By Sharona Kaplan I have been living on a college campus for over half of my life. I attended Stern College as an undergraduate and then lived at Yeshiva University as I earned my MSW and my husband studied for semichah. My most recent campus stint has been the longest, as I am completing
By Batya Rosner It is the question that’s long been asked by Jewish educators and outreach workers. What happens “after”? When the student leaves the classroom, when the adolescent moves on into young adulthood and starts charting a path through the wider world − what remains of the lessons and activities encouraged by their mentors? Once
Alyssa Wolff IFS Alumnus One thing most baalot teshuvah agree upon is that they never wanted to be Orthodox, and Alyssa (Wolff) Goldwater was no exception. “I know it sounds terrible, but I thought all Orthodox people were kind of strange,” she admits. “The image of Orthodox Jews – especially Orthodox women – is pretty
Imagine, if you will, that shortly after your birth you were chosen to get an extra heart. You are perfectly healthy but technology made it such that certain people could get an extra heart, another source of extra blood flow, energy and emotion. You can get used to this. In times of stress, sorrow, and
What’s the connection between Aharon HaKohen and Rabbi Akiva? Rabbi Jesse Horn from Yeshivat HaKotel looks at this week’s parsha and teaches us an important lesson about combating fear, embracing destiny, and becoming a real winner.
Rabbi Yehuda Maryles, director of Las Vegas NCSY, discusses the concept of Pharaoh’s free will and HaShem ‘hardening his heart’ in this week’s parsha – and what it would be like to have a Superbowl party in Ancient Egypt.
Hard work pays off. In this week’s parsha, a coda to that Jacob’s life, he makes his final request to his family in Egypt that he be buried with his fathers, the other two patriarchs. As Devora Weinstock, former New Haven Chapter president and current director of programs for New England NCSY, explains, although the
Join fellow alumni, other Jewish college students and young professionals for our 10-day trip during May-June to Germany and meet with the contemporary Jewish community, visit the sites of German-Jewish history, and talk with political and business opinion-makers.
In the last few chapters of Genesis there is a very striking recurrence of the dream as a tool to predict the future. In few other places in Biblical literature is there equal recognition of the importance of dreams, and in those few stories in which dreams are recounted, there is never tantamount emphasis on