Yeshiva University and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary presents


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  • Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman: "Introduction: Strengthening Ourselves, Healing our World"

    • Jewish Identity in our Times
  • Mrs. Rachel Besser: "Pesach: Personal and National Dimensions of Ourselves"
  • Dr. Danielle Bloom: "Genesis: A Blueprint for Jewish Identity & Mission"
  • Dr. Erica Brown: "Reversing the Trend: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on Jewish Identity"
  • Rabbi Zvi Romm: "The Bad Days"
  • Elliot Steinmetz: "The Importance of Jewish Identity in Non-Jewish Spaces"
  • An Interview with Rabbi Reuven Taragin
  • Dr. Noam Wasserman: "A "U" Identity in the Workplace and in the Beis Medrash"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Djavaheri: "Sepharadim Living in an Ashkenazi Community"
  • Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz: "A Crunchy Conundrum: Can Ashkenazim Eat Soft Sephardic Matzah?"

    • Pesach Insights in memory of Rabbi Zevulun Charlop zt"l
  • Rabbi Zevulun Charlop: "Selected Pesach Insights"
  • Rabbi Yaakov Neuburger: "B'Rechush Gadol: With Great Wealth"
  • Rabbi Ari Zahtz: "Savoring Spiritual Sparks"

    • Pesach Insights
  • Dr. Nechama Price: "Understanding the Unexpected"
  • Excerpts from Batei Yosef: "Bedikas Chametz Insights from The Rav"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Willig: "All the Days of Your Life: What is the Obligation?"
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  • Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman: "Introduction: The People Missing From Our Seder"

    • Perspectives on the Haggada
  • Rabbi Michael Taubes: "Insights from The Rav on the Maggid Section of the Haggadah"
  • Perspectives on Pesach: Rabbi Aharon Ciment, Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff, Deena Rabinovich EdD, Rabbi Yona Reiss, Rabbi Shay Schachter, Rabbi Mordechai Schiffman, Psy.D. and Shaina Trapedo, PhD

    • RIETS Halacha
  • Rabbi Kalman Laufer: "Celiac Disease, Matzah and Patient Autonomy"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Willig: "The Timing of Searching, Selling and Burning the Chometz"
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  • Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman: "Introduction: Embracing the Narrative Arc of the Jewish People"
  • Six Perspectives on Pesach: Rabbi Yosef Blau, Rabbi Aaron Cohen, Rabbi Daniel Coleman, Rebbetzin Marjorie Glatt, Rabbi Shmuel Ismach, and Rabbi Lawrence Teitelman

    • Assimilation, Acculturation & Identification in 2022
  • Rabbi Josh Blass: "Bringing Intentionality to Everything We Do"
  • Dr. Erica Brown: "Where Everybody Has a Name"
  • Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner: "Names and Slavery"
  • Rabbi Ezra Schwartz: "The Metzuyanim Challenge of Too Much Acculturation"

    • Moving on from Seder Night
  • Mrs. Penina Bernstein: "Fear and Faith: Lessons from the Sea"
  • Rabbi Yaakov Glasser: "The Mitzvah to Eat Matzah all Seven Days"
  • Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz: "Parties, Ballgames and Movies During Sefirah"

  • Aliyah Profiles: Rabbi Avi and Esti Kilimnick, Rabbi Matt LeVee, and Rabbi Shmuli and Tali Kagan
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  • Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman: "Introduction: When the Stakes are High"
  • Seven Perspectives on Pesach: Mrs. Aliza Abrams Konig, Rabbi Elisha Bacon, Rabbi Josh Blass, Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff, Rabbi Dr. Daniel Lerner, Rabbi David Pahmer, and Rabbi Mordechai Willig

    • Preparing For A Post-Covid World
  • Rabbi Menachem Penner: "Relishing Pandemic Prayer, But Yearning to Return"
  • Dr. Yael Muskat: "Jewish Smachot, Revisited"
  • Rabbi Dov Winston: "The Impact of Covid-19 on the Local and Global Jewish Communities"
  • Rabbi Dr. Seth Grauer, Mrs. Elisheva Kaminetsky, Rabbi Jonathan Knapp and Dr. Laya Salomon: "Learning in the Time of Covid-19: Challenges, Lessons, and the Future of Jewish Education"

