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Reflections on 75 Years of Israel in the wake of October 7th War

Zooming into Purim - 2024

Zooming into Tu B'Shvat - Fruits of Our Labors

Ofakim Resident Treated to Day of Rest & Relaxation at Neve Schechter

Modern Maccabees: Zooming into Hanukkah with Schechter during October 7 War

Zoom Update of Schechter's 2023 Emergency Campaign

Schechter's SHAVUOT Zoom

4th International Reading: Megillat Ha'Shoah

Zooming into Pesach with Schechter: 2023

Schechter's Tu Bishvat Zoom - February 2023

Schechter's Rosh Hashanah Zoom Seminar 2022 - Hebrew Year 5783

Shavua Tov @ Schechter: Parashat Vayishlach

The Steps on Our Journey: Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi Feigelson on Vayetzei

A Study in Contrasts: Dr. David Frankel on Abraham and Jacob

Parashat Chaye Sarah: Four Basic Jewish Values in one Torah Portion

Why do we read Kohelet in Sukkot?

Additions to the Amidah: A Mahzor Mystery

Turning Curses Into Blessings in the New Year

Repentance: Connecting to the Promise of the Future

Fake News and a Lesson from the Prophets

The Haftarot of Consolation: Encouraging Words from the Prophet Isaiah

What Does it Take to Build a Loving Relationship with God?

Parashat Va'etchanan: An Equal Standard of Judgement

Parashat Devarim: The Importance of Courage

Parashat Matot-Masei:
Should We Emulate God's Vengeance?

Parashat Pinchas: An Enduring Act
of Feminine Courage

Parashat Balak: A Timeless Lesson About Respecting Privacy

Parashat Chukat: Envisioning the Perfect Death

Parashat Korah: Seizing a Chance
To Make a Correction

Parashat Shelach Lecha: A Zionist Response to the Pessimism of the Spies

Parashat Naso: How Do You Serve God From a Place of Doubt?

Zooming into Shavuot: Customs from East to West (Part 2)

Zooming into Shavuot: The Music of Shavuot – the Famous to the Obscure

Zooming into Shavuot: Conversion, Intermarriage and the Book of Ruth

Zooming into Shavuot: The Mystery of Shavuot According to S. Y. Agnon

Parashat Bamidbar: The Desert is the Perfect Place to Become Holy

Parashat Behar-Bechukotai: The Meaning of Dwelling in the Land

Parashat Emor: Sanctifying God's Name Through How We Live

Parashat Aharei Mot-Kedoshim: Building a Metaphorical Sanctuary

Responding to Tragedy: Parashat Shemini and Holocaust Remembrance Day

Drama or Trauma: Who Are You When You Cross the Red Sea?

Zooming into Pesach: The Politics of Exodus

Zooming into Pesach: A Musical Journey Through the Haggadah

“From Sorrow into Joy, from Darkness into Great Light" – How We Give Thanks Following a Crisis

Parashat Vayakhel-Pikkudei: A Dwelling Place for God Paves a Path to Freedom

Parashat Ki Tissa: Challenging Times Call for Creative Leadership

Zooming into Purim: The turning point in the Book of Esther

Zooming into Purim: Vashti’s costume party in the Midrashim

Zooming into Purim: The Story of Purim in Art

Zooming into Purim: Just how drunk should a Jew get on Purim?

Parashat Terumah: Mining the Treasures Within Us

Parashat Mishpatim: Choosing to Belong to the Chosen People

Parashat Yitro: How were the 10 commandments written on the tablets?

Zooming into Tu BiShvat - Full program recording

Songs of the Heart: Reb Mimi Feigelson on Shabbat Shira

Tu Bishvat 2021: Three mysterious trees in the Bible

Tu Bishvat: Jewish family home education activities

Tu Bishvat 2021: Jewish sources for caring for our planet

Oasis of Art: Neve Schechter students create public art in Tel Aviv

Parashat Toldot with Dr. Tamar Kadari

Parashat Chayei Sarah with Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi Feigelson

Parashat Vayera with Dr. David Frankel

Parashat Lech Lecha with Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin

Parashat Noach with Dr. Ari Ackerman

Parashat Bereshit with Eitan Cooper: Truth, Good and Evil in 2020

Having a Meaningful Shemini Atzeret - Nava B. Meirsdorf

Getting in Touch with Our Inner Jonah before Yom Kippur

Zoom into Rosh Hashanah: The Sa'ir LaAzazel: Indeed a scapegoat?

