Alumni Rabbi Ben Barer is “Building a New Pillar of Jewish Life”
By Hebrew College
Rabbi Ben Barer `18 published an op-ed in the April 29, 2026 issue of at eJewishPhilanthropy about how to recenter beit midrash-style learning in American Jewish life.
Where is the institutional home for those in the non-Orthodox world who want not only to ground their lives but to learn week in and week out in the paradigmatic Jewish spiritual practice of talmud Torah? If there is a synagogue or minyan in every Jewish community, why is there not also a beit midrash?
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