    • Aliyah During a Pandemic
  • Rabbi Moshe and Ariela Davis: "A Leap of Faith"
  • Dr. Moshe and Elizabeth Glasser: "Alone, But Never Lonely"
  • Rabbi Elie and Dr. Rebecca Mischel: "Go Home Jacob"
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  • Rabbi Yaakov Glasser: "Introduction: The COVID-19 Crisis is an Opportunity to Sanctify our Homes"

    • Understanding Chametz
  • Chaya Sima Koenigsberg, PhD: "Bread for Thought"
  • Mrs. Bracha Rutner: "Does Chametz Represent our Relationship with Hashem?"
  • Rabbi Yona Reiss: "Where and When Can I Shop After Pesach?"
  • Rabbi Ari Zahtz: "Finding Chametz on Pesach"

    • Torah Perspectives on Anti-Semitism
  • Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, PhD: "Bnei Torah Reflect on Anti-Semitism"
  • Rabbi Elchanan Adler: "We Are Not Alone: Perspectives on Jewish Victimhood"
  • Mrs. Sivan Rahav Meir: "Voices of American Jewry on Antisemitism: A Journalist s Perspective"
  • Rabbi Eli Belizon: "Shul Security: Halachic Perspectives"
  • Rabbi Etan Schnall: "Dressing Like a Jew in Public"
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  • Rabbi Yaakov Glasser: "Introduction: Expressions of Freedom In our Own Lives"
  • Rabbi J.Z. Spier: "Dedication in memory of David Rottenstreich a h"

    • A Torah Perspective on Vacation and Leisure
  • Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter and Rebbetzin Shana Yocheved Schacter, CSW: "The Importance of Leisure: Rabbinic and Psychological Perspectives"
  • Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky: "An Overview of the Laws of Chol Hamoed"
  • Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank: "Rambam s Guide to Chol Ha-Mo ed Trips"
  • Rabbi Michoel Zylberman: "The Shulchan Aruch's Guide to Planning Vacations"

    • The End of the Haggadah
  • Rabbi Meir Goldwicht: "Echad Mi Yodeah"
  • Rabbi Naphtali Lavenda: "The Power of Moments Through Nirtzah and the Steps of the Seder"
  • Dr. Deena Rabinovich: "Eliyahu Ha-Navi and the Seder Night"
  • Rabbi Zvi Romm: "Looking Past The Everyday: Understanding Chad Gadya"
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  • Rabbi Yaakov Glasser: "Introduction"
  • Rabbi Tanchum Cohen: "The Seder Table as the Original Beis Midrash, and as a Model for Ambitious, Aspirational High School Education"
  • Dr. Aviva Goldstein: "Mindfulness as a Remedy for Inattentiveness"
  • Rabbi Michael Taubes: "The Special Need to Provide Appropriate Chinuch to People with Special Needs"
  • Dr. David Pelcovitz: "Strategies for Dealing with Rebelliousness"
  • Ilana Turetsky Ed.D: "Maximing and Minimizing: Thoughts on Creating a Family-Friendly Seder"
  • Rabbi Daniel Price: "Transforming Your Seder Into The Ideal Educational Experience"
  • Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn: "Complex Questions for a Complex Age"
  • Ms. Miriam Borenstein: "Once Upon... A Karpas"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Becher: "Cups, Karpas and Bnei Brak"
  • Rabbi Elchanan Adler: "Easy Come, Not So Easy Go: Reflections On The Removal Of The Makkos"
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  • Rabbi Yaakov Glasser: "Introduction"
  • Rabbi Elchanan Adler: "The Enduring Covenant: Insights into Bris Bein HaBesarim"
  • Rabbi Eliezer Barany: "Nachshon and the Jump Heard around the World"
  • Rabbi Dovid Hirsch: "The Mitzvah of Sefiras Ha omer"
  • Mrs. Aliza Abrams Konig: "Experiencing the Pesach Seder"
  • Cantor Macy Nulman zt l: "The Shirah Melody in the Ashkenazic and Sephardic Traditions"
  • Professor Nechama Price: "Moral Clarity Found in Our Hagaddah"
  • Rabbi Etan Schnall: "Kosher for Passover Teeth?!"
  • Collected Hagadah Insights from RIETS Rabbinic Alumni Living In Israel
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  • Rabbi Benjamin Blech - "The Seder of the Seder"
  • Rabbi Reuven Brand - "Defining Mesorah"
  • Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman - "In Time, Out of Time, or Beyond Time? Women and Sefiras HaOmer"
  • Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider - "The Giving Jew: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik on Yachatz and Hachnasat Orchim"
  • Rabbi Yona Reiss - "Understanding an Unfriendly Minhag: Not Eating Out on Pesach"
  • Mrs. Shoshana Schechter - "Freedom To Not Freedom From: Pesach and the Road to Redemption"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner - "When Iyov Left Egypt"
  • Ilana Turetsky, Ed.D. - "How do We Transmit Emunah? Maximizing the Pesach Seder"
  • Rabbi Daniel Yolkut - "The Original Birthright: Seder Night in Jerusalem"
  • Insights to the Pesach Seder from the Rabbinic Alumni Committee of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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  • Rabbi Kenneth Brander - Introduction
  • Rabbi Assaf Bednarsh - "The Message of Maggid"
  • Rabbi Josh Blass - "Freedom Revisited"
  • Rabbi Reuven Brand - "The Marshmallow Test: A Model for Success"
  • Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman - "Every Step Counts: Making it Through Sefirah Complete"
  • Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff - "Feel as Though You Left Egypt, But I Was Never There!"
  • Rona Novick, PhD - "Lirot Et Atzmo, Going beyond Empathy: A Psychological Perspective"
  • Rabbi Uri Orlian - "Anatomy of a Sale: Demystifying Mechirat Chametz"
  • Rabbi Ari Sytner - "Making God Part of the Passover Experience"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner - "A Haggadah Lesson in Divine Justice"
  • Rabbi Ari Zahtz - "Yachatz: Superfluous or Significant?"

