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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 Jerusalem and there are relatively few restrictions on my movements and travel. After the horrific attacks of 10/7, Torah study in yeshiva took on a fervent […]
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 this is a time of war, much of the discussion in yeshiva leading up to Chanukah concerned the appropriateness of having celebrations, especially in Israel, and […]
Thanksgiving is a very important holiday for me, and my family and we celebrate it by incorporating both Jewish and American traditions. Our seudah is lavish with extended family joining us and I look forward to the holiday specific “simanim” foods served. (My mother, a veritable “First Lady of Poultry,” makes spectacular turkey that […]
By Josiah N. Gampel It is an odd assignment to write about life in yeshiva while a terrible war rages in Israel. On the one hand, within the cocoon of the Rova, almost certainly one of the safest places for a Jew to be anywhere in the world, the war feels remote. War is something […]