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Rachel

Rachel Bluwstein Selaย (1890 โ€“ 1931) was aย Hebrew-languageย poet who immigrated toย Palestineย in 1909. She is known by her first name,ย Rachel,ย or asย Rachel the Poetess. Born inย Saratovย inย Imperial Russia, the eleventh daughter of Isser-Leib and Sophia Bluwstein, and granddaughter of theย rabbiย of the Jewish community inย Kiev. During her childhood, h...

Yitzchok Adlerstein

Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein is a senior staff member at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish advocacy group and international NGO. He holds the Sydney M. Irmas Adjunct Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. ย He is a frequent spokesperson for Torah Judaism in the secular media, andย writes prolifically for a wide spectr...

S.Y. Agnon

S.Y. Agnonย (1888โ€“1970) was the central figure of modern Hebrew literature, and the 1966 Nobel Prize laureate for his body of writing. Born in the Galician town of Buczacz (in todayโ€™s western Ukraine), as Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes, he arrived in 1908 in Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine, where he adopted the penname Agnon and began a meteoric rise as a young ...

Rabbi Yehuda Amital

RABBI YEHUDA AMITALย (1924โ€“2010) was raised in pre-Holocaust Hungary, where he spent his youth immersed in yeshiva study. At the age of nineteen, he was deported to a Nazi labor camp and emerged as the sole survivor of his family. Upon his liberation, he made his way to the Land of Israel. Fulfilling a promise that if he survived he would study T...

Rabbi Dr. Marc D. Angel

Rabbi Dr. Marc D. Angelย is Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City. He currently directs the institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, which fosters an intellectually vibrant, compassionate and incluยฌsive Orthodox Judaism. The author and editor of twenty-seven books, he is co-founder of the Interยฌnational Rabbinic Fellowship...

Rabbi Hayyim Angel

Rabbi Hayyim Angelย is the National Scholar of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals and the Rabbinic Scholar at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York. He has taught advanced Bible courses to undergraduate, graduate, and rabbinical students at Yeshiva University since 1996, and lectures widely. Rabbi Angel has published over 120 scholarl...

Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeldย is one of Israel's foremost living Hebrew-language authors, despite the fact that he did not learn the language until he was a teenager. His mother tongue is German, but he also understands Yiddish, Ukrainian, Russian, English and Italian. With his subject matter revolving around the Holocaust and the sufferings of the Jews in E...

Prof. Eliyahu Assis

Professor Eliyahu Asis is the author of books on Joshua, Judges, Song of Songs, Joel, and on the relationship between Edom and Israel. A member of the Tanakh faculty at Bar-Ilan University, Professor Asis served as the dean of the Jewish Studies faculty, and the head of the Tanakh department.

M.R. (Rhonda) Attar

M. R. (Rhonda) Attarย (nee Antelman) was born and educated in the U.S. (M.S. TV/Radio) and made Aliyah to Israel where she became a leading figure in the Israeli television industry launching ten TV channelsโ€”six in Israel and four worldwide. Mrs. Attar and her husband Rabbi Meir Attar are the co-founders and directors of the Tomer Devorah Beit Kn...

Yehuda Avner

Yehuda Avnerย (1928 - 2015) served as adviser and English speechwriter to Israeli Prime Ministers Rabin, Begin, Meir and Eshkol. He is a former Israeli Ambassador to Britain, Ireland and Australia, and served in diplomatic positions at the Israeli Consulate in New York and the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. Ambassador Avner was born in Manche...

Rabbi Amnon Bazak

Rav Amnon Bazakย studied at the Netiv Meir Yeshiva High School in Jerusalem and then came to study at Yeshivat Har Etzion. In the context of the Hesder Program, he served in the military rabbinate, and has received Semicha and earned a Bachelor of Education degree from the Herzog College. Rav Bazak served as a Ram at Netiv Meir Yeshiva High Schoo...

Simcha Benyosef

Simcha H. Benyosefย is the author of a significant collection of works written with the intention to elucidate esoteric aspects of Torahโ€™s inner teachings. As a Jerusalem resident, Benyosef has been blessed to learn directly from such imminent Torah scholars as Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, ztโ€™l, and Rabbi Raphael Moshe Luria, ztโ€™l, whose primary contribu...

M.Y. Berdichevsky

Micha Josef Berdyczewskiย (1865 โ€“ 1921), was a Ukrainian-born writer of Hebrew, a journalist, and a scholar. He appealed for the Jews to change their way of thinking, freeing themselves from dogmas ruling the Jewish religion, tradition and history, but is also known for his work with pre-modern Jewish myths andlegends. He wrote in Hebrew, Yiddish...

David Berger

David Bergerย is Ruth and I. Lewis Gorยญdon Professor of Jewish History and Dean at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies of Yeshiva University.

Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits

RABBI DR. ELIEZER BERKOVITS (1908โ€“1992) is widely ranked among the most important Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century. Born in Romania and educated at the famous Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary, he received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Berlin. He held rabbinical positions in Germany, England, Australia, and the United Sta...

Rahel Berkovits (ed)

Rahel Berkovitsย is a senior lecturer in Mishnah, Talmud, and halakhah at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, where she has been teaching for almost twenty years. She writes articles and lectures widely both in Israel and abroad on topics concerning women and Jewish law. Rahel is a founding member of Congregation Shira Hadasha, a...

Rabbi Ezra Bick

Rav Ezra Bickย a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion since his aliya from New York in 1977, currently teaches a second-year shiur for Israeli students. He is Director of the Yeshiva's Israel Koschitzky Virtual Beit Midrash Project, with more than 20 shiurim on varying levels reaching tens of thousands of individuals worldwide. Rav Bick earned his Semicha ...

Rabbi Yoel Bin-Nun

Rabbi Yoel Bin-Nunย is one of the founders of Yeshivat Har Etzion and Herzog College. His teachings and writings have contributed greatly to the Tanakh study revolution in Israel.

