Shearim

B"H Male Ba'alei Teshuva (secular Jews becoming religious) act very different from female Ba'alot Teshuva. At least in many ca...

B”H In his commentary on this week’s Parashat Bamidbar, the Chatam Sofer (Rabbi Moshe Schreiber, 1762 – 1839) quotes from the Midrash Rabb...

Edmonton / Canada Photo: NASA B"H For whatever reason you decide to become a Ba'al Teshuva. More than ten years ago, I made thi...

B"H Since I moved back to Tel Aviv a little more than a month ago, my religious life has been helter skelter like. Ups and downs and I...

B”H Have you ever tried putting your mind into someone else's position ? Of G – d, of other Yeshiva students, of the Rosh Yeshiva, t...

B”H I am writing this according to my own experience:  When you are part of the haredi world and may enter an emotional crisis such as depr...

B"H I am just coming out of a good shiur although some people keep on warning me not to get too attached to Chabad teachings.:-) I am ...

B"H It is never too late and we always keep on learning: Last Shabbat I learnt about the amazing  Victor Frankl ... We stumbled o...

B"H Yesterday I had a discussion with an academic artist. A woman who studied art, has a degree and collects any books on art or trave...

Picture: Kolel B"H Tel Aviv is like New York ! Open minded and big. Not as huge as New York but it offers enough room to hide. ...

B"H Further Mea Shearim demonstrations took place last night. The municipality of Jerusalem announced that, so far, a damage of 500.000...

B"H The Tel Aviv Film Festival is taking place from April 11 - April 30, 2009. One of the main subjects are Austrian movies and one rea...

B"H I found this picture in an Israeli haredi forum and it actually describes this extraordinary kind of bicycle for the whole family. ...

B"H Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch once wrote a commentary of why Esav and Yaakov turned out in such different ways. As we all know, Esav ...

B"H About 50 people showed up for the lecture in the Feldman Building of Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Institute for Advanced Studies...

B"H Since I intensely started studying about Judaism (which has now been for about 13 years), I have been using the chances to look int...

B"H Every country has its city where people can just escape to. In Israel the place is called "Tel Aviv". You want to leave h...

B"H For all those who, like me, need a second chance: With the beginning of the month of Elul, we already start thinking about the spee...

B"H Just recently, I witnessed a very interesting scene and to tell the truth, I was glad not to be too much involved. I was sitting to...