Nachum Segal welcomed Elana Goldscheider, founding director of Ohr Torah Stone’s Elaine and Norm Brodsky Darkaynu Programs for young adults with special needs. “Everyone should have a chance to be able to come to Israel….all of a sudden our students feel on an equal level with everyone else. There’s this feeling of ‘we belong.’” Elana …
Ohr Torah Stone congratulates our Founder, Chancellor Emeritus and Rosh HaYeshiva Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, on being awarded the Samuel Rothberg Prize for Jewish Education by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The beauty of a revolution is that what is inconceivable one day suddenly becomes commonplace. Rabbi Riskin has fomented a revolution in Judaism by redefining …
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OTS Amiel BaKehila Program marks 50th mission to the Diaspora OTS Amiel BaKehila Program marks end of pilot year with 50th mission to the Diaspora; 150% expansion planned for coming year OTS Amiel BaKehila, a program of Ohr Torah Stone, is an exciting initiative run under the auspices of Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs aimed at …
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How do you know that you’ve educated your students successfully? Students in OTS’s Neveh Shmuel Yeshiva High School, in memory of Samuel Pinchas Ehrman took the initiative of changing places with their kitchen and maintenance staff for the day. They surprised the workers with a day off – including a tour and lunch at the …
“ויחלם והנה סלם מוצב ארצה וראשו מגיע השמימה…” (בראשית כ”ח:י”ב) “And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven…” (Gen 28:12) Mazal tov to Ohr Torah Stone’s visionary dreamer, Founder, Chancellor Emeritus and Rosh HaYeshiva Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin, who was awarded the Nefesh B’Nefesh …
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Poland’s Szalom TV made this delightful, informative clip highlighting the very first OTS Amiel BaKehila delegation ever to visit Warsaw, Wroclaw and Lodz. Led by Rabbi Boaz Pash, Rosh Yeshiva of Ohr Torah Stone’s Torat Yosef kollel and former Straus-Amiel emissary, the delegation also included photographer and public relations expert Laura Ben David, and musician Mishael Dickman. …
“I am a Rabbi in this community, and I am very aware of the importance of your coming here. Words are important and are good, but your music has opened something in our hearts that is beyond what we have here in this community.” So said Rabbi David Szychowski, the Rabbi of Lodz to Mishael …