Ariel Augenbraun Blacher

Ariel Blacher and her family made Aliyah from Riverdale, N.Y., in 2006, with the help of Nefesh b'Nefesh. Gila Makes Aliyahย is Blacherโ€™s first book. The author drew upon her own familyโ€™s Aliyah experience in the writing of her book, in the hope it would assist other families prepare for and experience all the richness of the Aliyah process. Bla...

Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Benjamin Blech, born in Zurich in 1933, is an Orthodox rabbi who now lives in New York City. Rabbi Blech has been a Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University since 1966, and was the Rabbi of Young Israel of Oceanside for 37 years. In addition to his work in the rabbinate, Rabbi Blech has written many books on Judaism and the Jewish people, inclu...

Rabbi J David Bleich

Rabbi J. David Bleich is aย Rosh Yeshivaย andย Rosh Kollel le-Horaโ€™ahย at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Law and Ethics at Yeshiva University. He has served as visiting Gruss Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law...

Gerald J. Blidstein

Gerald J. Blidsteinย is Professor Emeriยญtus at Ben-Gurion University, where he served as Hubert Professor of Jewish Law and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.ย 

Ernst Israel Bornstein

Dr. Ernst Israel Bornstein was born in Zawiercie, a city in the Silesian province of southern Poland (60 km from Auschwitz) on the 26 November 1922. He was the oldest of four children. He was educated in Jewish schools and won a national essay prize at the age of fifteen. He was incarcerated in seven concentration camps, enduring the infamous โ€œd...

Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Brandes

Rabbi Yehuda Brandesย has headed Beit Morasha, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and Leadership in Jerusalem, since 1998, and serves as the academic director for the Center's Robert M. Beren College. He is also a lecturer at the Herzog College in Alon Shvut, was among the founders of the Ma'aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts, and f...

Y.H. Brenner

Yosef Haim Brennerย (1881โ€“1921) was aย Russian-bornย Hebrew-languageย author and one of the pioneers of modernย Hebrew literature. In 1902, Brenner was drafted into theย Russianย army. Two years later, when theย Russo-Japanese Warย broke out, he deserted. He was initially captured, but escaped toย Londonย with the help of theย General Jewish Labor Bund, whi...

L. Paul Brief

Paul Brief was born in Romania and educated at Lycรฉe Charlemagne in Paris and Columbia College in New York City. He received his MD from New York Medical College, then trained in orthopedic surgery at Manhattan's prestigious NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases in the 1960s. In 1965, he was commissioned as a United States Naval Officer. In 1969, he w...

Rabbi David Brofsky

Rabbi David Brofskyย has taught Talmud and halakha in yeshivot and seminaries in Israel, including Yeshiยญvat Har Etzion and Michlelet Mevaseret Yerushalyim. He currently teaches in Midreshet Torah Vโ€™Avodah, is a senior faculty member at Midreshet Lindenbaum, and writes a weekly halakha shiur for the Virtual Beit Midrash (VBM). He studied at Yeshi...

Dr. Erica Brown

Dr. Erica Brown is the Vice Provost for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University and the founding director of its Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacksโ€“Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership. She previously served as the director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership at The George Washington University and as the Scholar-in-Resid...

Nechama Burgeman

Nechama Sarah Gila Nadborny Burgemanย holds a Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi degree in cultural anthropology, with a minor in art history. After traveling the world, Nechama settled in Israel where she attended yeshivas in Safed and Jerusalem, learning from a large array of great teachers. A chassida of the Nadvorna Rebbe ztโ€l from Bnei Brak, N...

Rabbi Yosef Carmel

Rabbi Yosef Carmelย is head of the Eretz Hemdah Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and Av Beit Din of the Eretz Hemdah / Gazit rabbinical court.

Rabbi Yuval Cherlow

RABBI YUVAL CHERLOWย is rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Amit Orot Shaul in Israel. He is a graduate of Yeshivat Har Etzion, ordained by the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, a retired major in the IDF, and a founding member of the non-profit rabbinical organization Tzohar. He has published many books and articles on topics in halakha, biblical exegesis, modern J...

Daniel Chertoff

Daniel Chertoff worked in the investment industry inย both the United States and Israel as an analyst, as financial communicationsย counsel, and as a venture capitalist. Before discovering the cacheย of letters, he was happily writing his doctoral dissertation in Englishย literature at the Hebrew University. He is an associate editor of Partialย Answ...

Adam S. Cohen

Dr. Adam S. Cohen is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Toronto, where he has served as the Assistant Director of the universityโ€™s Centre for Jewish Studies and has introduced courses on Jewish art. Originally from New York, Adam attended Columbia University as an undergraduate and then completed his...

Dr. Gabriel H. Cohn

DR. GABRIEL H. COHN is an educator and biblical scholar at Bar Ilan University, specializing in literary exegesis of the Bible and the study of midrashic commentaries. In addition to his scholarly work, Dr. Cohn was the long-time head of Machon Gold, a teacherโ€™s college for women for the Diaspora. Through his teaching and writing, he has contrib...

Rabbi Levi Cooper

Levi Cooperย is an Orthodox Jewish teacher, author, and community leader who lives in Tzur Hadassah, Israel. He is a faculty member of the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem [1] where he teaches Talmud, Rambam, and Hasidism. Originally from Australia, Cooper lectures extensively on the topics of law and Halakha, Jewish spirituality ...

Pini Dunner

Rabbi Pini Dunnerย hails from a prominent German rabbinic dynasty that miraculously survived the Holocaust and reestablished itself in London, England. He is an acknowledged expert on antiquarian Hebrew books and manuscripts and is frequently consulted by libraries, academics, dealers, and private collectors. Rabbi Dunner currently serves as the ...

