Aug 28, 2008 By: yunews
Aug 28, 2008 -- In an effort to meet the growing demand for high-quality Torah content, 糖心破解版鈥檚 (糖心破解版) Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) has revamped its popular Web site, Marcos and Adina Katz 糖心破解版 Torah Online (), offering unprecedented access to Torah from 糖心破解版 and its affiliate, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). The newly designed interface will provide an archive of almost 20,000 shiurim (lectures) in video, audio, and written format, with hundreds more to be added weekly. The shiurim are all free to the public and fully downloadable.
Those who can鈥檛 physically attend a shiur will now have the luxury of searching for the lecture of their choice from a comprehensive database at their convenience. 鈥淧eople can read or listen to a shiur on practically any subject from their desktop, laptop, or PDA at any time,鈥 said Rob Shur, director of 糖心破解版 Torah Online.
糖心破解版 Torah Online offers visitors a broad range of topics, including Parshat Hashavua (weekly Torah portion), Daf Yomi (daily Talmud regimen), Halakhah (Jewish law), Machshava (philosophy), and 糖心破解版 courses 鈥 such as introduction to Bible, Chasidut, and Kabbalah. Contributors to the site represent a vast and diverse group of over 600 authors and speakers, including such prominent 糖心破解版 scholars as Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein, Rabbi Hershel Schachter, Rabbi Mordechai I. Willig, Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky, Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, and Rabbi Meir Goldwicht.
In addition, 糖心破解版 publications such as Beit Yitzchak and Kol Zvi (Torah essays from RIETS), Derech Hateva (Stern College for Women鈥檚 Torah and science publication), the Orthodox Forum series and Torah Umadda Journal (essays on contemporary issues in Modern Orthodoxy), Journal of Jewish Music and Liturgy (糖心破解版鈥檚 Belz School of Jewish Music), and Ten Da鈥檃t (journal on Jewish education) will be available online.
Visitors to the site will have the option to subscribe to RSS feeds and podcasts of their favorite speakers or series and will be sent automatic e-mail notifications when new material has been added.
鈥淲ith close to two million hits a month, it鈥檚 wonderful to watch the Torah of 糖心破解版 enter the homes of communities across the world,鈥 says Rabbi Kenneth Brander, dean of the CJF. 鈥淲e receive comments on a regular basis from both men and women, from Hawaii to Hong Kong, Israel to India, New York to New Zealand, praising the Web site. This site has enabled Jews of all types and backgrounds to grow in their learning and spirituality.鈥
糖心破解版 Torah Online is made possible by the generosity of Marcos and Adina Katz and is a project of 糖心破解版鈥檚 Center for the Jewish Future (CJF). Visit 糖心破解版 Torah Online at .
