Parshot [Non-Orthodox and Orthodox]
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The Little Corner of the Web (by Jonathan Baker) includes Divrei Torah (little talks about Torah) and works by Maimonides.
Kaluach provides a calendar, plus other relevant data (by double-clicking the demo).
Non-Orthodox
Resources, from myriad perspectives, include Reform, Conservative (including scholastic) and Reconstructionist.
Resources also are available at United Jewish Communities, Kolel (of Toronto), the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Bar Ilan University, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.
Other compilations have focused upon the the Talmud, the Mishnah and Sex.
Orthodox
Traditional parshot, from multiple perspectives, may be obtained from the following hyperlinks: the Orthodox Union, AISH, Eshnav, Global Yeshiva, Shema Yisrael (which also "teaches" Hebrew), Shamash, Torah-Web, and Virtual Jerusalem (the hyperlink of which is being modified). Additional schools-of-thought include:
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So many frum links, so little time...Divrei Torah on the Parshios:
- Torah Study Opportunities on the Net - lots o' links
- Project Genesis - my favorite
- 613.org - Audio shiurim you can hear in Real-Time Audio
- Archived Divrei Torah - from dozens of sources
- Weekly Torah Summary - by Ohr Somayach
- HaRav Yissochar Frand shlit"a - a Rosh Yeshiva in Ner Yisroel in Baltimore, highly recommended
- Drasha - from HaRav Mordechai Kamenetzky shlit"a, quite excellent
- HaRav Yochanan Zweig shlit"a - Rosh Yeshiva in Talmudical University of Florida
- Torah-Fax - from Rabbi Zalman Marozov in Montreal
- Torah Tidbits - from the OU in Yerushalayim
- HaMaayan (The Torah Spring) - current issue and all back issues since 1990
- Likutei Peshatim - from Hebrew Theological College in Skokie
- Chicago Community Kollel Divrei Torah
- Milk 'n' Honey
- Yeshiva Shor Yoshuv Divrei Torah
- Outlooks & Insights - by Rabbi Zev Leff, very nicely done
- Midei Shabbos BeShabbato - by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
- The Weekly Parsha Page - with Rabbi Mordechai Kornfeld of Har Nof
- Peninim on the Torah - by Rabbi A. Leib Scheinbaum
- Hear and Your Soul Shall Live - from Rabbi Moshe Weber
- Beloved Companions - Insights on Domestic Tranquility from the Parsha by Rabbi Yisroel Pesach Feinhandler
- Divrei Mordechai - by Reb Mordechai Rosen zt"l
- A Drop of Dikduk - by Rabbi Mordechai Terebelo
- Parsha Pearls - by R'Meir Tzvi Berman
- This Weeks Haftorah - by Rabbi Levi Langer
- Seed Parsha - from the staff at England's Seed Project
- Toras Eretz Yisrael Metzad - by Rabbi Beryl Glaser & Rabbi Zvi Miller
- Vortify Yourself - by Rabbi Yosil Rosenzweig
- Chidushei Shaarei - by Yeshivas Shaarei Yerushalayim of Har Nof
- Prozdor - from a shul in Monsey
- Divrei Torah from B'nei Sharei Zion Sephardic Congregation
- Torah Discussions by former Chief Rabbi Mordechai Elliyaho
- Torah from Dixie
- Toras HaEmek - from Emek Hebrew Academy in Los Angelis
- Toras Aish - from Aishdas
- Aish HaTorah Los Angeles Divrei Torah
Varieties of Orthodox Judaism
[http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/363_Transp/08_Orthodoxy.html]
The major groupings of Orthodoxy from its inception until the present day are represented in the following diagram.
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Note that this diagram is an HTML image map. Clicking on any of its components in a graphic World Wide Web browser will link you to a detailed description of the movement in question. |
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The term "Orthodoxy" is applied to Jewish traditionalist movements that have consciously resisted the influences of modernization that arose in response to the European Emancipation and Enlightenment movements. It is not usually employed to designate Jewish traditionalism prior to the modern era, nor does the phenomenon appear in communities that were unaffected by the Reform movement; e.g., in North Africa, or in Eastern Europe before the mid-nineteenth-century.
The adjective "Orthodox" ("correct belief") is taken from the conceptual world of Christianity, where it denotes a conservative and ritualistic religious outlook, as viewed from the perspective of liberal Protestantism. It appears to have been first applied derisively to Jewish conservatives by a Reform polemicist in an article published in 1795.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch commented bitterly in 1854 that
...it was not "Orthodox" Jews who introduced the word "orthodox" into Jewish discussion. It was the modern "progressive" Jews who first applied the name to "old," "backward" Jews as a derogatory term. This name was at first resented by "old" Jews. And rightfully so...
Yet so pervasive was the use of the term that in 1886, when Hirsch established an alliance of the traditionalist congregations in Europe, he named it the "Freie Vereinigung für die Interessen des Orthodoxen Judentums" (Free Union for the Interests of Orthodox Judaism)!
Of all the movements on the contemporary Jewish scene, Orthodoxy is the least centralized and the most diverse. Whereas the Conservative and Reform movements in America each has a single seminary, Rabbinical association and synagogue union, the Orthodox world is fragmented into diverse institutional structures. Though they agree on basic issues of religious authority (e.g., the divine origins of the Bible and Oral Tradition) and the commitment to the study and observance of Jewish law, the Halakhah as interpreted in a relatively inflexible manner, Orthodox Jews diverge on a broad range of secondary issues, such as:
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the importance or legitimacy of mysticism
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policies towards Zionism and Jewish nationalism
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the eschatological status of the State of Israel
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educational philosophies
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leadership models
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cooperation with non-Orthodox Jews
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differing ethnic styles
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etc.
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