Zlata Ehrenstein

Zlata Ehrensteinย was born in Brooklyn, New York; the daughter of Rabbi Yehudah Leib, and his wife Chava. She grew up in Borough Park, learning first in Bais Yaakov, then in Bais Rivka, following which she earned a teaching degree, a profession for which she was greatly encouraged by the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Today, Zlata lives in Tsfat, Israel, whe...

Zev Eleff

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff isย Chief Academic Officer of Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois. He is the author of six books and more than forty scholarly articles in the field of American Jewish history. Dr. Eleff โ€™s most recent books,ย Who Rules the Synagogue?ย (Oxford, 2016) andย Modยญern Orthodox Judaismย (JPS, 2016), were both finalists for th...

Rabbi David Eliezrie

RABBI DAVID ELIEZRIE is a veteran Chabad shliach in Yorba Linda, California, and was previously the Jewish chaplain at the University of Miami. He is the president of the Rabbinical Council of Orange County and Long Beach, sits on the board of the Jewish Federation and Family Services of Orange County, and is active in local and national Jewish...

Chaim Natan Firszt

Chaim Natan Firsztย was born in Israel and at a young age moved with his family to Montreal, Canada. In Montreal, he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Concordia University, followed by a Teaching Diploma in English and a Master of Education Degree from McGill University. During his years of teaching in Montreal, the author learn...

Rabbi Yitzhak Frank

Rabbi Yitzhak Frankย studied at Yeshiva University and at the Telshe Yeshiva in Ohio. He received Rabbinical ordination from Yeshivath Rabbenu Yitzhak Elhanan where he was also a member of the kollel headed by Rav Aharon Lichtenstein (zt"l). He also received a B.A. in English and an M.S. in Religious Education at Yeshiva University. Rabbi Frank h...

Uriel Frank

Uriel Frank studied in Rabbi Shabbtai Sabatoโ€™s yeshiva in Mitzpe Yericho and Yeshivat Shevut Yisrael in Gush Etzion, headed by Rabbi Shabbtai Rappaport and Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Meir. He attained his academic degrees in Bible studies, Oral Law, education, and Hebrew language from Herzog College (BA) and the Lander Institute (MA). Frankโ€™s interest i...

Esty Frankel

Esty Frankel-Ferselย was born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn NY. She attended Bais Yacov through high school with a year of seminary in Israel. As a young adolescent, Esty joined a local art school where, for the next 15 years, she took instructional classes, learning the skills of copying and reproducing works of art with oil on canvas. She attended...

Robert Friend

Robert Friendย (1913 โ€“ 1998) was an American-born poet and translator.ย He settled in Israel in 1950, where he lived the rest of his life. He taught English and American Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for over thirty years. He was well known in Israel as an English-language poet and a translator of Hebrew poetry. Robert Friend wa...

Uri Nissan Gnessin

Uri Nissan Gnessinย (1879โ€“1913) was aย Russianย Jewishย writer, generally considered a pioneer in modernย Hebrew literature.ย Born inย Starodub, where his father was aย rabbi. He left home at an early age, and moved from oneย yeshivaย to the other, he had struck up a lifelong friendship with fellow Hebrew modernist author,ย Yosef Haim Brenner, who had atte...

Lea Goldberg

Leah Goldbergย (1911-1970) was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher.ย  Goldberg worked as a high-school teacher and earned a living writing rhymed advertisements until she was hired as an editor by the Hebrew newspapersย Davarย andย Al HaMishmar. She also worked as a childrenโ€™s ...

Hadar Goldin

Hadar Goldin, a Lieutenant in the Givati Brigade of the IDF, was a Jewish patriot, humanitarian and artist, and only 23 years old when he was killed on August 1, 2014 by Hamas terrorists.Hadar was a remarkably gifted young man, a happy and lively person with an easy and winning smile. He was an accomplished painter and graphic artist who address...

Rabbi Dr. Jay Goldmintz

Rabbi Dr. Jay Goldmintzย is a veteran day school educator who has published widely on curriculum, tefillah education, adolescent religious development and religious parenting. He served for over 30 years as a teacher and administrator at the Ramaz School and currently teaches in Ma`ayanot Yeshiva High School.

Rabbi Warren Goldstein

Chief Rabbi Drย Warren Goldsteinย is theย Chief Rabbiย ofย The Union of Orthodox Synagoguesย ofย South Africaย since 2005. The Chief Rabbi studied at theย Yeshivah Gedolah of Johannesburgย for more than fifteen years, where he received hisย rabbinic ordinationย from Rabbi Azriel Chaim Goldfein; he additionally qualified as aย dayanย through theEretz Hemda Ins...

Rabbi Shlomo Goren

Rabbi Shlomo Gorenย was anย Orthodoxย Religious Zionistย rabbiย inย Israel, aย Talmudicย scholar and foremostย authorityย onย Jewish law. He founded and served as the first head of theย Military Rabbinateย of theย Israel Defense Forcesย and subsequently as the thirdย Ashkenaziย Chief Rabbi of Israelย from 1973 to 1983, after which he established aย yeshivaย inย Jeru...

Jordan Gorfinkel

JORDAN B. GORFINKELย โ€“ Gorfย โ€“ is a cartoonist,ย musician, writer, producerย and proud husband andย father of four children.ย For nearly a decade Gorfย was a manager of theย Batman franchise at DCย Comics, where his creations serve as inspirationย for television, film, games and more. Gorfโ€™sย creative studio, Avalanche Comics Entertainment,ย produces custom...

Dr. Menachem Gottesman

Dr. Menachem Gottesmanย founded theย Mercaz Lโ€™Mida Datiย (Meled) Learning Center High School in Jerusalem after an extensive career in academia, research in the social sciences, as well as in education, and clinical consultation, both in the U.S. and Israel. After receiving a B.A. in Psychology from Yeshiva University in New York, he completed both...

Leah Gottesman

Leah Gottesmanย has a B.A. in English Literature and Education from City College of the State University of New York and an M.A. in Creative Writing from the English Department at Bar Ilan University. She divides her professional skills between teaching English, marketing, journalism, fundraising and tourism, and enjoys writing poetry and studyin...

Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg

RABBI IRVING (YITZ) GREENBERG is aย musmaแธฅof Yeshivat Beit Yosef Novardok (Brooklyn) and holds a doctorate from Harvard University. He is a leading Jewish thinker, and has written extensively on Jewish tradition in post-modernity, Jewish theology after the Holocaust and the rebirth of Israel, the new encounter between Judaism and Christianity, th...

Rabbi Dr. Zvi Grumet

Rabbi Dr. Zvi Grumetย is a master Bible teacher who lectures widely across the English-speaking world. Having earned his rabbinic ordination and Ed.D. at Yeshiva University, Rabbi Grumet dedicated the first eighteen years of his career to teaching Torah and leading educational institutions in the US. Today, he teaches at Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi, th...

Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock

Jeffrey S. Gurockย is the Libby M. Klaperman professor of American Jewish history at Yeshiva University. He is the author or editor of twenty books. His most recent work isย The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline and Revival of a Jewish Communityย (2016).

Joshua Halberstam

Grew up in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where both his grandfathers were Chassidic rebbes. He continued his Talmudic studies in rabbinical school and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from New York University. Halberstam has taught at NYU and Teachers College, Columbia University, and is currently a professor at BCC/City University of New York, where ...

Prof. David Halivni

David Weiss-Halivni was a specialist in Talmud and rabbinics. He spent thirty years as a member of the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary prior to his appointment at Columbia University. Although he has spent a large portion of his career focusing his attention on Talmudic source criticism, he later turned his attention toward biblical e...

Hillel Halkin

Hillel Halkinย is anย American-bornย Israeliย translator, biographer,ย literary critic, and novelist, who has lived inย Israelย since 1970.Halkin translatesย Hebrewย andย Yiddish literatureย intoย English. He has translatedย Sholem Aleichem'sย Tevye the Dairyman, and majorย Hebrewย and Israeli novelists, among themย Yosef Haim Brenner,ย S. Y. Agnon,ย Shulamith Har...

Dr. Stuart Halpern

Dr. Stu Halpernย is Senior Advisor to the Provost of Yeshiva University, and is responsible for developing and executing interdisciplinary thought-projects and educational and communal initiatives.ย During his 18 years at Yeshiva University, Dr. Halpern has served in various capacities, including Chief of Staff to the President, Assistant Director...

Rabbi Shalom Hammer

Rabbi Shalom Hammerย lives in Israel with his wife Gabi and their seven children. He serves as a lecturer in the Jewish Identity Branch of the IDF, the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, and communities throughout the Diaspora. He is also a contributing writer for The Jerusalem Post. His previous books includeย Derash Yehonatan: Around the Year with ...

Rabbi Meir Hanegbi

ืžืื™ืจ ื”ื ื’ื‘ื™ ื”ื•ื ืขื•ืจืš ื•ืžืœืžื“ ื—ืกื™ื“ื•ืช. ืขื•ื‘ื“ ืฉื ื™ื ืจื‘ื•ืช ืขื ื”ืจื‘ ืขื“ื™ืŸ ืื‘ืŸึพื™ืฉืจืืœ ื‘ื”ื•ืฆืืช ื”ืชืœืžื•ื“ ื”ืžื‘ื•ืืจ, ืขื•ืจืš ืกื“ืจืช ื”ืกืคืจื™ื 'ื‘ื™ืื•ืจ ืชื ื™ื' ื•'ืฉืœืฉื” ืขืฉืจ ืขืœื™ ื”ืฉื•ืฉื ื”'.

Rabbi Michael J. Harris

Rabbi Dr Michael Harrisย was born in London in 1964. He studied at three yeshivot in Israel: Maโ€™ale Adumim, Machon Harry Fischel and Yeshivat HaMivtar in Efrat. He holds semicha (rabbinic ordination) from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and from other prominent Israeli rabbis. Rabbi Harris obtained his first degree in philosophy from Cambridge Univ...

Rabbi Michael Hattin

Rabbi Michael Hattinย is a master teacher of Tanakh at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and serves as the Director of the Beit Midrash for the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. He studied for rabbinic ordination at Yeshivat Har Etzion and holds a professional degree in architecture from the University of Toronto. Michael is t...

Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot

Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgotย is head of the department of Torah SheBeal Peh at SAR High School in New York and rabbi of Kehillat Netivot Shalom in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Rabbi Marvin Hier

RABBI MARVIN HIERย is Founder and Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, one of the worldโ€™s foremost human rights organizations, with offices in the USA, Canada, Israel, France and Argentina. He heads the Centerโ€™s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, which has been visited by nearly six million people, and the Centerโ€™s film division, Moriah Films. U...

Ahron Horovitz

Ahron Horovitz is the director of the City of David Institute for Jerusalem Studies and head of Israel's Ministry of Tourism School for Tour Guides - Derech Eretz. He resides in the City of David with his wife Esther and their six children.

Rabbi Alex Israel

Rabbi Alex Israelย is an educator whose teaching over the past two decades has inspired thousands of students in the US, Israel and the UK to engage deeply with Biblical texts. He teaches at Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi and at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies where he is Director of Community Education and the Summer Program. An active writer, he ...

Miron C. Izakson

Miron C. Izaksonย was born in 1956 to a family that was among the first orange growers in pre-state Israel. He studied law and Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University, and was chairman for literature on the Israel Culture and Arts Council. At present, Izakson lectures on literatureย at Bar-Ilan University...

Rabbi Chaim Jachter

Rabbi Chaimย Jachterย has earned an international reputation as a Get (Jewish Divorce)ย Administrator, consultant forย community Eruvin and a prolific writer. ย His publications include aย series of four well-received books entitled Gray Matter on contemporary topics in Jewish Law.ย  He is a veteranย teacher ofย Judaic Studies at Torah Academy of Bergen ...

