This is one of the projects that I am most proud of. We took a group of 6th graders and we let them design their own Kiddush cup. Each student was responsible for his cup from the beginning to completion. From modeling their own Kiddush cup based on their own taste
OlamiResources.com is honored to present free to the Olami Community and beyond, Rabbi Avraham Edelstein’s new landmark sefer, The Laws of Outreach. We are featuring the sefer to the readership of OlamiResources.com in downloadable installments over the next few months. We are greatly appreciative that Rabbi Edelstein has kindly offered to share this important publication, including extensive... Read more »
With the dramatic shift in weather patterns over the past few years, with wild swings of hot and cold seasons, very dry and very wet years, more snow in winters and higher temperatures in summers (2015 was the hottest year ever recorded), more and more people are convinced that these shifts are due to global
At Olami Resources, we keep our eye on the news to bring you timely articles and links that we think a rabbi or Jewish educator would find interesting! We have decided to share some of these links in a weekly feature on the blog. Enjoy! 1) Instagram just put ads in one of its last ad-free... Read more »
Olami Resources is happy to present the second in a series of free installments of Tod Jacob’s and Peter Lynn’s (aka Rabbi Avraham Yitzchok Jacobs & Rabbi Yosef Lynn of Machon Yaakov) highly
In their book Switch, authors Chip and Dan Heath write about an idea called ‘Shrink the Change’ to get people to change their behavior. The concept is based on the fact that people are more
There was an amazing donor experiment done by US based foodforthepoor.org It's a billion dollars a year, food and humanitarian aid organization. Their executive director, Angel Aloma, sent an additional thank-you letter out to their donors in the month of February of that year.
Recently, a group of kiruv professionals from one organization met with Rav Chaim Kanievsky Shlit”a. This organization offers a range of kiruv programs for unobservant young men in the mornings, evenings or weekends (depending on interest). As is known, in our generation the
There are no special mitzvos of outreach. All of the mitzvos that relate to outreach are simply extensions of the concern that we must have for the spiritual well-being of our fellow Jew in general, whether or not he is observant. There are numerous Torah-based and rabbinically
As a busy rabbi or educator, we are constantly called upon to speak and offer educational words of inspiration and wisdom. That said, there are occasions when we cannot digress and are allocated a limited amount of time to speak and convey our message. Wordstotime.com is a quick