Zoom into Rosh Hashanah: High Holiday Customs East to West

Zoom into Rosh Hashanah: Reconciliation and forgiveness

Zoom into Rosh Hashanah 2020: Rereading “Unetane Tokef”

Rosh Hashanah greeting from Rabbi David Golinkin

Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech with Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi Feigelson

Parashat Ki Tavo with Prof. Moshe Benovitz

Parashat Ki Teitzei with Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch

Parashat Shoftim and contemporary politics

Parashat Re'eh: Shmita and Social Justice

Circumcising our hearts in Parashat Eikev

Saying the Nahem prayer on Tisha B'av?

Parashat Devarim with Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi Feigelson

Parashat Matot-Masei with Rabbi Irina Gritskevskaya

Parashat Pinchas with Avi Novis-Deutsch

Who will be Standing with You at Sinai?

Parashat Beha'alotcha with Dr. David Frankel

Parashat Balak with Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi Feigelson

Parashat Chukat with Eitan Cooper

Parashat Korach with Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin

Parashat Shelach Lecha, with Dr. Gila Vachman

From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem with Dr. Peri Sinclair

A Virtual Tour of Odessa

New perspectives on the Book of Ruth with Benjy Segal

The Revelation at Sinai in Ancient and Modern Jewish Music

The Image of Ruth in Art with Shira Friedman

What Happened to Matan Torah? A study of Joshua ch. 24

Pre-Shavuot Virtual Tikkun - The Origins of the Tikkun on Shavuot

Who Will be Standing at your Sinai? with Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi Feigelson

The Customs of Shavuot: from East to West

Pre-Shavuot Virtual Tikkun - Rabbi David Wolpe King David: Public and Private Selves

Parashat Bamidbar, with Eitan Cooper

Jerusalem’s Holy Places 1948-1967 with Prof. Doron Bar: Between Independence Day and Jerusalem Day

Parashat Behar-Bechukotai with Rabbi David Golinkin

A Zionist Salon Exploring Peoplehood and the Power of Belonging

Celebrating Miracles Every Day: Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch on Parashat Emor

Heavenly Discipline: Dr. Shula Laderman on Parashat Shemini

How Should We Observe Yom Hashoah?

This Night Will be Different: Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin on Seder Ritual

Jewish Responses to the Corona Pandemic with Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin

Heeding the Prophet’s Call: Eitan Cooper on Shabbat Hagadol

Drawing Close: Rabbi Ilana Foss on Parashat Vayikra

Leaving Our Egypt: Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi Feigelson on Parashat Hachodesh

Dr. Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, Interview on Kan

Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin on Rejoicing on Purim

Visualizing Parashat Terumah with Dr. Shula Laderman

Holy Land Uncovered: An Interview with Dr. Peri Sinclair

Two Great Jewish Thinkers with Dr. Ari Ackerman

King David's Lives and Wives with Esther Lapian

Offering Counsel: Rabbi Irina Gritsevskaya on Parashat Yitro

Which Way to Go? Eitan Cooper on Parashat Beshalach

Torah Top Ten: Key Narratives and their Meaning for Judaism

Rabbi Akiva and Elisha ben Avuya: A Scholar at odds with a Heretic with Rabbi Dr. Vernon Kurtz

Interreligious Dialogue in Jerusalem with Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish

20th Century American-Jewish Short Stories with Dr. Shana Mauer

Parashat Bo: What Does the Torah Say About Asking Questions?