Elliot Jager

Elliot Jagerย was raised on New York Cityโ€™s Lower East Side, attended Mesiftha Tiffereth Jerusalem, Brooklyn College, and New York University. He worked as a manager in New York City government before moving to Israel. Jagerโ€™s journalism experience includes eleven years as a senior editor atย The Jerusalem Post. He was the founding managing editor...

Rabbi Jeremy Kagan

Born in Boston and raised in Hawaii,ย RABBI JEREMY KAGANย attended Yale University, graduating with a BA in philosophy. He first began studying Torah at Ohr Somayach while traveling in Israel during his college years. Following the completion of his degree at Yale, Rabbi Kagan returned to Israel to pursue talmudic studies, eventually becoming a st...

Enya Tamar Keshet

Enya Tamar Keshetย was born in Pardes Hanna, Israel, and studied at the Hebrew University and the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. She works in paper cutting, calligraphy and color illumination enhanced by gold leaf, all hand-crafted on parchment. She has exhibited extensively in Israel and the US, where her Megillot, ketubot, and other art p...

Yaakov Kirschen

Yaakov Kirschen, Political Analyst, Yale Fellow, Blogger, and Dry Bones Cartoonist. Kirschen was born in Brooklyn NY inย 1938.ย He studied art atย Queens College andย became a cartoonist after he graduated inย 1961.ย  In 1971 he moved to Israel, changed his first name from Jerry to Yaakov, and in 1973 began drawing a daily editorial strip calledย Dry B...

Rabbi Barry Kislowicz

Rabbi Dr. Barry Kislowicz served the Jewish community in Cleveland, OH for twelve years, most recently as Head of Fuchs Mizrachi School. He holds rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University and a doctorate in education from Columbia University Teachers College. Rabbi Kislowicz is a recipient of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship and Covenant Foundat...

Judy Klitsner

Judyย Klitsner is a senior lecturer at theย Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, where she has been teaching Bible and biblical exegesis for more than two decades. ย A disciple of the great Torah teacher Nechama Leibowitz,ย Judyย has had a profound impact on a generation of students, of whom many now serve as teachers and heads of Jewish studies progr...

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kookย (1865โ€“1935) was the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Eretz Yisrael. His unique approach to the Jewish People, flowing from a heart full of love, an intellect of cosmic scope, but above all, a soul invaded by mystic God-consciousness, endeared him to both the scholars and pietists of the Old Yishuv, and the settler...

Rabbi Norman Lamm

Rabbi Norman Lamm, former Chancellor and President of Yeshiva University from (August 1976 to August 2003)and former Rosh haYeshiva of its affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (2013), is one of the most gifted and profound Jewish thinkers today. He was the founding editor of Tradition, the journal of Orthodox thought published by...

Rabbi Binyamin Lau

Rabbi Dr. Binyami n Lau is an Israeli community leader, educator, and rabbi. He is the rabbi of the Ramban Synagogue in Jerusalem and head of the 929 Bible Project. Rabbi Lau also serves as a consultant for a number of leading organizations, is widely published, and is frequently cited in the media. He studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion and Yeshivat...

Naphtali Lau-Lavie

ย  Naphtali Lau-Lavieย was born in 1926 in Cracow, Poland. During the Holocaust he was imprisoned in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, and was liberated on 11 April 1945. In July he immigrated to Palestine, and then joined the Hagana and fought in the War of Independence in 1948. He pursued academic and talmudic studies at the Heb...

Rabbi Nathan Laufer

Rabbi Nathan Lauferย is former Director of Israel Programs for the Tikvah Fund, Founding Director of the Advanced Institute for Judaic Studies at the San Diego Jewish Academy and Founding Director of the Partnership for Effective Learning and Innovative Education (PELIE). Prior to holding these positions, he served as President and CEO of the Wex...

Michaela Lawson

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Shnayer Z. Leiman

Shnayer Z. Leimanย is Professor Emeriยญtus of Jewish History and Literature in the Deยญpartment of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College (CUNY) and also teaches at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University.ย 

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine

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Dr. Bryna Jocheved Levy

Dr. Bryna Jocheved Levy is one of the most esteemed Bible teachers in Israel and throughout the world. She is also a leader in the movement for women's Torah studies, and was the first woman awarded a doctoral degree in Biblical Studies by Yeshiva University. Dr. Levy teaches Bible at Matan: the Women's Institute for Torah Studies in Jerusalem, ...

Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein

Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtensteinย (1933โ€“2015) was born in Paris, France, and escaped the Nazi occupation with his family, arriving in the United States in 1941. After studying at Yeshivat Rabbi Chaim Berlin under Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner, he earned his rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University and his PhD in English Literature at Harvard University. Wh...

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtensteinย is rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion.

Joe Lieberman

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Asael Lubotzky

Asael Lubotzkyย was born in Jerusalem in 1983 and grew up in the town of Efrat. He studied at the Hesder Yeshiva in Maโ€™ale Adumim, before enlisting in the IDF, where he served as platoon commander in the Fifty-First Battalion of the Golani Brigade. Lubotzky led his troops fighting in Gaza and Lebanon, until his severe injury in the Second Lebanon...

Sherri Mandell

Sherri Mandellย was born in New York and graduated from Cornell University and Colorado State University, where she received an M.A. in Creative Writing. She taught writing at the University of Maryland and at Penn State before moving to Israel with her family in 1996. She is the author of Writers of the Holocaust and has written for numerous mag...

