Ben Porat Yosef, a day school in northern New Jersey, follows the Hillel Torah model, and now has 10 teachers on staff recruited from Israel. “I think we hold the record of day schools in the ...

and Genesis 9:6 in next week’s parashah – the Torah asserts the correlation of human life to its divine model. But once it shifts its focus to the subgroup of Israel, the Torah never once ...

With this, the Torah provided our sages with the model they used for other prohibitions. (Chidushei Harim, ad loc.) In fact, one way to understand the instruction to distance ourselves from ...

The model I propose would use tests and interviews to identify the true elite among the most gifted Torah scholars. The numbers can be negotiated (a thousand outstanding scholars? Two thousand?).