spiritual leaders

Rabbi Brander speaks

Remarks by Rabbi Brander at the WIHL Graduation Ceremony

The following remarks were delivered in Hebrew by Ohr Torah Stone President and Rosh HaYeshiva, Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander, at the graduation ceremony of Rabbanit Dr. Hannah Hashkes, Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis, and Rabbanit Chamutal Shoval from the Susi Bradfield

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Rabbinical Seminary students

Preparing Jewish Rabbinical Leadership for the Modern World

Preparing Jewish Rabbinical Leadership for the Modern World “Ohr Torah Stone’s rabbinic training is about so much more than learning the halakha,” enthused Aviel Javesky, a student in Ohr Torah Stone’s Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Rabbinical Seminary. “I also learned

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WIHL Graduates New Spiritual Leadership

Click here for photos Rabbanit Amira Raanan (pictured, right) and Rabbanit Navit Zaddik were certified as Manhigot Ruchaniyot and Morot Hora’ah on Wednesday, May 16, by the Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halakhic Leadership (WIHL), an advanced 5-year program for female scholars at

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Newest WIHL Graduates

Mazal tov to the two newest graduates of the Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halakhic Leadership (WIHL) at Midreshet Lindenbaum, Rabbanit Dr. Jennie Rosenfeld and Rabbanit Shira Zimmerman. Both Zimmerman (left) and Rosenfeld – whose internship of the past two

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New Spiritual Leaders

Scroll down for photos, courtesy of Nurit Jacobs-Yinon/Aluma Films New Spiritual Leaders After five years of intense study, two women were certified as spiritual leaders and morot hora’ah (arbiters of Jewish law) at a ceremony which took place on 20

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