Abraham Mapu

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Ruth Mark

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Rabbi Yaakov Medan

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Rivka Miriam

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Yemima Mizrachi

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Yakov Nagen

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Uri Orbach

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Izzy Pludwinski

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Rabbi Michael Pollak

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Sivan Rahav-Meir

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Avi Rath

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Simcha Raz

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Matt Rees

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Elyashiv Reichner

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Daniel Retter

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Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon

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Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

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Daniel Rogov

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Daniel Rose Ph.D

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Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg (Shagar)

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Rabbi Shalom Rosner

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Dr. Mordechai Rotenberg

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Rabbi Haim Sabato

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David L. Sachs

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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

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Jacob J. Schacter

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Gershon Shaked

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Shmuel and Merav Shapira

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Chana Bracha Siegelbaum

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Rabbi David Silber

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Rabbi Shmuel Simons

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Rabbi Dov Singer

Rabbi Dov Singer is a recognized trailblazer in Israeli education and Jewish spirituality. He has attracted thousands of Jews of all backgrounds to workshops and prayer events to explore and enhance spirituality while going beyond ritual choreography. He is head of Yeshivat Makor Chaim and the Study Center for Renewal, is an educational innovato...

Rabbi Natan Slifkin

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Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

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Prof. Haym Soloveitchik

ื—ื™ื™ื ืกื•ืœื•ื‘ื™'ื™ืง ืœื™ืžื“ ื‘ื—ื•ื’ ืœื”ื™ืกื˜ื•ืจื™ื” ืฉืœ ืขื ื™ืฉืจืืœ ื‘ืื•ื ื™ื‘ืจืกื™ื˜ื” ื”ืขื‘ืจื™ืช ื‘ื™ืจื•ืฉืœื™ื, ื”ื™ื•ื ื”ื•ื ืžื•ืคืงื“ ืขืœ ื”ืงืชื“ืจื” ืœืžื—ืงืจ ื‘ื”ื™ืกื˜ื•ืจื™ื” ืฉืœ ืขื ื™ืฉืจืืœ ื•ืกืคืจื•ืชื” ืขืœ ืฉื ืžืฉืคื—ืช ืžึถืจืงื™ืŸ ื‘ื™ืฉื™ื‘ื”-ืื•ื ื™ื‘ืจืกื™ื˜ื” ื‘ื ื™ื• ื™ื•ืจืง. ืจื™ื• ื”ืงื•ื“ืžื™ื: "ื”ืœื›ื”, ื›ืœื›ืœื” ื•ื“ื™ืžื•ื™ ืขืฆืžื™: ื”ืžืฉื›ื•ื ืื•ืช ื‘ื™ืžื™ ื”ื‘ื™ื ื™ื™ื, ื”ื™ื™ืŸ ื‘ื™ืžื™ ื”ื‘ื™ื ื™ื™ื โ€” ื™ื™ืŸ ื ืกืš: ืคืจืง ื‘ืชื•ืœื“ื•ืช ื”ื”ืœื›ื” ื‘ืืฉื›ื ื–" ื•"ืฉื•"ืช ื›ืžืงื•ืจ ื”ื™ืกื˜ื•ืจื™".

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchikย (1903โ€“1993) was born in Russia into a family of renowned Eastern European rabbis. Initially trained in the scholarship of the sacred texts of Judaism, he enrolled at twenty-three at the University of Berlin in order to study physics, mathematics, and philosophy. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the philosopher H...

Rabbi David Stav

Rabbi David Stavย is Chief Rabbi of the City of Shoham & Chairman of the TZOHAR organization. Rav Stav is a graduate of Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav and has qualification for Dayanut (Rabbinical Judge) from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. Rav Stav lectures in the women's Judaic program at Bar Ilan University, authors a weekly column in the Israel Hay...

Rabbi Aviad Tabory

Rabbi Aviad Taboryย is an instructor in Talmud and Halakha at Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi in Jerusalem. He has also taught at numerous seminaries in Israel, including Orot, Midreshet Lindenbaum, and Midreshet HaRova. Rabbi Tabory served as Rav Shaliach for Bnei Akiva in the United Kingdom and was the founding rabbi of Kehillat Alei Tzion in London. He ...

Rabbi Binyamin Tabory

Rabbi Binyamin Tabory, aย talmidย of Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik andย talmid-chaverย of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, receivedย semikhaย from Yeshivat Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan and a Masterโ€™s degree in Jewish Philosophy from Yeshiva University. For more than thirty years, he gave an advanced Gemaraย shiurย in Yeshivat Har Etzion. He previously served asย rosh...

Rabbi Dr. Meir Tamari

Dr. Meir Tamari ย is the Director of The Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility in Jerusalem.

Yerachmiel Michael Tilles

Yerachmiel Michael Tillesย is a native of the Bronx. In 1965, he graduated from Harpur College (now Binghamton University) at age 20. After becoming Chasidic and getting married, he moved with his family to Israel in 1978 to โ€œthe mystical cityโ€ of Safed, where he has worked as a teacher, translator, webmaster, seminar designer and director, edito...

S. B. Unsdorfer

S. B. Unsdorferย was born in Bratislava, Slovakia, the son of the town's much-loved rabbi. At the tender age of nineteen he was torn from his parents at Auschwitz where they were selected for extermination on the night of their arrival in 1944. Simcha survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald death camps to make a new life in england where he self-taught...

Miriam Feinberg Vamosh

Miriam Feinberg Vamoshย is the author of several informative, illustrated books about ancient times in the Holy Land that have been translated into more than 30 languages. Her love affair with the Bible and ancient sources began in her parentsโ€™ home and led to her writing career. This love has deepened over many years as a tour educator in Israel...

Rabbi Menachem Waldman

Rabbi Menachem Waldmanย is a central and veteran activist in the struggle for the aliyah and absorption of Ethiopian Jewry. For many years he served as the representative of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate on the matter of Ethiopian Jewry and headed the Shvut Am Institute. In recent years, he has directed the Jewish Agencyโ€™s Jewish education programs...

Rabbi Berel Wein

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Susan Weingarten

DR. SUSAN WEINGARTENย is an archaeologist and historian. She was born in England, studied at Oxford University, and moved to Israel in 1973. After raising five children, she went on to study Classical Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, where she received her PhD. She has worked for many years as part of the research team of the Sir Isaac Wolfson...

Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

RABBI DR. TZVI HERSH WEINREBย is Executive Vice President, Emeritus of the Orthodox Union. For over seven years as Executive Vice President, he built the Orthodox Union to an unparalleled degree of esteem, as he combined the skills of pulpit rabbi, scholar, and clinical psychologist to provide extraordinary leadership to the organization and Orth...

Rabbi Avraham Weiss

Avraham Haim Yosef (Avi) haCohen Weissย is an American Modern Orthodox ordained rabbi, author, teacher, lecturer, and activist who heads the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in The Bronx, New York, from which he will be retiring in 2015. He is the founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a rabbinical seminary he refers to as "Open Orthodox", a term he co...

Rabbi Zalman Weiss

Rabbi Zalman Weissย is an Orthodox rabbi living Jerusalem, Israel. He received smicha from Rabbi Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg, and studied at the yeshivas of Kol Yaakov in Munsey, NY, and Ohr Samaych and MiLi in Jerusalem, Israel. Rabbi Weiss has been actively involved in the education of potential converts for many years, working with the Beis Din ...

Rabbi Tuly Weisz

RABBI TULY WEISZย served as a Rabbi for five years at the Beth Jacob Congregation in Columbus, Ohio beforeย moving to Israel with his family. He attended Yeshiva University (BA), Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminaryย (Rabbinic Ordination) and the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law (JD). He is the founder of Israel365, anย organization which promote...

Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank

RABBI NETANEL WIEDERBLANKย studied at the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, Kerem Bโ€™Yavne, Chevron Yeshiva (Givat Mordechai), Yeshiva University, and RIETS. Currently, he is aย Maggid Shiurย at Yeshiva University, where he teaches college andย semichaย students Talยญmud, Halacha, and Jewish Philosophy. Rabbi Wiederblank also serves as rabbi at the Yeยญshi...

Lawrence M. Wills

Lawrence Wills received his doctorate from Harvard Divinity School, and has taught there and at Episcopal Divinity School. His book, The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World, was named an Outstanding Academic Book of 1995 by Choice magazine for academic librarians, and he has also published The Quest of the Historical Gospel: Mark, John and the Ori...

Ruth Wisse

Prof. Ruth Wisse is a Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Tikvah Fund. She lives in Manhattan, New York.

Tamar Yellin

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Erez Zadok

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Dov S. Zakheim

Dr. Dov S. Zakheimย was Under Secretary of Defense (2001โ€“2004) and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (1985โ€“87) of the United States. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a D.Phil. from St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, and received rabbinic ordination from the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Walkin. A three-time recipient of the U.S. Departme...

Dr. Yael Ziegler

Dr. Yael Zieglerย is a lecturer in Bible at Herzog Academic College and at Matan Jerusalem, and author of Promises to Keep: The Oath in Biblical Narrative. A graduate of Stern College and Bar-Ilan University, she lectures widely in Israel, the United States, Europe, and South Africa. Dr. Ziegler resides in Alon Shevut, Israel, with her husband an...

Rabbi Reuven Ziegler

Rabbi Reuven Zieglerย is Chairman of the Editorial Board at Koren Publishers Jerusalem, Director of Research at the Toras HoRav Foundation, and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Yeshivat Har Etzionโ€™s Israel Koschitzky Virtual Beit Midrash.

ืื‘ื™ืขื“ ืขื‘ืจื•ืŸ

ืื‘ื™ืขื“ ืขื‘ืจื•ืŸย ืœื•ืžื“ ื•ืžืœืžื“ ื‘ื™ืฉื™ื‘ืช ืžืขืœื” ื’ืœื‘ื•ืข. ืขื•ืจืš ืืช ื›ืชื‘ ื”ืขืช 'ื“ืขื•ืช', ืกืคืจื™ื ื•ืžืืžืจื™ื. ืชืœืžื™ื“ ืœืชื•ืืจ ืžื•ืกืžืš ื‘ืชืœืžื•ื“ ื‘ืื•ื ื™ื‘ืจืกื™ื˜ืช ื‘ืจ ืื™ืœืŸ

ื‘ืŸ-ืฆื™ื•ืŸ ืขื•ื‘ื“ื™ื”

ื‘ืŸ-ืฆื™ื•ืŸ ืขื•ื‘ื“ื™ื” ืžืœืžื“ ื‘ื‘ื™ืช ื”ืžื“ืจืฉ ืณื—ื‘ืจื•ืชืืณ ืฉื‘ืื•ื ื™ื‘ืจืกื™ื˜ื” ื”ืขื‘ืจื™ืช ื•ื‘ืณื“ืจื™ืฉื”ืณ. ื‘ื™ืช ื”ืžื“ืจืฉ 'ื“ืจื™ืฉื”' ื”ื•ื ืžื—ืœื•ืฆื™ ื‘ืชื™ ื”ืžื“ืจืฉ ืœื ืฉื™ื ื‘ืขื•ืœื, ื•ืคื•ืขืœ ืžืฉื ืช 1979 ื‘ื ื™ื• ื™ื•ืจืง. ื”ื•ื ืžืฆื™ืข ืชื›ื ื™ื•ืช ื•ืžืกืœื•ืœื™ ืœื™ืžื•ื“ ืจื‘ื™ื, ื”ืคื•ื ื™ื ืœืžื’ื•ื•ืŸ ืงื”ืœื™ื ื•ืงื‘ื•ืฆื•ืช ืžื›ืœ ืจื—ื‘ื™ ืืจื”"ื‘, ื—ืœืงื ืคืชื•ื—ื™ื ืืฃ ืœื’ื‘ืจื™ื. ื‘ืฉื ื™ื ื”ืื—ืจื•ื ื•ืช ืžืคืขื™ืœ ื‘ื™ืช ื”ืžื“ืจืฉ ืชื›ื ื™ื•ืช ืœื™ืžื•ื“ ื™ื™ื—ื•ื“ื™ื•ืช ื‘ืืจืฅ ื”ืžื™ื•ืขื“ื•ืช ืœืงื”ืœ ื”ืกื˜ื•ื“ื ื˜ื™ื ื”ื™ืฉืจืืœื™.

