The End Of Choref Zman And A Spring Of Hope
Choref zman ended with Rosh Chodesh Nissan, and Pesach break has begun. Although choref zman has been a personally transformative period, I would be dishonest if I did not...
Shabbat In Tzfat
Each year on Parashat Lech Lecha, which coincides with the second Shabbat of Choref Zman, Yeshivat Hakotel has a shabbaton in Tzfat. Unfortunately, due to the war, and Hezbollah’s...
The Yeshivat Hakotel Alumni Mission To The Gaza Border
By Reuben M. Gampel
As college’s winter break approached, I arranged for a three-week stay at Yeshivat Hakotel, now as an alumnus. I recognized that the Israel of January 2024...
A Day Of Chizuk
Like most gap-year talmidim, I am regularly asked by family and friends how I am holding up during the war. I am physically safe in the Old City of...
A New Reality
Hi, it’s been a while. Like many of you, my world has shifted since my last article. On October 7 I was standing in the sukkah on a balcony...
The Land Of Opt
On page 174 of my fifth-grade reading textbook, I was transported into another world.
It was an ordinary day. My classroom was arranged in its usual 2x2 desk to table...
My Chanukah Chaburah Odyssey
A rite of passage for Shana Aleph talmidim in Yeshivat Hakotel is giving a Chanukah chaburah. This is a formal shiur that requires hours of research and preparation. As...
Yeshiva Students Reflect On The War Effort
By Jonah Blitman, Yonatan Bodner, and Alex Wieden
The three of us are Shanah Alef students at Aish Gesher in the Old City of Jerusalem. Of course, none of us...
Jewish Life At MIT: An Orthodox Perspective
By Yaakov Zerykier and Yochanan Sragow
Since October 7, anti-Semitism has skyrocketed across the United States, but nowhere is this felt more keenly than on college campuses across the country....
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