Mazal tov to Jenny Piddleman (Blain) (SFW ’05, ’06)!

Mazal tov to Jenny Piddleman (Blain) (SFW ’06, ’07) and her husband and family on the birth of a baby girl!

שיזכו לגדלה לתורה לחופה ולמעשים טובים

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SFW Wins Inter-Seminary Tier II Basketball Championship

Like most of the other seminaries in our community, SFW has no shiurim on Monday nights (though we do have an optional Seder Erev and Chabura with Rav Felberman). Many of our students spent some of that time throughout the year representing SFW at the All-Girls, Inter-Seminary Basketball League. 

Tonight, the crowd was bigger than usual as many girls came to cheer on their friends as the SFW won the Tier II championship! We were proud of their playing and their middot!

Though they competed against many other seminaries, the league, the playoffs and the championship game reminded us that we're really all "on the same team."

Scenes from SFW: Lag BaOmer

Please click here for pictures from our trip to the Israel Museum, of our lunchtime activity with Elisheva Frist, our incredible Yom Iyun about Lag BaOmer and Sefirat HaOmer with Rav Knapel, Rav Koenigsburg, Rav Schenkolevski, & Shani Taragin. And, of course, our day would not have been complete without a roaring bonfire with singing, divrei Torah and food!

SFW's trip to the Israel Museum's Herod exhibit was generously sponsored by the Dachs family in honor of their daughter Julia (SFW ’13), of whom they are very proud, and in honor of the teachers and staff at SFW, who have made her year of study in Israel a meaningful and enjoyable chavaya (experience).

Mazal tov to Shira Stein (Zurndorfer) (SFW ’09, ’10)!

Mazal tov to Shira Stein (Zurndorfer) (SFW ’09, ’10) and her husband on the birth of a baby girl, Hodaya Chaya!

שיזכו לגדלה לתורה לחופה ולמעשים טובים

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Shiur on Lag Ba'Omer

Please click here to listen to a sicha (in Hebrew) about Lag Ba'Omer from the Rosh HaYeshiva, HaRav Yechezkel Yaakovson, shlit”a.

For other shiurim at Sha’alvim, please click here. 

S.E.M. Torah - Parshat Emor

Please click here to listen to S.E.M. Torah for this week.


For more S.E.M. Torah, please click here. 

S.E.M. Torah is a series of brief divrei Torah delivered by various members of the faculty of Sha’alvim for Women. S.E.M. stands (good-humoredly) for "Squeezing Every Minute" and represents an important philosophy at SFW: every minute counts and every minute can be used productively. Torah must be learned deeply and profoundly on the highest levels possible. However, even when you find that you have only a few moments, we believe that opportunities - like listening to this S.E.M. Torah - are always available…. if you know where to look!

Shiur on Parshat Emor

Please click here to listen to a shiur on the parsha from SFW's Menahel, Rav Yamin Goldsmith

For other shiurim at Sha’alvim, please click here. 

Mazal Tov to Abi Hyman (SFW ‘11)!

Mazal Tov to Abi Hyman (SFW ‘11) on her engagement to Daniel Elsant!

שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל

For other announcements see the scrolling list on our homepage or click here

Shiur on Parshat Acharei Mot - Kedoshim

Please click here to listen to a shiur on the parsha from SFW's Menahel, Rav Yamin Goldsmith

For other shiurim at Sha’alvim, please click here. 

Scenes from SFW: Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut

This past week SFW experienced - together with all of Klal Yisrael - the zeniths and the nadirs of Jewish history, the agony and the celebration of our people. We mourned with Klal Yisrael as we participated in Yom Hazikaron ceremonies commemorating the dedication and sacrifice of the thousands fallen soldiers of the I.D.F. who died al Kiddush Hashem defending our Homeland. And we celebrated - together with all of with Klal Yisrael - the miracles and opportunities afforded our generation in Eretz Yisrael and Medinat Yisrael!


Please click here to see pictures of these powerful days.

