Rabbi Gil Student

INSPIRATION

Tips for Preparing for the High Holidays

Ten meaningful things you can do during the forty days of Elul and the Aseret Yemei Teshuvah to prepare spiritually and emotionally for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

RELIGION

Reviews in Brief – Fall 2025

Jewish Customs: Exploring Common and Uncommon Minhagim; Al HaRishonim Ve’Al Ha’Acharonim; Mastering the Mind: A Guide to Focused Learning and Torah Retention  

JEWISH LAW

Reviews in Brief – Summer 2025 

Rabbi Hershel Schachter’s Collected Writings, I; 1.8 Million Minutes and Counting: Celebrating & Contemplating My First 40 Years in Jewish Broadcasting; Hifkadti Shomrim: The Journal of the Israel Police Rabbinate,…

EDUCATION

Reviews in Brief – Spring 2025

Birkat Yitzchak: He’arot LeMasechet Sanhedrin, fourth edition; Pursuing Peshat: Tanakh Parshanut & Talmud Torah

HISTORY

Reviews in Brief – Winter 2024

Medinah, Halachah VeKavanot HaTorah; Living in the Land: Firsthand accounts from Bnei Torah and their families; Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation

REVIEWS IN BRIEF

Reviews in Brief – Fall 2024

Life after Teshuvah: Five, Ten, and Twenty Years Later; Pesikah KaHalachah (Hebrew)

REVIEWS IN BRIEF

Reviews in Brief – Summer 2024

The Jewish State: From Opposition to Opportunity; HaAretz Asher Areka: Mitzvat Yishuv Eretz Yisrael (Hebrew); Famous Gemaras: The Gemara’s incredible stories come to life

BOOKS

Reviews in Brief – The Halachic Haircutting Handbook

The Halachic Haircutting Handbook: A Breakthrough Exposure of an Obscure Mitzvah (Second Edition) By Rabbi Chaim and Binyamin Jachter Kol Torah, 2023 107 pages Over the past few years, a…