ื“ืจื•ืจ ื™ื”ื‘

ื“ืจื•ืจ ื™ื”ื‘ย ื”ื•ื ื›ื•ืชื‘, ืขื•ืจืš ื•ืžืจืฆื” ื‘ื ื•ืฉืื™ ื™ื”ื“ื•ืช. ื‘ื•ื’ืจ ื™ื—ื™ื“ื” 8200 ื•ืื™ืฉ ื”ื™ื™ื˜ืง ืœืฉืขื‘ืจ, ื‘ื•ื’ืจ ืชื•ืืจ ืฉื ื™ ื‘ืชื•ื›ื ื™ืช ืœื™ื”ื“ื•ืช ื–ืžื ื ื• ื‘ืื•ื ื™ื‘ืจืกื™ื˜ืช ื‘ืจึพืื™ืœืŸ ื•ืžื ื”ืœ ื”ื‘ืœื•ื’ "ืคืฉื•ื˜ ื™ื”ื“ื•ืช". ืžืชื’ื•ืจืจ ื‘ืจืžืช ื’ืŸ ืขื ืืฉืชื• ื•ื™ืœื“ื™ื•.

ื”ืจื‘ ืžื ื—ื ืคืจื•ืžืŸ

ื‘ืŸ-ืฆื™ื•ืŸ ืขื•ื‘ื“ื™ื” ืžืœืžื“ ื‘ื‘ื™ืช ื”ืžื“ืจืฉ ืณื—ื‘ืจื•ืชืืณ ืฉื‘ืื•ื ื™ื‘ืจืกื™ื˜ื” ื”ืขื‘ืจื™ืช ื•ื‘ืณื“ืจื™ืฉื”ืณ. ื‘ื™ืช ื”ืžื“ืจืฉ 'ื“ืจื™ืฉื”' ื”ื•ื ืžื—ืœื•ืฆื™ ื‘ืชื™ ื”ืžื“ืจืฉ ืœื ืฉื™ื ื‘ืขื•ืœื, ื•ืคื•ืขืœ ืžืฉื ืช 1979 ื‘ื ื™ื• ื™ื•ืจืง. ื”ื•ื ืžืฆื™ืข ืชื›ื ื™ื•ืช ื•ืžืกืœื•ืœื™ ืœื™ืžื•ื“ ืจื‘ื™ื, ื”ืคื•ื ื™ื ืœืžื’ื•ื•ืŸ ืงื”ืœื™ื ื•ืงื‘ื•ืฆื•ืช ืžื›ืœ ืจื—ื‘ื™ ืืจื”"ื‘, ื—ืœืงื ืคืชื•ื—ื™ื ืืฃ ืœื’ื‘ืจื™ื. ื‘ืฉื ื™ื ื”ืื—ืจื•ื ื•ืช ืžืคืขื™ืœ ื‘ื™ืช ื”ืžื“ืจืฉ ืชื›ื ื™ื•ืช ืœื™ืžื•ื“ ื™ื™ื—ื•ื“ื™ื•ืช ื‘ืืจืฅ ื”ืžื™ื•ืขื“ื•ืช ืœืงื”ืœ ื”ืกื˜ื•ื“ื ื˜ื™ื ื”ื™ืฉืจืืœื™.

ื—ื–ื™ ื›ื”ืŸ

ื“"ืจ ื—ื–ื™ ื›ื”ืŸย ืžื•ืจื” ืœืชื "ืš ื‘ื™ืฉื™ื‘ืช ืžืขืœื” ื’ืœื‘ื•ืข, ื‘ืžื“ืจืฉืช ืขื™ืŸ ื”ื ืฆื™"ื‘ ื•ื‘ืื•ื ื™ื‘ืจืกื™ื˜ืช ื‘ืจ ืื™ืœืŸ. ื‘ืขืœ ืชื•ืืจ ื“ื•ืงื˜ื•ืจ ื‘ืžืงืจื, ื•ืžืงื“ื™ืฉืืช ื–ืžื ื• ืœืขื™ื•ืŸ ื‘ืฉืืœื•ืช ืฉื‘ื™ืŸ ืžืกื•ืจืช ืœื‘ื™ืงื•ืจืช. ืขื•ืกืง ื‘ืชื•ืจืชื ืฉืœ ื—ื›ืžื™ ื”ืžื–ืจื— ื‘ื›ืœืœ ื•ืฉืœ ื”ื‘ืŸ ืื™ืฉ ื—ื™ ื‘ืคืจื˜, ื•ืขื•ืจืš ื”ืืชืจ 'ื—ื›ื™ืžื โ€“ ืกื™ืคื•ืจื™ื ืžื—ื›ืžื™ ื”ืžื–ืจื—'.

ืงืœืžืŸ ืกืžื•ืืœืก

ืงืœืžืŸ ืกืžื•ืืœืก, ื™ืœื™ื“ ื•ื ืงื•ื‘ืจ, ืงื ื“ื”, ื”ื•ื ืžื™ื™ืกื“ ืณืฉืœื•ื”ืณ ื•ื ืฉื™ื ื”ืืจื’ื•ืŸ, ื“ื•ืงื˜ื•ืจ ืœืฉื ื›ื‘ื•ื“ ื‘ืื•ื ื™ื‘ืจืกื™ื˜ืช ื‘ืจ ืื™ืœืŸ, ืื‘ ืœืฉื‘ืขื” ื•ืื•ื”ื‘ ืื“ื. ื–ื”ื• ืกืคืจื• ื”ืจืืฉื•ืŸ.

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