בשם ה’ אל עולם
שליחת ציבור לאמירת סליחות וקריאת שלוש עשרה מידות
ראש ישיבתנו, הרה”ג ר’ דוב לינזר שליט”א, נשאל לאחרונה אם מותר לנשים לשמש כשליחות ציבור לאמירת סליחות ושלוש עשרה מידות, ובתשובה מפורטת ביאר דעתו לאיסור. אבל אנכי לא כן עמדי.… Read the rest
London’s first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, will be synagogue hopping in Chicago this weekend at our musmach Rav David Wolkenfeld’s shul, and Rav Asher Lopatin’s former shul.… Read the rest
Rabbi Avram Mlotek ’15 beautifully discusses his recent encounter with our justice system and how similar we actually are to one another in the Jewish Week.… Read the rest
Rabbi Daniel Goodman’16 discusses modern films, Victorian literature, and Jewish sages illustrate a religiously grounded, morally mature approach to the classic internal conflict identified by great thinkers from Plato to Freud.… Read the rest
There’s a campus where Israel is celebrated and Jews thrive. It’s a place where Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns have been defeated 15 times since 2002 and where 80 percent of the most recent student body presidents have been committed Jews. … Read the rest
Read Rabbi Jon Leener ’16 fantastic article in eJewish Philanthropy about how he wrestles “with the tension of quality and quantity as a young rabbi…”
The International Rabbinic Fellowship together with the whole house of Israel, mourns the passing of Rabbi Shear Yashuv Hacohen zt”l, Chief Rabbi of Haifa, and a leading rabbinic scholar and voice of religious Zionism. A scion to a long line of rabbis and an illustrious family, as a son to the Nazir, R.… Read the rest
The U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Andrew H. Schapiro, celebrated his son’s bar mitzvah in the same synagogue that his ancestors attended before the Holocaust with Rabbi Asher Lopatin. Read about the celebration.… Read the rest
Rabbi Asher Lopatin is featured on the Wexner Foundations blog where they asked several from within their network to comment on whether they were observing Tisha b’Av and, if so, how and why. Read their thoughts and insights.… Read the rest
Rachmiel Gurwitz ’17 is featured in the Times of Israel Article “Rabbinical Students Learn to Make Social Justice a Reality” for his work with T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and the Damayan Migrants Association.