Rabbi Eliyahu Kohen

OlamiResources.com is excited to share a new engaging workshop integrating a seventeen-minute trigger film from the Hollywood classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The workshop capitalizes on 2001’s mass international appeal – it has been called “one of the most influential of all sci-fi films.” The workshop is inspired by the book, The 2001 Principle,... Read more »

In New York City’s Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, a private street called Rockefeller Plaza is situated between the RCA Building and the sunken skating rink. In order to preserve Rockefeller Center’s right of ownership of the street, each year the street is closed to all traffic, even pedestrian, for one day – a Sunday in... Read more »

The catalyst for this class is a popular misconception – asked by many university students to their campus rabbis – do Jews have horns? After we discuss the misunderstanding behind the myth, we explore the true perspective on how it originated – with the radiance of Moshe

Katie Roiphe is a Harvard and Princeton educated professor and author directing the graduate journalism Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at NYU. In an essay in Atlantic Magazine’s August 2021 edition, 16 Things to Remember at College, Dr. Roiphe offers advice to her college freshman daughter that she wished someone had given her. “Over the... Read more »

On May 7, 2016 a test-driver of a driverless Telsa was killed when neither he nor the car’s auto sensing system were able to avert a large white 18-wheel truck and trailer travelling in the opposite direction making a left turn across his lane on the highway. According to police reports, the car drove under the trailer knocking off the

Imagine a massive nuclear power plant energizing the planet. It could not compare to the impact the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem has had in bringing Torah to the world. In fact, many Olami rabbis and their rabbis studied at the famed Mir Yeshiva to gain a foundation in Torah study. It is fair to say,... Read more »

In what appears to be an unprecedented departure from a strictly factual, no-nonsense presentation of the news, the New York Times featured a story last week on the “importance” of sharing light gossip. What regularly features in Washington DC and LA papers is now poised to spread to NYC media as a purported means to... Read more »

Sometimes we can search high and low for cutting-edge topics to engage our current students and attract newcomers. Thanks to Disney+, a new animated movie has arrived that will keep us teaching non-stop through Pesach and beyond. The NY Times movie reviewer A.O. Scott pinpoints the draw of Disney’s latest release, Soul: “In about 100... Read more »

The actors Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, “partners” in real life for over 35 years, are starring as Mr. and Mrs. Claus in an upcoming Netflix holiday movie. The New York Times thought this was an auspicious moment for the couple, who rarely star together, to be interviewed. As the conversation progressed, the Times asked... Read more »

Please see this picture in the New York Times before continuing. A train that went careening over the end of elevated tracks in the Netherlands on Monday was left teetering about 30 feet above the ground. But no one was injured or killed in the accident — thanks to a sculpture of a whale’s tail... Read more »

Pages By: Rabbi Eliyahu Kohen

NEW! 2001: A Space Odyssey Workshop

New Class: What Rockefeller Plaza Can’t Teach Us About Shemittah

New Shiur: Do Jews Have Horns? Karan Or Panav

Transforming Professor Roiphe’s Vision of the College Experience

Morasha Class for Shemot: Take Control of Your Tesla & Strive for Leadership

“Never Say, ‘I Can’t’” – A Powerful Video Reflection on Rav Nosson Zvi Finkel, zt”l

Relating to the Post-Covid Prescription for Light Gossip

If Pixar’s New Film — Soul — Only Knew About Judaism’s “Great Before”

Mrs. Santa’s Hanukkah Menorah

A Whale Tale

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