Click here for more "Scenes from SFW"

Baruch Dayan Ha'Emet

It is with profound sadness that we inform of the passing of Mrs. Baila Fogel z"l, long-time head of Sha'alvim's business office in New York.

Shiva information to follow.

בלע המות לנצח ומחה ה אלוקים דמעה מעל כל פנים

S.E.M. Torah - Between Yom Haatzmaut & Yom Yerushalayim

Please click here to listen to S.E.M. Torah for this week.


For more S.E.M. Torah, please click here. 

S.E.M. Torah is a series of brief divrei Torah delivered by various members of the faculty of Sha’alvim for Women. S.E.M. stands (good-humoredly) for "Squeezing Every Minute" and represents an important philosophy at SFW: every minute counts and every minute can be used productively. Torah must be learned deeply and profoundly on the highest levels possible. However, even when you find that you have only a few moments, we believe that opportunities - like listening to this S.E.M. Torah - are always available…. if you know where to look!

Mazal Tov to Tova Klapper (Kreinberg) (SFW ‘06 ‘07)!

Mazal Tov to Tova Klapper (Kreinberg) (SFW ‘06 ‘07) and her husband on the birth of a baby boy! Mazal tov also to Aunt Rivky Kreinberg (SFW '13)

שיזכו לגדלו לתורה לחופה ולמעשים טובים

For other announcements see the scrolling list on our homepage or click here

Yom Haatzmaut!

אָבִינוּ שֶׁבַּשָּׁמַיִם, צוּר יִשְׂרָאֵל וְגוֹאֲלוֹ,
בָּרֵךְ אֶת מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, רֵאשִׁית צְמִיחַת גְּאֻלָּתֵנוּ.
הָגֵן עָלֶיהָ בְּאֶבְרַת חַסְדֶּךָ, וּפְרֹשׂ עָלֶיהָ סֻכַּת שְׁלוֹמֶךָ,
וּשְׁלַח אוֹרְךָ וַאֲמִתְּךָ לְרָאשֶׁיהָ, שָׂרֶיהָ וְיוֹעֲצֶיהָ, וְתַקְּנֵם בְּעֵצָה טוֹבָה מִלְּפָנֶיךָ.
חַזֵּק אֶת יְדֵי מְגִנֵּי אֶרֶץ קָדְשֵׁנוּ, וְהַנְחִילֵם אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְשׁוּעָה וַעֲטֶרֶת נִצָּחוֹן תְּעַטְּרֵם,
וְנָתַתָּ שָׁלוֹם בָּאָרֶץ, וְשִׂמְחַת עוֹלָם לְיוֹשְׁבֶיהָ.
וְאֶת אַחֵינוּ כָּל בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל,
פְּקָד נָא בְּכָל אַרְצוֹת פְּזוּרֵיהֶם,
וְתוֹלִיכֵם מְהֵרָה קוֹמְמִיּוּת לְצִיּוֹן עִירֶךָ
וְלִירוּשָׁלַיִם מִשְׁכַּן שְׁמֶךָ,
כַּכָּתוּב בְּתוֹרַת מֹשֶׁה עַבְדֶּךְ:
אִם יִהְיֶה נִדַּחֲךָ בִּקְצֵה הַשָּׁמָיִם מִשָּׁם יְקַבֶּצְךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמִשָּׁם יִקָּחֶךָ. (דברים ל, ד)
וֶהֱבִיאֲךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ אֶל הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר יָרְשׁוּ אֲבֹתֶיךָ וִירִשְׁתָּהּ וְהֵיטִבְךָ וְהִרְבְּךָ מֵאֲבֹתֶיךָ. (דברים ל, ה)
וּמָל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ אֶת לְבָבְךָ וְאֶת לְבַב זַרְעֶךָ לְאַהֲבָה אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ בְּכָל לְבָבְךָ וּבְכָל נַפְשְׁךָ לְמַעַן חַיֶּיךָ. (דברים ל, ו)
וְיַחֵד לְבָבֵנוּ לְאַהֲבָה וּלְיִרְאָה אֶת שְׁמֶךָ, וְלִשְׁמֹר אֶת כָּל דִּבְרֵי תּוֹרָתֶךָ,
וּשְׁלַח לָנוּ מְהֵרָה בֶּן דָּוִד מְשִׁיחַ צִדְקֶךָ, לִפְדּוֹת מְחַכֵּי קֵץ יְשׁוּעָתֶךָ.
הוֹפַע בַּהֲדַר גְּאוֹן עֻזֶּךָ עַל כָּל יוֹשְׁבֵי תֵּבֵל אַרְצֶךָ,
וְיֹאמַר כֹּל אֲשֶׁר נְשָׁמָה בְּאַפּוֹ:
יהוה אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל מֶלֶךְ
וּמַלְכוּתוֹ בַּכֹּל מָשָׁלָה, אָמֵן סֶלָה.

