Picking a bat mitzvah tzedakah project was no easy feat, especially for sixth grader Alisha Eisner, who attends Yeshivat Noam. Notably, in our community alone,

May the learning serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h.   This week we learned Bava Metzia 24.

In 1924 the Moshav of Magdiel was founded in what would later become Hod Hasharon. Magdiel was a Moshav of agriculturists during the first Yishuv

It is time to tackle this all-important word. There are two issues involved: 1) what is the meaning of the root PLL? and 2) what

There is no shortage of books nowadays that grapple with the tensions between contemporary science and Bereishit Perek 1. From the conservative views of Rav

Parshat Bereishit The navi Yeshayahu opens his book excoriating the nation for their sins and their abandonment of God (the selection we read on the

This week, in the Creation story, we read about the creation of man. Adam is given one command, not to eat of the fruit of

It seems like all my biggest “crimes” against myself stem from the same thought cluster: playing it small. My set of beliefs about myself are

In our tefillot and Torah readings during Elul and the Yomim Nora’im, the trait of areyvut was a prominent theme. Areyvut, which speaks to the

Part II Do children in a keyboard world need to learn old-fashioned handwriting? There is a tendency to dismiss handwriting as a nonessential skill, even

“Ein adam lomed ella b’makom she’libo chafetz—A person learns best in a place his heart desires (Gemara Avoda Zara 19a).” Chazal, in their wisdom, recognized

A new school-wide initiative has come to life in RYNJ this year. As we continue to promote and nurture the values and middot our yeshiva