The WebYeshiva Blog

What can we learn from pop culture? What is the value of stories, especially the fantasy stories that have become so popular over the last century? Each week, join Rabbi Uri Cohen and discuss the heroes

The book of Mishlei is composed of hundreds of diverse Proverbs describing a plethora of scenarios and phenomena. In this course with Dr. Lisa Fredman uncover the central themes of the book and see how Rashi’s

Each week join Rabbanit Dr. Tamara Spitz for her Daf Yomi: One Week at a Time course as she reviews the key topics of the previous week’s seven pages, gaining an overview of the entire

Karen Wasserstein, one of our wonderful Halacha Mastery Program students, recently completed all the course requirements and received her certificate.  A psychologist who specializes in fertility counseling and has a speciality in third party reproduction,

Over the millennia various technological advances have posed a challenge to halacha and yet our great sages have always referred back to our age old sources for answers and inspiration. In our upcoming new Halacha

Check out our new free, online live series Tales of Ailing Rabbis with Gila Fine. Suffering Is Precious: What, in the Talmud, is the worst disease of all? Can one treat a patient against his will? Is it

Join us for this special WebYeshiva.org event. To sign up CLICK HERE This is a virtual tour – The best way to appreciate Yom HaZikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) and Yom HaAtzmaut (Independence Day) is by going on a tiyul – walking

Rabbi Paul Terman is one of the WebYeshiva.org’s first recipients of semicha. Born in California, he grew up in Florida and it was during his time at the University of Miami where he became increasingly interested in Jewish observance. “Jewishly

Rabbi Allan Goldenberg is one of the WebYeshiva.org Halacha Mastery Program‘s first recipients of semicha. Rabbi Goldenberg was a prosecutor in the Cook County, Illinois, State Attorney’s Office and worked in a variety of areas including as a felony trial

Rabbi Jeffrey Green is one of the WebYeshiva.org first semicha recipients. Rabbi Green began his formal learning in the mid-1980’s at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem under the spiritual guidance of Rav Meir Schweiger. It was at that

Rabbi Dr. Bernie ‘Baruch’ Kastner is one of WebYeshiva.org’s first semicha recipients. Rabbi Kastner is a graduate of Yeshiva University and Columbia University. He served as an administrator at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and later on as

Rabbi Nathan Davidovich is one of WebYeshiva.org’s first semicha recipients. Rabbi Davidovich spent most of his life in Denver, Colorado until making Aliyah to Efrat in 1994. A 1963 graduate of the University of Denver College of Law, he has

Rabbi Dr. Daniel Kaganovich is one of WebYeshiva.org’s first semicha recipients. Aside from his four years learning in the Halacha Mastery Program he also has a BA in Biochemistry from Harvard University and a PhD in Cell Biology from Stanford University.