Mazal Tov to Eliana Brecher (SFW ‘10, ‘11)

Mazal Tov to Eliana Brecher (SFW ‘10, ‘11) on her marriage to Moshe Watson!

שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל

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Sicha About the Beginning of Z'man Kayitz and About Rav Maaleh Galinsky z"l

Please click here to listen to a sicha (in Hebrew) about the beginning of the new z'man from the Rosh HaYeshiva, HaRav Yechezkel Yaakovson, shlit”a.

Rav Yaakovson also talks lovingly about Rav Maaleh Galinsky z"l who was niftar last week. Please click here to read about Rav Galinsky. 

For other shiurim at Sha’alvim, please click here. 

Scenes from SFW

For the latest "Scenes from SFW" please click here.

For other "Scenes" please click here.

Shiur about the Days of Iyar - Rav Ari Waxman at SFW

 

Rav Ari Waxman, Dean of the Moty Hornstein Overseas Program at Yeshivat Sha’alvim, delivered a very powerful sicha this week entitled “Anticipation: Pre-Requisite for Geulah.” 

In addition to offering his analysis of the Rambam regarding our role in bringing the ultimate redemption, he also read a powerful speech that Former-President of Israel Ezer Weizman delivered to Germany’s congress in 1996. Rav Waxman, with his gift of erudition and eloquence, “completed” and updated President Weizman’s speech for the 2013. 

To listen to the shiur, please click here.

Click below to read President Weizman's speech (translated into English) in its entirety.....

Sicha on Yom Haatzmaut

Please click here to listen to a sicha (in Hebrew) on Yom Haatzmaut from the Rosh HaYeshiva, HaRav Yechezkel Yaakovson, shlit”a.

For other shiurim at Sha’alvim, please click here. 

S.E.M. Torah - Rosh Chodesh Iyar

Please click here to listen to S.E.M. Torah for this week.


For more S.E.M. Torah, please click here. 

S.E.M. Torah is a series of brief divrei Torah delivered by various members of the faculty of Sha’alvim for Women. S.E.M. stands (good-humoredly) for "Squeezing Every Minute" and represents an important philosophy at SFW: every minute counts and every minute can be used productively. Torah must be learned deeply and profoundly on the highest levels possible. However, even when you find that you have only a few moments, we believe that opportunities - like listening to this S.E.M. Torah - are always available…. if you know where to look!

Tele-Shiur - This Thursday, Rosh Chodesh Iyar

UPDATED: Source sheet below 

Join us for our latest "Tele-Shiur” for Rosh Chodesh Iyarfor  our alumni around the globe!

Please join Rav Ezra Shapiro this Thursday, Rosh Chodesh Iyar (April 11).

The shiur will take place at..... 

Israel: 12:00 AM

Johannesburg: 11:00 PM
London: 10:00 PM
New York: 5:00 PM
Chicago: 4:00 PM
Los Angeles: 2:00 PM
Melbourne: 7:00 AM

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CALLING IN TO THE CONFERENCE CALL:

To participate in the conference call, please follow these instructions….

