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
Parents’ Night – A Reassuring Peek Into Life on Shlichut “And thank you to my parents for bringing me this far…” is the ending of many a bar and bat mitzva speech. The Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emmisary Training Institutes took
This week, approximately 70 shlichim from OTS’s Straus-Amiel and Beren-Amiel Emissary Training Institute currently serving as rabbis and educators in communities across Europe came together in Lausanne, Switzerland for a three-day regional conference. The conference kicked off with Straus-Amiel and
Ohr Torah Stone is lighting the way! Lighting up the World! We are dedicating the fourth Chanukah candle to a group of men and women who are disseminating the light of the Torah to all four corners of the world:
First-Ever Course for Kosher Slaughterers in Ethiopia Graduates 12 David Israel | November 29, 2022 This week in Ethiopia, twelve men underwent a training course to become halakhically qualified as ritual slaughterers. The course took place in the city of
Ohr Torah Stone salutes 46 graduates of our emissary training programs who have embarked upon new rabbinical and educational placements around the world
San Diego; the second largest city in California. A city with incredible sea and desert views, Mexican influences and amazing weather. This week, the city got a boost which will make it an even better place to live: Netzach and
Jewish education is key to the survival of the Jewish people New class of Ohr Torah Stone emissaries graduates in ceremony attended by Diaspora Minister, heads off to communities around the world. A new class of rabbinical and educational emissaries
Let’s say you are on shlichut in a university campus and you notice that one student’s behavior has changed drastically and that he has also not been eating recently. After a serious conversation with him, you both arrive at the
The DNA of a Rabbinical Emissary Rabbi Nir and Andy Koren, June 8, 2022 Nations, just like individuals, possess a certain genetic makeup that defines their behavior, growth, and progress. For the nation of Israel (i.e., the Jewish people), and
About half a year ago, the Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Institute hung a huge corkboard map of the world on one of the walls of their office, exhibiting all of the Jewish communities across the globe where their 266 educational
Refugees Remember the Fallen A special Yom Hazikaron ceremony was held in the Jewish community of the city of Lodz, Poland, in memory of Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror. Nitzan Kedar, May 4, 2022 As Israel marks Remembrance
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