Until now, bochurim may have found it challenging to find the time and resources to prepare for semicha. Lemaan Yilmedu ...

She received her semicha, or rabbinic ordination, on Monday in London from British-born Israeli academic and rabbi, Dr. Daniel Sperber, after he administered a two-hour exam. Brawer, who was born ...

Rabbi Jessica Goldberg is Bucknell's Jewish Chaplain and Hillel Director. Rabbi Goldberg received semicha (rabbinic ordination) from the pluralistic Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Boston, MA.

Ten years later, when I also received my doctorate from Bar-Ilan University (writing about the menstrual purity laws and mikveh, or ritual bath), he granted me his personal semicha, or ordination ...

A fierce flood wiped out all of humanity, reshaping the natural world in its wake. Humanity’s repeated rebellions and betrayals, followed by divine retribution had reached a breaking point. After the ...

list=PLynSVeS5_iNhHleKroA6r3br-bmaHQigk) After college and Semicha at Yeshiva University my first pulpit was Ogilvy where I wrote TV commercials for brands like American Express, Huggies and Duracell.

The goal of this column is to help you think about the spectrum of a topic in Torah and see the truth within every opinion of the sugya.

such as Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi’s failed attempt to give Yehuda Yarchina’ah semicha (see Bava Metzia 85b and Rashi.) However, Tzidkas Hatzadik (39) cautions that even when we think that we are ...