Conference Dial-in Number:

From Israel: 076-599-0100

From the USA: 559-546-1301
From Canada: 559-546-1333

From the UK: 784-843-2915 (NOTE: This is a mobile dial-in number. Please check with your phone provider for mobile calling rates.)

From South Africa: 87-825-0140

From Australia: 1-300-781-250

When prompted, for the Access Code, press 966023 followed by the # key.

After that, you’re in!

Please press *6 to mute your line. Press *6 again to un-mute the line.

We’re looking forward to learning with you!

Please click below for the source sheet for tonight's shiur.......

Mazal Tov to Nechama Goldstein (SFW ‘12, ‘13)

Mazal Tov to Nechama Goldstein (SFW ‘12, ‘13) on her engagement to Kovi Fleischmann!

שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל

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Yom Hashoa v'Hagevurah 5773

אֵ-ל מָלֵא רַחֲמִים שׁוֹכֵן בַּמְּרוֹמִים, הַמְצֵא מְנוּחָה נְכוֹנָה עַל כַּנְפֵי הַשְּׁכִינָה, בְּמַעֲלוֹת קְדוֹשִׁים וּטְהוֹרִים כְּזוֹהַר הָרָקִיע מַזְהִירִים אֶת כָּל הַנְּשָׁמוֹת שֶׁל שֵׁשֶׁת מִילְיוֹנֵי הַיְּהוּדִים, חַלְלֵי הַשּׁוֹאָה בְּאֵירוֹפָּה, שֶׁנֶּהֶרְגוּ, שֶׁנִּשְׁחֲטוּ, שֶׁנִּשְׂרְפוּ וְשֶׁנִּסְפּוּ עַל קִדּוּשׁ הַשֵׁם ִּידֵי הַמְרַצְּחִים הַגֶּרְמָנִים הָנַאצִים וְעוֹזְרֵיהֶם מִשְּׁאָר הֶעַמִּים. לָכֵן בַּעַל הָרַחֲמִים יַסְתִּירֵם בְּסֵתֶר כְּנָפָיו לְעוֹלָמִים, וְיִצְרוֹר בִּצְרוֹר הַחַיִּים אֶת נִשְׁמוֹתֵיהֶם, ה' הוּא נַחֲלָתָם, בְּגַן עֵדֶן תְּהֵא מְנוּחָתָם, וְיַעֶמְדוּ לְגוֹרָלָם לְקֵץ הַיָּמִין, וְנֹאמַר אָמֵן

Baruch Dayan Ha'Emet: Rav Maaleh Galinsky z"l

It is with profound sadness that we inform of the passing of Rav Maaleh Galinsky z"l, Dean Emeritus of Yeshivat Sha'alvim.

Rav Galinsky was involved in almost every aspect of Sha'alvim's tremendous success for the last four decades. He was responsible for the day-to-day operations and the long-term vision of the yeshiva when Rav Yaakovson, Rav Goldsmith, Rav Felberman, Rav Turetsky, and all the other SFW Rebbaim learned there.

We at Sha'alvim for Women have another reason for hakarat hatov to Rav Galinsky: he was instrumental and tireless in his work in the founding of SFW. שלי ושלכם שלו הוא.

בלע המות לנצח ומחה ה אלוקים דמעה מעל כל פנים

The following is the obituary of Rav Galinsky z"l written in Matzav.com

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rav Mallen Galinsky zt”l, the charismatic and magnetic longtime dean at Yeshivas Sha’alvim. He was 77 years old.

A musmach of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yaakov Yosef (RJJ) on New York’s East Side, which he graduated in 1954, Rav Galinsky later attended Brooklyn College, received his Masters Degree in Jewish Education at Yeshiva University and did doctoral work at YU’s Bernard Revel Graduate School.