Parashat Va’era: Moses’ Magical Staff

Prof. Renée Levine Melammed on Miriam, the Sister of Moses

Holy Land Uncovered Interview with Rabbi Yoss Baruch

Parashat Vayechi: Jacob's Blessing and Your Children

Telling Your Story: Parashat Vayigash

Holy Land Uncovered: Interview With Dr. Paul Shrell-Fox

Plotting Leadership: Eitan Cooper on Parashat Miketz

Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch at Kan Reka, 17.12.19

Wily Women: Dr. Gila Vachman on Parashat Vayeishev

Reexamining Esau: Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch on Parashat Vayishlach

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Eitan Cooper on Parashat Vayetze

Finding Your Truth: Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi Feigelson On Parashat Toldot

Howard Mickelson Q.C. talks about "Law and Learn" mission

Hillel Smith talks about the Mural "A Sign Forever"

Parashat Vayera with Rabbi Infeld and Rabbi Golinkin

Parashat Vayera: Women, the Patriarchy and our Biblical Heritage

Taking a Stand: Rabbi Dr. David Frankel on Parashat Lech Lecha

Down Came the Rain: Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin on Noah and Gilgamesh

In the Image of God: Dr. Tamar Kadari on Genesis

Aleph or Bet: Dr. Shula Laderman with a Festive Torah Tale

“Do We Not Bleed?” the Jew in Literature with Dr. Shana Mauer

“The Emancipation’s impact upon Judaism" with Prof. Yossi Turner

“Delving into the Mysteries of the Zohar” with Dr. Jonatan Benarroch

“All about Jewish Artists” with Dr. Shula Laderman

Close Encounters of the 2nd Kind: with Esther Lapian

This is Your Wake-Up Call: Dr. David Frankel on Yom Kippur

Jewish Themes in Popular Israeli Music with Cantor Iris Weiner

Judaism: The Major Questions with Dr. Elliott Malamet

A New Year Greeting from Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin

On Ben Gurion, the Bible and an Unusual Press Conference

Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin on Ki Tavo

Everyday Obligations: Dr. Shula Laderman on Parashat Ki Teitzei

Rabbi Professor David Golinkin Takes the Passover Stage

Must We Listen to Our Leaders? Dr. David Frankel on Parashat Shoftim

Seeing and Being Seen: Parashat Re’eh

Traveling Tombstones: Professor Doron Bar on Herzl’s Reburial in Israel

20 Years of National Women's Study Days

Parashat Vaetchanan: The Rationale Behind The Commandments

Camp Ramah Yachad Ukraine Opening Rehearsal

Holy Land Uncovered: Tisha B'av and the Jewish Faith

The Schechter Institutes bridge between Israelis and Jewish culture

Dr. Shula Laderman on Holy Land

Finding Our Way Back on the Month of Av by Dr. Tamar Kadari

Parashat Pinchas: Understanding What leadership Really Means

Who is Left Outside? Three Rabbis Discuss the Other in Judaism

If Donkeys Could Talk: Dr. Shula Laderman on Parashat Balak

התרומה המיוחלת של העם היהודי בציון ובתפוצות למאבק על גורל האנושות

העם היהודי לאן? מבט פילוסופי־היסטורי: תשובות המרצים לשאלות המנחה

ההשלכות התיאולוגיות, הפילוסופיות והחינוכיות על הזהות יהודית במאה ה־21

פרופ’ אמנון רז־קרקוצקין | ציונות התפוצות וציונות ישראל

Diane Friedgut, Masorti Women's Study Day on i24 News

Was Anything Wrong with the Message of Korach?

Schechter overview 2018

Where Are the Women in Jewish Thought?

New Video from Schechter’s Graduate School

Kan Reka 5 6 19, Golinkin, Theater and Theology In a Stranger's Grave

Yos Baruch discusses Shavuot on I24News

Torah Lishma in Tel Aviv

MA student Dina Finkle shares her experience at Jerusalem course

Stick or Carrot? The Giving of the Torah with Dr. Tamar Kadari

Forging our Future: Dr. David Frankel on Parashat Bamidbar

Watershed Moments: Dr. Gila Vachman on Parashat Chukat

Everyone has Value: Reb Mimi Feigelson on Parashat Bechukotai

Paul Shrell-Fox on Brotherly Kinship

The Disqualified Kohen: Dr. Gila Vachman on Parashat Emor

The Challenge of "V’ahavta; And You Shall Love."

