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RABBINIC AUTHORITIES
HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky
HaRav Yaakov Perlow
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Rabbi Ilan Feldman
Atlanta, GA
Rabbi Yaacov Haber
Jerusalem, Israel
Mr. Richard Horowitz
Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Yehoshua Karsh
Northbrook, IL
Dr. David Lieberman
Lakewood, NJ
Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun
National Director
Rabbi Shlomo Porter
Baltimore, MD
Mr. Jeff Schachter Esq.
Passaic, NJ
Mr. Frank Storch
Baltimore, MD
HaRav Michel Twerski
Milwaukee, WI
Mr. Jerry Wolasky
Baltimore, MD
ADVISORY BOARD
Mr. Mark Bane
Lawrence, NY
Mr. Jonathan Beren
Denver, CO
Dr. Robert Edelman
Baltimore, MD
Rabbi Avraham Edelstein
Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Michael J Elman
Baltimore, MD
Rabbi David Felsenthal
New York, NY
Mr. Howard Tzvi Friedman
Mr. Joseph Friedman
Olney, MD
Mr. Harvey Hecker
Toronto, ONT
Mr. Stephen Rosedale
Cincinnati, OH
Rabbi Simcha Scholar
Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Dovid Refson
Jerusalem, Israel
Mr Gary Torgow
Detroit, MI
Rabbi Abraham Twerski, MD
Teaneck, NJ
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|  Shoshie Stern a'h, Daughter of Rabbi Mike Stern in Killed in Tragic Accident
Shoshie was hit by a car as she was trying to cross a road on her skateboard in her hometown of Boca Raton, FL on Sunday April 14. She was loved by all and her father cried emotionally at her funeral, "How can we have a shabbos and yontif table without her? How can I not bless her?"
Following the hespedim, many traveled to Bais Yaakov in Miami where the whole school came out to accompany Shoshie, with students clinging to each other and teachers weeping. Things have not been easy for the Sterns the past couple of years, and people are asked to donate to a fund to help the family through this most difficult time.
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 Toward a More Teen Centered Jewish Future
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy
The Jim Joseph Foundation report "Effective Strategies for Educating and Engaging Jewish Teens" sounds the alarm that Jewish communities are failing our teens and suggests new ways to engage them locally. Continue Reading
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 Brooklyn is the Second Most Expensive Place to Live in US
An Article from New York Observer
Guess what! All that gentrifying has finally paid off. Brooklyn is now the second most expensive place to live in America.
An Article from The Jewish Week
An Article from The Jewish Week Hayrunnisa Kalac, a teenager from northern New Jersey who attends high school in southern Brooklyn, stepped into a taxi outside of Port Authority Bus Terminal Sunday morning and told the driver her destination: the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Battery Park City. Continue ReadingJewish Students Were Unjustly Evicted from Brooklyn College BDS Event An Article from The Algemeiner After a two month investigation into the circumstances surrounding the expulsion of four Jewish students from a BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) event aimed at Israel at Brooklyn College in February, a report has been issued that states that a "plausible inference can be drawn that the removal of the four students was motivated by their political viewpoint." Continue Reading An Article from The Washington Free Beacon
The Defense Department came under fire Thursday for a U.S. Army Reserve presentation that classified Catholics and Evangelical Protestants as "extremist" religious groups alongside al Qaeda and the Ku Klux Klan. Continue Reading |
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 Haredi Reflections on Israel's Independence Day
An Article from The Huffington Post
The Brisker Rov once said that the secular Zionists stole the love of Israel away from Haredi Jews.
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Rav Soloveitchik on Hallel on Yom Ha'atzmaut
On Yom HaAtzmaut,1978, hallel was said during shacharis in the Morgenstern dormitory. That day, prior to beginning his daily
shiur, the Rav had a discussion with his talmidim in which he
addressed his objections to hallel as it was said that day.
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Real Battle Over Western Wall Is Just Beginning in Israel
An Article from The Forward
American Jews and others pushing for religious pluralism at Judaism's most accessible sacred space may have won a major advance for their cause with the new compromise proposal put forth by Natan Sharansky.
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Why are the Israelis so Happy?
An Article from The Daily Beast
By now everyone in Israel has read the results of the study published earlier this month that showed Israelis ranked among the happiest people among the Western nations, despite an extensive laundry list of problems in their country. Continue Reading
Netanyahu on Memorial Day: Stone Attacks Also Terror
An Article from Ynet News
"The stone terror from the West had been added to the terror of firebombs, knives, gunfire and missiles, time bombs, car bombs and suicide (bombers)," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during Monday's Remembrance Day ceremony honoring Israeli victims of terror.
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Man in Bag: I Was Following Rabbi's Orders
An Article from Ynet News
The ultra-Orthodox man who was photographed wrapped in a large plastic bag during a flight told Ynet on Sunday that he was "simply following my rabbi's orders." Continue Reading
Breakthrough in War Against Get Refusers
An Article from Ynet News
A new Supreme Court ruling allows rabbinical courts to combine between different laws and jail "get recalcitrants," men refusing to divorce their wives, for more than 10 years, without any time limit. Continue Reading
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 Hungary Priest From Far Right Jobbik Party Plans Anti-Jewish Rally
An Article from The Forward
A far-right Hungarian priest said an "anti-Zionist" demonstration will be held in Budapest on the first day of the World Jewish Congress' General Assembly. Continue Reading
An Article from The Jewish Week
History will remember former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for relentlessly facing down communism and helping to turn back more than three decades of socialist advance in her country.
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Margaret Thatcher: Her Proudest Moment was Saving an Austrian Jew
An Article from Aish.com
When Margaret Thatcher passed away today, the tributes began pouring in from all over the world. Mrs. Thatcher was Britain's first female prime minister, serving for 11 years starting in 1979.
Embattled French Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim Quits Amid Plagiarism Scandal An Article from The Forward Gilles Bernheim, the Chief Rabbi of France, quit his post on Thursday after admitting to plagiarism in two books and to deception about his academic credentials. Continue Reading French Priest Documents Shoah Graves An Article from Ynet News As we come upon another Holocaust Remembrance Day, we often look to the camps - Auschwitz, Treblinka, Dachau - as the main centers of killing. Continue Reading Carmen Weinstein, Who Led the Jews of Cairo, Dies at 82 An Article from The New York Times Carmen Weinstein, the leader of Cairo's small Jewish community and the driving force behind the restoration of Maimonides's yeshiva and other monuments of Egyptian Jewish history, died on Saturday at her home here on the island of Zamalek. Continue Reading
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