chanukah

OTS Lighting the Way – 8th Night of Chanukah

Ohr Torah Stone is lighting the way! Keeping the flame burning … all year long! The eighth Chanukah candle celebrates OTS’s newest initiative: HaMidrasha HaYisraelit – the Israeli Seminary – a new beit midrash for post-high school Israeli women from

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OTS Lighting the Way – 7th Night of Chanukah

Ohr Torah Stone is lighting the way! Together for candle lighting – together in building community! The seventh night has arrived, soon all of the candles will burn together brightly as one strong light – the perfect symbol for Ohr

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OTS Lighting the Way – 6th Night of Chanukah

Ohr Torah Stone is lighting the way! Adding light… our way. The sixth night has arrived, and tonight we celebrate the students, staff and madrichim of the Elaine and Norm Brodsky Darkaynu Program – the only program enabling Orthodox youth

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OTS Lighting the Way – 5th Night of Chanukah

Ohr Torah Stone is lighting the way! How well do you know Ohr Torah Stone’s hesder yeshivot and rabbinical seminary programs? On this fifth night of Chanukah we invite you to another trivial quiz, as we pay tribute to the

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OTS Lighting the Way – 3rd Night of Chanukah

Ohr Torah Stone is lighting the way! The Lord of the Rings: not just a movie. 21 years ago, on December 19. 2001, the first movie in the famed ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy was released. In Tolkien’s classic story,

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OTS Lighting the Way – 2st Night of Chanukah

Ohr Torah Stone is lighting the way!   Did you know that Midreshet Lindenbaum’s Hebrew nickname is “Mother of all Seminaries” because it was the first and remains the largest framework for women’s Torah study in Israel? Did you know

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OTS Lighting the Way – 1st Night of Chanukah

Ohr Torah Stone is lighting the way! On this first night of Chanukah, we’ll start with some trivia questions about our six high schools. Let’s see how well you know us!  1. What was the very first institution that OTS

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Reflections of Rav Soloveitchik on Chanukah

Reflections of Rav Soloveitchik on Chanukah by Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander  When the Rambam wrote the Mishneh Torah, he stated that his purpose was: …so that the entire Oral Law might become known to all without difficulty… I have called

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The Light That Grows Each Night

The Light That Grows Each Night Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander is President and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Ohr Torah Stone network There is a famous dispute between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai regarding how we should light the Chanukah lights.

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‘And the pit was empty, having no water in it:’

‘And the pit was empty, having no water in it:’ The Deeper Message Behind the Hasmonean Revolt Rabbi Dr. Ari Silbermann, a former shaliach in Manchester, England, is the Director of Education and Leadership Development of the Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Institutes Ask

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A Thousand Words – December 6, 2021

When you live in Lod – the mixed city that was the very epicenter of violent riots by Israeli Arabs last May – lighting Chanukah candles takes on additional meaning and excitement.  Because when you live in Lod, as do

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