Revisit the story of Exodus with Rabbi Dr. Paul Shrell-Fox

What is the origin of the Seder and the Haggadah?

Parashat Metzora: Is Sin the Cause of Suffering?

Eitan Cooper Interview on i24 News

Gender Identity and Parashat Tazria

The Vital Religious Center in United States and Israel

Evolving Jewish Identities in Israel and the United States

Parashat Shemini and Aaron's Silence

Rabbi Professor David Golinkin's interview to Israel English News Kan

Being Jewish in Israel and the United States through the Lens of Literature

Jewish holidays Among the Crypto-Jews

Purim Thoughts with Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin

Female team members at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies

Influential Jewish women during the Middle Ages

Back to Reality with Parashat Vayikra

Dr. Einat Ramon: Parashat Pekudei on the Purpose of Materialism

Reb Mimi Feigelson: Parashat Vayakhel Another Donation?

Halleli in i24NEWS - Learning about Jewish identity in Israel & in the U.S

Parashat Vayakhel: Is All Gold Good?

Reb Mimi Feigelson: Seize The Moment in Parashat Tetzaveh

Parashat Terumah with Avi Novis-Deutsch

The Schechter Institutes Year 2018

“Rabbis’ Lives, Rabbis’ Wives”: Talmudic Tales of Love and Learning

Parashat Mishpatim: Faith and Action in Jewish Tradition

Tu Bishvat Exhibit in Neve Schechter

"Judaism on War and Peace" with Dr. Elliott Malamet

"Maimonides: A Revolutionary Philosopher" with Dr. Ari Ackerman

"Jewish Life and Lore during the Second Temple Period"

Emma Lazarus to Nicole Krauss: American Jewish Women's Writing

"Cinema and Jewish Culture: Beyond Woody Allen"

"All about Jewish Art" with Dr. Shula Laderman

"Biblical and Jewish Themes in Popular Israeli Music"

"Does God Really Care?" with Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi Feigelson

Parashat Yitro: gratitude and a cross-sensual experience at Sinai

Parashat Beshalach: Can we look positively on Amalek?

Parashat Bo: Justice or Mercy?

Dr. Einat Ramon at I24's HOLY LAND UNCOVERED

Parashat Shemot Rabbi Professor David Golinkin

Parashat Vayigash: Where is God in the story of Joseph?

Rabbi David Golinkin: This Hanukkah, Celebrate Unity

Rabbi Raanan Mallek on Israel English News, 28.11.18

Parashat Vayishlach: What can we learn from Esau and Jacob?

Dr. David Frankel Parashat Vaera

Parashat Toldot: Earning the Name

Parashat Vayera Rabbi David Golinkin

HOLY LAND UNCOVERED | Immigration in the Holy Land

Rabbi Dr. Reb Mimi Feigelson, Free Will in Parashat Lech Lecha

What Does “Be Fruitful and Multiply” Mean?

The meaning of Yom Kippur, Paul Shrell-Fox on I24News

Judaism and Christianity Facing the Challenge of Secularism

5 reasons for sitting in the Sukkah by David Golinkin

Reb Mimi Feigelson on Yom Kippur as a Moment of Unity

A taste of the symbolic foods on Rosh Hashanah

Learn about the Jewish Prayer Modes with Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch

What happens on the streets of Jerusalem during Selichot?

Selihot Already? Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin on Penitential Prayers

How did Mount Herzl Get its Name? On Herzl's Final Resting Place

I24News Holyland Uncovered 9 BAV Panel with Irina Gritsevskaya

Does Love Keep Us From Being Alone? On Parshat Eikev

Should Jews Return to Israel? Dr. Einat Ramon on Tisha B'Av

Orthodox, Masorti, Reform Rabbis Discuss Issues as Women Rabbis

Halakhic Controversies Related to Women in Israel: 1918-2018

Professor Alice Shalvi: Women's Wisdom has Built a Home in Jerusalem

Rabbi Ariella Graetz Bar-Tuv: Changing the Discourse via Torah study

Destruction and Redemption: Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch on Tisha B'Av

Zealous or Zealot? Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin on Parshat Pinchas

