Feb 16, 2026

Quote of the Day

The entire issue of the Rabbanut belongs to the men, and it is not a disgrace against women - it is honorable for women, each person with his flag...better that the Rabbanut should be dismantled than changing tradition and allowing women to be tested by the Rabbanut. Even if it will cause there to be np more rabbis, no more beis din, no more Rabbanut at all in Israel - so we will created a private Rabbinate, every comunity will appoint its own rabbi, as was done in the Diaspora throughout the generations...

  -- Former Chief Rabbi Rav Shlomo Amar, regarding the idea of opening the Rabbanut tests to women

There are many people out there who think this would be a great idea and improvement....


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Halacha Headlines: 2/14/26 – Shiur 548 – Semicha for Women? (audio)








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In the Playroom, with Eli Lebowicz (video)








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Ancient Rock-Cut Tombs of Jerusalem | Hidden Places Tourists Never See (2026) (video)








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Zevi - Serenity (Official Music Video)







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Feb 15, 2026

Mixed but Not Mixed Swimming

Israeli innovation has hit the swimming pool market..

A municipal swimming pool just recently opened in Efrat. The designers worked hard to figure out a way to balance the desire for family swimming while also allowing for religious sensitivities against mixed swimming to be adhered to...

While most pools in such mixed communities will designate hours for mixed swimming and hours for separate swimming, in Efrat they decided to innovate and they came up with the creation of a built in mechitza that has be raised from the bottom of the pool and lowered back down when no longer needed. With the pool being 8 swimming lanes wide, the mechitza down the middle will leave four lanes for men and four for women when the wall is up.

It seems to me to be a lot of innovation for one benefit - lowering the wall for the hours of family swim makes it like any other pool with no mechitza that has hours for family swim. Raising the wall means women and men can swim at the same time but separately rather than having to schedule men at a certain time of day and women at a different time of day. I guess the same could have been accomplished by building two pools. I wonder which would have been cheaper, though the idea of a wall in the pool that goes up and down is cool.

JPost has a picture of it, though the picture just looks like a swimming pool with a wall. they should have taken a picture where you can see both sides of the pool with the wall in the middle...








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The handful of rioters who desecrate the name of God must be condemned with all force. The Torah of Israel is the path of pleasantness and all its paths are peace. Their behavior has no place among us, they must be denounced and expelled from the camp. 

  -- Rav Yitzchak Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel


of all the condemnations of the riots happening right now in Bnei Braq in which soldiers were attacked and property destroyed, I chose the one above from Rav Yosef because a few months ago Rav Yosef said in his shiur a statement directed to yeshiva bochurim that they should not be afraid of Military Police coming to arrest them but instead should rise up against them.. (as far as I know the soldiers who were in Bnei Braq were not military police, but I might be wrong...)




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Feb 10, 2026

Lessons from a Lifetime of Paying Attention | Rebbetzin Shoshana Schachter | Behind the Bima #189 (video)








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Jerusalem, February 1st. A walk on a very warm day from the city center to Jaffa Gate. (video)








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Ahron Razel: one more tune (video)







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Feb 9, 2026

Halacha Headlines: 2/7/26 – Shiur 547 – Mental Health Challenges of Boys in Yeshiva & Girls in Seminaries (audio)








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I Lived 72 Hours With Hasidic Jews... It Was Not What I Expected (video)








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Mystical Israel - Safed 2026 | From Twilight to Night – Enchanting Streets & City Lights. (video)








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Feb 5, 2026

The Truth About The Temple Mount and Beit Hamikdash (video)








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I Performed MAGIC for KYLE TUCKER! (video)








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