Rav Galinsky was a son of Rav Yehuda Dov Galinsky zt”l, who arrived in the United States as a six-year-old from the city of Astryn, near Grodna. Rav Yehuda Dov attended Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yaakov Yosef, subsequently learning with Rav Simcha Soloveitchik (brother of Rav Chaim Soloveithik of Brisk), was rov at Cong. Anshei Toras Chessed Vezichru Toras Moshe in Manhattan, and delivered lectures at the Young Israel of Manhattan. In 1931, Rav Yehuda Dov married his wife, Leah, a daughter of Rav Ephraim Zalman Halpern, formerly chief rabbi of Denver, Colorado, and became therov of Colchester, Connecticut, where he served until 1944. In 1945, Rav Yehuda Dov was appointed as the rov of Coney Island’s Congregation Sharei Zedek-Sea Gate Sisterhood and Talmud Torah, and immediately established its Yeshiva Sharei Zedek. He was a well-known orator and radio personality on WEVD, and was instrumental in changing the religious landscape of Coney Island by raising a generation of G-d-fearing Jews. Rav Yehuda Dov passed away on 10 Shevat, 5716 (January 1956).

With the sudden petirah of his father, Rav Galinsky was called to his position as rov of Coney Island’s Congregation Sharei Zedek- Sea Gate Sisterhood and Talmud Torah and as dean of its affiliated Yeshiva Sharei Zedek.

In 1969, Rav Galinsky was asked to serve as National Associate Director of the World Zionist Organization’s Department for Torah Education and Culture American Section. He accepted the offer with the objective of increasing Israel awareness amongst American yeshiva students and heightening and extending the formal limud haTorah of American high school graduates by creating a Torah study program in Eretz Yisroel for young men and women. He stood at the cradle of what is today an exceptional and impressive phenomenon which has a lasting impact on the students and has had a profound influence upon numerous American Orthodox Jews.

Rav Galinsky, together with his brother, for many years filled the role formerly occupied by his father on WEVD radio. With his beautiful, flowery Yiddish and enchanting personality, he shared divrei Torah and hashkafah messages that profoundly impacted an untold number of Jews from across the religious - and even non-religious - spectrum. People often remarked how similar he sounded to his illustrious father.

In 1976, Rav Galinsky moved to Eretz Yisroel, answering the call to join Yeshivas Sha’alvim as dean of the yeshiva’s Institute for Overseas Students. He directed a program which became synonymous with excellence in Torah education. The rabbonim, talmidim, alumni and friends of the yeshiva often expressed their tremendous debt of hakoras hatov to Rav Galinsky for his decades of mesirus nefesh on behalf of the yeshiva and its harbotzas haTorah. Yeshivas Sha’alvim has a program for students from the United States and other countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Belgium, Hungary, South Africa and Australia.

Rav Galinsky’s levaya was held on Erev Shabbos.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sonia Galinsky; his brother, Rabbi Moshe Galinsky; his sister, Mrs. Tova Klahr; and his children, R’ Yehuda Galinsky, R’ Efraim Galinsky, R’ Shimon Galinsky, R’ Eliezer Galinsky, Mrs. Sheindy Gold, Mrs. Devora Rosenbaum, and Mrs. Chana Gelfand.

S.E.M. Torah - Parshat Shmini

Please click here to listen to S.E.M. Torah for this week.


For more S.E.M. Torah, please click here. 

S.E.M. Torah is a series of brief divrei Torah delivered by various members of the faculty of Sha’alvim for Women. S.E.M. stands (good-humoredly) for "Squeezing Every Minute" and represents an important philosophy at SFW: every minute counts and every minute can be used productively. Torah must be learned deeply and profoundly on the highest levels possible. However, even when you find that you have only a few moments, we believe that opportunities - like listening to this S.E.M. Torah - are always available…. if you know where to look!

Scenes from SFW: Nissan Tiyulim!

UPDATED with new pictures!

For the latest "Scenes from SFW", especially for some of SFW's Nissan Tiyulim, please click here! 

For more.... click here!

Shiur on Parshat Shmini

Please click here to listen to a shiur (in Hebrew) on the Parsha from the Rosh HaYeshiva, HaRav Yechezkel Yaakovson, shlit”a.

For other shiurim at Sha’alvim, please click here.