Yom Ha'atzmaut by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

  The Straus Rabbinical Seminary is proud to congratulate David Falk Kollel member Betsalel Philip Edwards on the recent publication of his first book: "Living Waters - The Mei HaShiloach: A Commentary on the Torah by Rabbi Mordechai Yosef of Isbitza", published by Jason Aronson Press. Click here for a review of the book, for a bio of Betsalel, or for an interview with Betsalel..
  On Taanit Esther, women gathered outside Ma'asiyahu Prison in support of agunot, women who are literally chained to a dead or abusive husband by a husband who is refusing to release them. Naomi Ragen writes about the rally in her Jerusalem Post Column "From a Distance".
  Read what Barbara Sofer writes about Yad L'isha -- the Max Morrison Legal Aid Center and Hotline -- in her bi-weekly Jerusalem Post column
  Read the featured article on our own Midreshet Lindenbaum, written by Hadassah Lewis, from The Jerusalem Post's "In Jerusalem" weekend magazine.
  The Max Morrison Legal Aid Center and Hotline recently set an important Legal Precedent, in effect opening the door for agunot to sue their husbands for damages in an Israeli civil court. Read about the ruling and its ramifications
  A story with a happy ending? Read about what happened to a Legal Aid Center and Hotline Advocate a few weeks ago, including translation of the Maariv newspaper article.
 Insights into Pesach by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

Parshiot Acharei-Mot Kedoshim
"You shall be holy" (Leviticus 19:2)
What does it mean, to be holy?
First let us ask, what does it mean to be a Jew? Rav Yehezkel Abramsky, great Sage and Judge of London and Jerusalem, maintains that it means that you belong to a special nation, that you belong to a special religion, and that you belong to a sacred community. Each of these three unique aspects of our ethnicity is expressed in a prayer recited each morning after we fall prostrate before our G-d. (Tahanun)

Rabbi Chaim Brovender's Parshat Hashavua can be found on the Yeshivat Hamivtar-Orot Lev website.

Una religión para la vida

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