Living in the Land

by | Jan 4, 2021

Rabbi Ilan Goldman Former Rav-Shaliach, Bnei Akiva England Currently Executive Director, Project Aseret Click Here for the PDF version One winter when I flew home from JFK to Ben Gurion Airport, there was a Kohen stranded at JFK because every El-Al flight he wanted to...

The Heart of the Lion

by | Jan 9, 2020

The final words of Yaakov Avinu to his children begin quite terribly. The first three brothers are treated not to blessings, but to harsh criticism and even punishment. Reuven is described as impulsive. Shimon and Levi are portrayed as angry and willful. Only with the...

Crown Thy Good With Brotherhood 5779

by | Dec 23, 2018

Crown Thy Good With Brotherhood By Dr. Yocheved Engelberg Cohen Former Shlicha, Syracuse (5760-1) and Princeton (5764-5) Currently working as a Hebrew-to-English translator, the current project is translating R. Eliezer Melamed’s Peninei Halakha series....

The Eternal Life in This World The Days Don’t Pass

by | Jan 2, 2018

Rav Yakov Nagen Ram at Otniel Hesder Yeshiva  . The Eternal Life in This World The Days Don’t Pass Each encounter with death emboldens the notion that death is infinite and eternal, leaving man to contemplate the temporal and finite nature of life. These feelings...

To Be A Jew – 5777

by | Jan 10, 2017

Rav Avraham Norin Ram at the Machon Meir Conversion Center   To be a Jew Who am I?  Some call me Avraham – that's my first name. Others call me a settler, or a mitnachel, depending on their politics. My students call me Rav...