Right from Wrong? On the Responsibilities of Leadership

Professor Doron Bar on the Creation of Yad Vashem

Superwoman: A 17th-Century Woman's Kabbalistic Powers

Dr. Ari Ackerman on How he Became a Scholar of Jewish Thought

Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin on Parshat Beha'alotcha

Just How Jewish Should Israel Be? The Separation of State and Religion

Jewish Education and Bridging the Gap Between Israel and North America

Conversion, The Kotel and Other Halakhic Controversies

The Center as a Unifying Force Between Israel and the Diaspora

Celebrating Jerusalem! Doron Bar on the City's Changing Population

Zionism and the Jubilee Year: Eitan Cooper on Parashat Behar

Renee Levine Melammed on a 17th-Century Woman Rosh Yeshiva

Rabbi Reb Dr. Mimi Feigelson on Hasidism

How Do We Mark a Miracle? Rabbi David Golinkin on Israel's 70th Birthday

How Do We Make Sense of the Insensible? Parshat Tazria-Metzora

How Do We Respond to tragedy? Dr. David Frankel on Parshat Shemini

Professor Dr. Ari Ackerman on Heschel's Architecture of Time

Is There More Than One Way to be a Zionist? A Zionist Dilemma

Rabbi Reb Dr. Mimi Feigelson on Parashat Vayikra

Where do you Encounter God? On Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei

Hidden or Revealed: Dr. Ari Ackerman on Purim Miracles

He Said, She Said: A Maimonidean Dispute

God is in the Details: Dr. Paul Mandel on Parshat Terumah

Are All Women Leaders Feminists?

God of History or God of Wisdom? Dr. Ari Ackerman on Parshat Yitro

Professor Doron Bar on Tu Bishvat

Professor Renée Levine Melammed and the Mysterious Midwife

Parashat Vae'ra: My God is Bigger than Yours

Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch on Parashat Shemot

Rabbi Reb Dr. Mimi Feigelson on Parshat Vayechi

Are We Afraid of the Dark? Illuminating Hanukkah Origins

Why Don’t We Read a Scroll on Hanukkah? Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin

Dr. Tamar Kadari on Parashat Vayeshev

Professor Doron Bar on Parashat Vayishlach

Dr. Shula Laderman on Parashat Vayetze

Rabbi Dr. Paul Shrell-Fox on Parashat Toldot

Professor Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern on Parashat Chayei Sarah

Eitan Cooper on Parashat Vayera

Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch on Parashat Noach

Dr. Paul Mandel on Parashat Lech Lecha

Rabbi Dr. David Frankel on Simchat Torah

Happy Sukkot from The Schechter Institutes

Dr. Einat Ramon speaks about Yom Kippur/The Day of Atonement

Happy New Year from The Schechter Institutes

Rabbi Hayim Herring, Ph.D.: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch, Dean of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary

Alice Shalvi - 18th Women's study day, June 2017

David Golinkin - 18th Women's study day, June 2017

Shira Taylor Gura

Dr. Ari Ackerman on Revelation

Webinar - Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch

Hair is Not Just Hair: Darwinian Formulations and Jewish Expressions / Rick Goldberg

The Immunology of Religion / Prof. Thomas B. Ellis

Negative Altruism, Suicide Bombings and Evolutionary Advantages / Rabbi Naomi Dar, PhD.

Jewish Orthodox Families and prolonged singlehood / Ari Engelberg, PhD.

Jewish Identity in Modern Day Cuba / Jay Sweifach PhD.

Intended Evolution / Joel Rutman, MD.

Natural Selection and Religious Traditions / Prof. Craig Palmer

Evolution morality and religion / Rabbi Paul Shrell-Fox, PhD

Technology, Religion and Evolution: Some observations / Herbert Fox, PhD.

Yahrzeit Candles, a Master Plan for Babi Yar, Kiev, Ukraine / Prof. Miriam Gusevich

Efraim Halevy, “The Israel-United States-Russia triangle–equilateral? Isosceles? Or what?”

Justice Dalia Dorner, “The Israeli Democracy"

Rabbi Jonathan Infeld's Dvar Torah at the opening of “Law and Justice” Seminar

The Color of Judaism

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