A Conversation with Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum is the founding director of the Ohr Torah Stone network’s Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Training and Placement Institutes, which held its annual conference in Miami this week for its regional shlichim
Is Judaism Pluralistic? And what is the difference between disagreements and war? Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum is the director of the Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Institutes for Educational and Rabbinical Emissaries Throughout history, Judaism has been characterized by machloket – halachic disputes
Shlichut as a Way of Life: Serving the Jewish People Through Emissary Work Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum is the founding director of OTS’s Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Programs For me, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are days of contemplation, a
High Holidays Especially Important to Diaspora Jewry This Year For many Diaspora Jews Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur play a defining role in their Jewish identity. This year, Covid-19 restrictions endanger this connecting thread. Testimonies from shlichim across the globe.
Amid COVID-19, OTS releases guide on how to safely observe High Holy Days The High Holy Days, which refer to the holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, are some of the most important in the Jewish calendar, with the
The High Holidays with Covid-19 The millions of worshippers expected at High Holiday prayers this year will be subject to Covid-19 restrictions. A halachic compilation was recently published to assist in dealing with them. By Zvika Klein | August 9,
Instead of traveling abroad, I am traveling in the realms of the spirit The Corona era has forced me to take a break from my intensive journeys around the Jewish world, but it turns out that they can be continued
Ladino After Auschwitz by Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum, Director of OTS’s Straus-Amiel and Beren-Amiel Emissary Training Programs The “bad guys” in the story of the Salonika community are not the Greeks, but rather the Germans. In the city that absorbed Spanish evacuees and
פורים הנצחי הרב אליהו בירנבוים ראש מכון ברן-עמיאל ומכון שטראוס-עמיאל לכל חג יש משמעות מיוחדת, אבל לחג הפורים יש משמעות נצחית. פורים הוא לא רק חג היסטורי, אלא חג משמעותי ורלוונטי לכל אחד מאתנו כיום, המדרש אומר “שכל המועדים
מדוע באים ביום כיפור לבית הכנסת? הרב אליהו בירנבוים ראש מכון ברן-עמיאל ומכון שטראוס-עמיאל לפני מספר שנים, סיפר לי ידידי הרב פנחס גולדשמיט רבה הראשי של מוסקבה סיפור נפלא על הקשר בין יהודים ליום הכיפורים וכך סיפר: “בשנה הראשונה שהגעתי
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