the speaker at the Orthodox Jewish Forum of Highland Park/Edison’s program on December 17. She presented a talk called “Through the Prism of Law and Narrative: Yibbum, Chalitzah and the Biblical Woman.” Inspired by that week’s Torah portion, Friedman talked about the experience of levirate marriage for women as described in Torah and Tanach in the stories of Judah and Tamar, in the legal section of Devarim 25 and in Megillat Ruth.
This reporter went around the city sampling some of the finest bakery cheesecakes Jerusalem has to offer. Such is the heavy burden of journalism, the sacrifices we are forced to make.
The Magerman Edition of the new Koren Tanakh is a project that stretched over more than a decade, and makes the study of Tanakh easier – and more pleasurable than ever before.