“I am optimistic about our country’s future” – Tonight, We Don’t Learn Torah 2023 Israel Prize recipient Miriam Peretz: “We do not have the privilege of despair. We have an obligation to the generations that came before us and established
Join Rabbi Jacob J Schacter on Tisha B’Av at Midreshet Lindenbaum to explore lessons from the Kinot for our times
When destruction is necessary for rebuilding – opinion The Temple was destroyed by the decision of God, who could no longer bear what was going on under its roof and thus made the decision to demolish it. Pnina Omer | August
“Tonight, We Don’t Learn Torah” panels are taking place in 18 locations throughout Israel, including this one, in English, in Raanana. This year’s national theme is: “Areivim ze bazeh – responsible for one another!?”
Join Rabbi Jacob J Schacter on Tisha B’Av at Midreshet Lindenbaum to explore lessons from the Kinot for our times
Tonight, We Don’t Learn Torah “On Tisha B’Av we are compelled to rise above any division and debate and to remember that we have a common purpose” In recent years, the “Tonight, We Don’t Learn Torah” Tisha B’Av programs
Tisha Be’av: Finding ourselves to find redemption – opinion The service on Tisha Be’av focuses on golah, exile, and its movement towards geulah, redemption. The difference between these two Hebrew words is one letter, aleph, for ani – me. By
“Fighting for Peace” Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s commentary on Shabbat Chazon, Tisha B’Av (Parshat Devarim)
“For these things, I do weep – על אלה אני בוכיה“ Three young souls snatched from the world too soon are commemorated through a special day of learning at Midreshet Lindenbaum’s Tilles Campus Midreshet Lindenbaum alumna Tzurit Yaron was killed
Between “Eicha” and “Ayeka” by Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander The first and central kinah said on Tisha b’Av is Megillat Eicha. The Gemara (Baba Batra 14a) refers to Megillat Eicha as the book of Lamentations, a Biblical book of which
Limitless Love to counter Baseless Hatred: Tisha B’Av 2017 What relevance can a fast marking the destruction of the Temple 2000 years ago possibly have for modern secular Israelis? How can one really be expected to mourn over something one
OTS-trained rabbis and educators currently serving communities in the Diaspora have temporarily traded in their ‘shlichlut‘ to the world for emergency ‘shlichut’ in Israel, returning home to join their comrades in Gaza. It is common for graduates of OTS’s Beren-Amiel
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