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Photo of the Week: June 4, 2026 This year, Midreshet Darkaynu produced Fiddler on the Roof as their annual production, and it was a true celebration of friendship, inclusion, and community. The Elaine and Norm Brodsky Darkaynu Program offers young men and women with special needs a unique year in Israel. The women’s program, based […]

Haftarat Parshat Shelach: When Status Obscures Mission Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander is President and Rosh HaYeshiva of Ohr Torah Stone The obvious link between Parshat Shelach, in which Moshe sends men to scout out the Land, and its haftarah, the story from the book of Yehoshua (ch. 2) of the spies sent to Jericho, is […]

Parshat Shelach: From “Do Not Go Up” to “The Daughters of Tzelophechad Speak Rightly” Moriah Dayan Moriah Dayan is a Rabbinical Court Advocate and Attorney at Yad La’isha: The Monica Dennis Goldberg Legal Aid Center for Agunot At the conclusion of the episode of the spies there appears a brief narrative commonly known as the […]

The article below is from Rabbi Riskin’s book Bemidbar: Trials & Tribulations in Times of Transition, part of his Torah Lights series of commentaries on the weekly parsha, published by Maggid and available for purchase here. Parshat Shelach: The Downfall of the Scouts May Have Been a Fallout of Jewish Democracy Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin is […]

Photo of the Week: May 28, 2026 Ohr Torah Stone proudly congratulates (left to right) Rabbanit Shanee Hadad, Rabbanit Elisheva Brauner, and Rabbanit Shira Liberman on graduating from our Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halakhic Leadership (WIHL). As the struggle for professional and employment recognition of women’s halakhic scholarship reaches its peak with the openin...