JChatting - interviews with a Jewish flavour

  Sivan Rahav-Meir is a media personality and lecturer. Married to Yedidya, the mother of five.  She works for Israel TV news, writes a column for Yediot Aharonot newspaper, and hosts a weekly radio show on Galei Zahal (Army Radio). Her lectures on the weekly Torah portion are attended by hundreds and the live broadcast attracts thousands more listeners throughout the world. Sivan lectures in Israel and overseas about the media, Judaism, Zionism and new media. She was voted by Globes newspaper as most popular female media personality in Israel and by the Jerusalem Post as one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world. This week we have an audio interview that can be found at the following link: https://youtu.be/2ufndxBhhFk

Rabbi Uri Cohen teaches at WebYeshiva and Midreshet Moriah. He received Semikhah from RIETS (YU) and Yeshivat Hamivtar. He also holds Masters degrees in Medieval Jewish History and Jewish Education from Yeshiva University. Through Torah MiTzion, he and his wife Dr. Yocheved Engelberg Cohen served as the first members of the Syracuse Kollel, and later as the first couple of the Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC) at Princeton University. They now live in Ramat Beit Shemesh. His eclectic lecture topics have included Talmudic Misogyny in Context, Harry Potter and the Value of Fantasy, Contemporary Orthodox Responses to Homosexuality, and How Not to Do Outreach. 1. What was a place, person or event that transformed your ideas, thinking, or perspective? When I was in the overseas program at Yeshivat Sha'alvim, one Shabbat we had a guest speaker – Rav David Samson. He spoke several times about Halakhic and Hashkafic aspects of Eretz Yisrael and Medinat Yisrael. His last session...

Rav Aviad Tabory is c urrently teaching Gemara, Halacha and Jewish philosophy at Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi in Jerusalem. In the summer, he serves as the Rosh Bet Midrash in Bnei Akiva Camp Stone. Rav Tabory received smicha from the Israeli Rabbinate, r eceived a degree in Jewish education from Herzog College, and graduated from the rabbinical training programme of Ohr Torah. Rav Tabory has taught in a variety of seminaries, including Michlelet Orot, Midreshet Lindenbaum, Midreshet HaRova, and took part in establishing a new Yeshiva High School in Susiya.  He s erved as the Rav Shaliach of the Jewish Agency to Bnei Akiva in the UK and as the founding community Rabbi of Alei Etzion in Hendon, London. Over the past few years, he visited communities as scholar in residence including:  T oronto, Amsterdam, Johannesburg, Manchester, London, Columbus, Ra’anana, Teaneck and Lawrence. Editor of “To Stand and Serve” (published by Maggid).  Author of  VBM   series on “Halac...