Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, in partnership with Nefesh B'Nefesh, presents

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  • Rabbi Shalom Carmy: "Kol Dodi Dofek: A Primer"
  • Deena Rabinovich, EdD: "The Five Derashot and the Rav’s Engagement with the Zionist Project"

    • Seven Decades of Torah Life in the State of Israel
  • Aryeh Sklar: "Introduction"
  • Aron White: "14th May 1948 – A Touch Of Holiness"
  • Chezkie Glatt: "Yerushalayim’s Unique History As The Shared Heart Of Our Nation"
  • Jacob Bernstein: "Chasing a Torah Revolution: Ki Mitzion Tetzei Torah"
  • Shua Brick: "Prisoners of Zion and the Responsibility of Freedom"
  • Ben Keil: "Operation Solomon"
  • Eli Muschel: "Turning Our Eyes Toward Our Father In Heaven"
  • Sam Dratch: "The Modern State Of Israel: To Dream With Eyes Wide Open"
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  • Rabbi Assaf Bednarsh: "The Unification of Jerusalem"
  • Rabbi Yehoshua Fass: "A Blessed Life"
  • Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein zt”l: "The Multifaceted Relationship between Jerusalem and the Land of Israel"
  • Rabbi Daniel Mann: "Yom Ha’atzmaut and the Disappearance of The Three Oaths: An Analysis of Rav Shaul Yisraeli’s Approach"
  • Ilana Turetsky, Ed.D.: "Why Israel Matters: Ramban and the Uniqueness of the Land of Israel"
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  • Mrs. Stephanie Strauss - "Yom Haatzmaut: An Introduction"
  • Rabbi Nissim Abrin - "Eretz Yisroel: The Prism of God"
  • Rabbi David Bigman - "The Meaning of the Establishment of the State of Israel"
  • Mrs. Dina Blank - "Yom Ha'atzmaut: Heeding the Call"
  • Rabbi Jesse Horn - "Eretz Yisrael and the First 61 Chapters of the Torah"
  • Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky - "Kedushat Eretz Yisrael"
  • Rabbi Moshe Lichtman - "Simchah Shel Mitzvah"
  • Rabbi Chaim Pollock - "A Torah Approach to Medinat Yisrael"
  • Rabbi Azriel Rosner - "Three Days before Aliyah"
  • Rabbi Ari Shvat - "What's So Important About Eretz Yisrael?!"

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  • Rabbi Naphtali Lavenda - "From L'Shana Haba'ah to Hatikva: An Expression of Hope and Prayer on Exalted Nights"
  • Rebbetzin Meira Davis - "Parents' Perspective on Their Children's Aliyah: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (It's All Good)"
  • Rabbi Kenny Schiowitz - "Aspiring With the Ramban"

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  • Rabbi Reuven Brand - "A Complex Reality"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner - "And to Their Seed After Them"
  • Collected Insights on Israel from Members of the YU Torah MiTzion Community Kollelim

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  • Rabbi Dr. Aharon Rakeffet-Rothkoff - "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"

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  • Rabbi David Brofsky - "The Halakhic Basis for Yom Ha-Atzmaut"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg - "Jewish Nationalism" (Hebrew)
  • Mrs. Esther Grossman - "Preparation for the First National Aliyah: A Study of Sefer Yehoshua's First Chapter"
  • Rabbi Ari Heller - "The Religious Nature of Yom Ha'atzmaut"
  • Rabbi Moshe Lichtman - "Peninei Halachah on Yom HaAtzma'ut"
  • Rabbi Avraham Lubarsky - "The Inner Relationship Between the Holocaust and The Establishment of the State of Israel"
  • Rabbi David Milston - "The Holy of Holies"
  • Rabbi Michael Siev - "Practicing Jew?"
  • Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky - "Is Yom Haatzmaut Worth a Hallel?"


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  • Rabbi Azarya Berzon - "On the Love for Zion"
  • Rabbi Dr. Hillel Davis - "Connecting geulah to tefillah: A daily affirmation of the Religious Zionist"
  • Rabbi Binny Freedman - "Transforming the Pain of Yom Ha'zikaron into the Joy and Challenge of Yom Ha'atzmaut"
  • Rabbi Moshe Ganz - "The Meaning of Yom Ha'atzmaut"
  • Rabbi Alan Haber - "Is This the Final Geula?"
  • Rabbi Yonatan Kohn - "The Beginning of the Beginning"
  • Rabbi Dov Moshe Lipman - "The Redemption Process Has Begun"
  • Mrs. Chana Lockshin Bob - "Two Torah Stories (that might be) About Eretz Yisrael"
  • Mrs. Tzippi Rimel - "Israel as the Culmination of the Vision of the Prophets (Hebrew)"
  • Mrs. Shira Smiles - "Creating our Connections to the Land of Israel"
  • Rabbi Moshe Chaim Sosevsky - "Staking our Claim to the Land"
  • Rabbi Yair Spitz - "The Religious Significance of the State of Israel"
  • Rabbi Moshe Taragin - "An Ancient Echo"
  • Rabbi Pesach Wolicki - "Geulah: The End of Jewish Fear"


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  • Rabbi Norman Lamm - "Our Dependence Upon Israel's Independence"
  • Rabbi Yosef Blau - "The Religious Significance of Israel"
  • Rabbi Josh Flug - "Maintaining a Connection to the Land of Israel from the Diaspora"
  • Rabbi Eli Ozarowski - "Establishing Yom Haatzamut as a Yom Tov"
  • Rabbi David Pri-Chen - "The Roots of the Disputes over Yom HaAtzmaut"
  • Mrs. Daphne Secunda - "The National and Personal Calling of Shir Hashirim"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner - "Israel: Motherland and Mother"


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  • Rabbi Kenneth Brander - "The Mitzvah of Living in the Land of Israel: Is it a Biblical Commandment? "
  • Rabbi Josh Flug - "Should One Recite a Beracha on the Recitation of Hallel on Yom Ha'Atzma'ut? "
  • Rabbi Meir Goldwicht - "Israel: The Land of Perspective"
  • Aaron Steinberg - "Articles and activities for families"