Month: May 2021

Noah Marlowe received his BA in Psychology and is pursuing an MS in Jewish Education, certificate in Mental Health Counseling, MSW, and semikha at Yeshiva University. In addition to his academic work, Noah has participated in the 92 Street Y's Jewish Innovation Fellowship, AIPAC Leffell Rabbinic Fellowship, and Fuchs-Mizrachi Beit Midrash Fellowship. This summer Noah will be a Beren Fellow at the Tikvah Fund researching and crafting a theologically-compelling and psychologically-informed curriculum for sexual education. His writing has appeared in Tradition Online and The Lehrhaus.
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As I walk into minyan, I put down my still-steaming coffee, roll up my sleeve, and start wrapping my tefillin.*Whack* — before tightening my tefillin, I feel the force of a newly-married friend’s tallis (prayer shawl often reserved for married men) strike me in the head. Still half asleep, I look up and see a Read More …

Originally from London, Rav Johnny Solomon is a Jewish educator and writer with a BSc (Hons) in Math & Religious Studies, an MA in Jewish Education, and semicha from the Montefiore Kollel. Beyond this, Rav Johnny has participated in the Lookstein Fellowships for Senior Jewish Educators, the Shalom Hartman Tichon Programme for Senior Jewish Educators, the Ashdown Fellowships for Senior Jewish Educators, and the Yaakov Herzog Reshut Rabim Beit Midrash. While in London, Rav Johnny held numerous senior positions including Head of Judaic Studies at Immanuel College (London) and Head of Judaic Studies at Hasmonean Girls’ School (London). In 2012 Rav Johnny made aliya with his wife Donna and their 5 daughters, and he divides his time between teaching at Midreshet Lindenbaum & Matan, working as a Jewish education consultant, editing Jewish books for Mosaica Press, and providing online spiritual coaching, halachic consultations and one-to-one learning to men and women around the world. Beyond this, Rav Johnny writes a popular daily Daf Yomi thought, he is a contributor to the RZWeekly podcast, he is a posek to his local shul, and he is a board member of Chochmat Nashim. To find out more, see http://rabbijohnnysolomon.com/
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Most students don’t come to Yeshiva and Seminary in Israel to study. Instead, they come to find themselves or to change themselves. The problem, however, is that while most Yeshiva and Seminary students in this period of emerging adulthood presume that their very presence in Yeshiva or Seminary will stir them into becoming someone who Read More …

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For several years after my daughter was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, she regularly told me she wanted to die. Or, more accurately put, she wanted to kill herself. At first, the fear of dying in pain kept her in check, and then she fixated on those failed suicides whose lives as quadriplegics or hooked Read More …

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If you want to understand my pain Look at your children and imagine them being overwhelmed by an illness that has no cure. Imagine being powerless to stop it.  Imagine watching them transform before your eyes from a carefree and confident child to one overcome with sickness and despair.  Imagine having your dreams of watching Read More …