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  • Parashat Korach

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  • Rabbaniot Training Program in Sderot

    The city of Sderot works hard to strengthen the emotional resilience of its residents who grapple with the stress and anxiety of ongoing missile attacks from Gaza. Living in a cohesive community has a significant impact on the

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  • Puah Institute Training Course

    Participants in Barkai’s sixth rabbinical training program recently completed a long and intensive course in the area of medicine and halakha in conjunction with the Puah Institute. Majority of the course was taught by Rabbi Aryeh

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  • Shabbat Barkai

    On Shabbat Vayakheil-Pikudei, the Barkai Center conducted a special alumni weekend for past program participants. The weekend featured a collaborative learning session about Shabbat Hagadol, as well as workshops and

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  • Symposium: The Challenges and Opportunities Presented by Aging Members in the Community

    In light of medical advancement and the extended human life span, communal rabbis and the community itself are presented with the opportunity and obligation to provide an optimal environment for aging community members. In the month of

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  • Rabbaniot Training Program

    In recent months, the Barkai Center conducted three workshops for rabbaniot, the wives of community rabbis, aimed at strengthening the relationship between the rabbis and their wives.

    The first workshop

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  • Celebrating 75 Years!

    Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, of Blessed memory celebrated Yom Haatzmaut with great passion and excitement. Besides discussing the events of the current times, he would speak every year about the chapter of Psalms that corresponded to the

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  • Public Speaking Course

    Participants in Barkai’s sixth rabbinical training program recently completed a comprehensive course about the art of public speaking. Taught by Guy Yariv, the director of The School for Public Speaking and an international debate

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  • Prayer Within Prayer

    The Second Lebanon War (2006) caught me at the age of 30 (my wife and sister celebrated my birthday without me) with two small children and my wife in early pregnancy.

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  • For Our Country Every Effort is Worth it

    My name is Yossi Chazan. I am a Barkai rabbi and I am the rabbi in Beit Yatir which is in the southern mountains of Hevron.  I served in the IDF as a soldier in the Paratroopers and afterwards as an

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  • Sister Communities and Rabbinic Exchange

    Several weeks a new, groundbreaking project of the Barkai Center was launched in partnership with the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA):  sister communities and a rabbinic exchange between communities in North America and the State of

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  • Chanukah Family Day of Learning and Fun

    On the last day of Chanukah, the Barkai Center held a special day of learning dedicated to marital counseling for the Barkai rabbis and their wives.  The tools that they learned will be helpful to their own marriages as well as help them in

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  • Chaplaincy Course and The Conversation Training

    Recently, the 4th Cohort of Barkai Center rabbis completed a course on Chaplaincy at the Lew Pell Center for Chaplaincy Studies. The rabbis studied under the direction of Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Glass, a certified chaplain at the Herzog Hospital in

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  • The "Communities on Fire" Project

    During Chanukah the Barkai Center posted on Facebook and on WhatsApp groups one post for each of the eight days that showcase the important community work that is being done by our rabbis.

    Below is an English

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  • Studies in Practical Halacha

    An important area of the training that the Barkai Center offers is practical Halacha.  A Rabbi must constantly remain up to date in his knowledge of practical Halacha.  Here is a brief summary of what the rabbis have been studying in

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  • New Office Manager for Barkai

    On December 1st, 2019 Amit Baron joined Barkai’s team as our new Office Manager. Amit lives in Modiin, is married and is a mother to two children.  She has an MA in Organizational Consulting and is a certified coach. After recently

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  • Government Support for Barkai from the Ministry of Religious Services

    Last month, the Barkai Center was informed that for the third year it received a modest amount of governmental funding. Barkai was the only organization of its kind to receive this funding from the

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