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  • Rabbi Kenneth Brander - "Rabbi Akiva's Seder Table: An Introduction"
  • An Interview with Rebbetzin Meira Davis - "Growing up in Boston"
  • Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zt"l - "On the Study of Haggadah: A Note on Arami Oved Avi and Biblical Intertextuality"
  • Rabbi Yosef Adler - "Use of the Term Makom, Omnipresent, in the Haggadah"
  • Rabbi Reuven Brand - "What Is Judaism?"
  • Rabbi Menachem Genack - "Why Don't We Recite Shehecheyanu on Sefiras ha-Omer"
  • Rabbi Hershel Reichman - "The Dual Aspect of the Four Cups: A Core Idea of Pesach from the Rav zt'l"
  • Rabbi Hershel Schachter - "Charoses: Why Don't we Recite a Beracha?"
  • Rabbi Michael Taubes - "Insights from the Rav on the 'Maggid' Section of the Haggadah"
  • Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank - "Why We Shouldn't Rush the Seder Meal"
  • YUTeach - "Bringing the Classroom to the Seder Table"
  • Rabbi Dr. Aharon Rakeffet - "The Religious Zionism of Rav Soloveitchik zt'l: A Synthesis of Worlds"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner - "An Optimistic Zionist"
  • Rabbi Reuven Ziegler - "Rav Soloveitchik on the Significance of the State of Israel"
  • Rabbi Dr. David Shatz - "Afterword: Memorializing the Rav: Time and the Masorah"

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  • Rabbi Reuven Brand - "The Defining Moment: Once and Again"
  • Rabbi Menachem Genack - "Sippur Yetzias Mitzrayim as a Special Form of Talmud Torah"
  • Dr. Naomi Grunhaus - "The Reality of Freedom"
  • Dr. Jill Katz - "Celebrating Pesach in the Land of the Pharaohs"
  • Rabbi Yona Reiss - "The Freedom of Family"
  • Rabbi Eliav Silverman - "Pesach: The Festival of Liberty and Love"
  • Mrs. Natalie Taylor - "Geared To Go: She'eilat Keilim"
  • Haggadah Discussions for the Family: A Collection from Yeshiva University's Community Kollelim


