Why Did God Create Us? Rabbanit Sally Mayer is the Rosh Midrasha of Midreshet Lindenbaum‘s Maria and Joel Finkle Overseas Program Why did God create us? From time to time, this question arises, especially around the the Yamim Nora’im (The
Remembrance and the Journey from Judgment to Mercy Rabbi Ohad Teharlev is the director of Israeli Programs at Midreshet Lindenbaum There are two Memorial Days in the Jewish-Israeli calendar: Rosh Hashanah, and Remembrance Day for fallen IDF soldiers and victims
The power of response in the tshuva process The day on which the ten-day process of repentance culminates, Yom Kippur, is not a day of mourning. By Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander, September 2, 2021 The well-known thinker, neurologist, psychiatrist and
FEATURED POST Rosh Hashanah: Closing a circuit of life and love The day’s events threw a Lubavitcher Hasid, a Bedouin soldier, and me together so we could each do some good, and I was sure our encounters weren’t by chance
The Importance of Melody in the Journey of Teshuva during the High Holidays Pnina Omer is the director of OTS’s Yad La’isha: The Monica Dennis Goldberg Legal Aid Center & Hotline The journey of teshuva – repenting and finding forgiveness
Shmita and Rosh Hashana: A Time of Renewal Rabbanit Dr. Hannah Hashkes is the Director of OTS’s International Halakha Scholars Program It is not always easy to get into a festive mind frame in the hustle and bustle of modern
Hi God, it’s me – Tova Tova Levine is Co-Director of Education for HAHET (Hale Adult Hebrew Education Trust) in the UK, and a Beren-Amiel emissary alongside her husband, Rabbi Evan Levine In April of this year, I was eight months
The Ten Days of Atonement: Connecting Heaven and Earth Rabbi Shay Nave is the director of OTS’s Yachad Program for Jewish Identity Jewish time is a complicated business. The Jewish calendar is a double calendar of sorts. On the one
Nachum Segal welcomed Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander, President and Rosh HaYeshiva of Ohr Torah Stone, back to JM in the AM ahead of Rosh Hashana 5782 to talk about Rav Soloveitchik, OTS’ condensed halakhic machzor for Covid, the start of
An Opportunity to Begin Anew Rabbanit Devorah Evron is the director of OTS’s Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halakhic Leadership (WIHL) The commandment regarding Rosh Hashanah appears several times in the Torah, yet only one account in the Tanakh (in
The Haunting Sound of the Shofar Rabbi Ari and Laura Silbermann are shlichim from OTS’s Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Institute, currently serving as Rabbi and Rabbanit of Mizrachi UK in Manchester, England The piercing sound of the shofar is our way of enthroning
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