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  • Prayer in Memory of those who were lost in Japan and for the speedy recovery of those who are ill and homeless
  • Rabbi Norman Lamm - "Novelty and Renewal"
  • Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman - "Bringing the Geulah Through Mekhirat Chametz"
  • Dr. Steven Fine - "Dining with Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Yehoshua: Two Early Pesach Sedarim in Context"
  • Rabbi Josh Flug - "Yetziat Mitzrayim and its Role in Shabbat and Yom Tov"
  • Rabbi Eric Goldman - "Maror: Finding Meaning in Life"
  • Mrs. Rivkah Kahan - "The Hatan Damim Episode: A Preamble to Yetziat Mitzrayim"
  • Rabbi Aryeh Leibowitz - "Pesach La-Shem: Separate Mitzvot for Separate Moadim"
  • Mrs. Nechama Price - "Splitting the Sea: Take Two"
  • Rabbi Ezra Schwartz - "Eating Matza all Seven Days of Pesach"
  • Rabbi Reuven Taragin - "The Pesach Haggada: Developing an Experiential Commemoration"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner - "What If I Don t Like Roast?"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Willig - "How Much Matza Do You Need to Eat?"
  • Special Supplement from the YU Torah Mitzion Kollel of Chicago


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  • Rabbi Norman Lamm - "Pesah, Matzah, and Maror"
  • Rabbi Reuven Brand - "Words of Redemption, Words of Creation"
  • Rabbi Josh Flug - "The Recitation of Hallel in Synagogue on the First Night of Pesach"
  • Mrs. Dena Knoll - "Chametz and the Altaration of Our Homes"
  • Mrs. Yael Leibowitz - "Moshe Rabbenu: Enough Said"
  • Rabbi Herschel Reichman - "The Messages of Galut Mitzrayim"
  • Rabbi Yonason Sacks - "The Mitzvah of Sippur Yetzias Mitzrayim"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner - "Matzah: A Lesson in Trust and Community"
  • Collected Insights into the Pesach Seder


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  • Dr. Harvey Babich - "Blood, Frogs and Lice"
  • Rabbi Reuven Brand - "Feeling Freedom"
  • Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman - "My House Is Your House: The Mitzvah of Hakhnassat Orchim "
  • Rabbi Joshua Flug - "The Mitzvah of Eiruv Tavshilin"
  • Rabbi Menachem Genack - "Rav Soloveitchik on the Destruction of Chametz"
  • Mrs. Yael Leibowitz - "The Heart of the Matter"
  • Dr. Michelle Levine - "From Darkness to Light, From Slavery to Redemption"
  • Ephraim Meth - "Awe and Freedom"
  • Rabbi Yaacov Neuburger - "So the Children Will Ask"
  • Rabbi Mayer Twersky - "Zeicher le-Mikdash"
  • Special Supplement - Activities for kids at the Seder!


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  • Rabbi Elchanan Adler - "Bread of Affliction or Bread of Exodus?"
  • Rabbi Eli Baruch Shulman - "The Bread of Affliction"
  • Rav Soloveitchik on the Pesach Haggadah
  • Rabbi Josh Flug - "Keeping Your Kids Engaged at the Seder: The Talmud's Caffeine-Free Method"
  • Rabbi Daniel Stein - "Is the Seder Table a "Round-Table" or a Lectern?"
  • Rabbi Michael Taubes - "An Understanding of Charoses & Karpas"
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  • Rabbi Joshua Flug: Exploring the Structure of Maggid
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  • HaRav Joseph B. Soloveitchik - "The Nine Aspects Of The Haggadah"
  • Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm - "Passover And Human Diversity"
  • Rabbi Kenneth Brander - "An Analysis Of Had Gadya"
  • Rabbi Meir Goldwicht - "Experiencing Yetziat Mitzrayim Through the Seder"
  • Rabbi Dovid Hirsch - "Twelve Questions On Hallel On Leil HaSeder"
  • Rabbi Baruch Simon - "Koach Hachesed V'haemunah K'hachana"
  • Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky - "The Sanctity Of The Home: The Message Of The Korban Pesach"
  • Rabbi Jeremy Wieder - "Introduction To The Text And Structure Of The Haggadah"
  • Rabbi Josh Flug - "Halacha Overview of Pesach related issues"
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