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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

Baltimore, MD

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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Chabad is opening its first outreach center in East Africa. The Chabad-Lubavitch of Kenya will open in Nairobi as of the High Holidays this year, the Hasidic outreach movement announced this week. Continue Reading 

Outreach2Stowe Jewish Community Rises Like Mountains
An Article from The Boston Globe

Rabbi David B. Fainsilber is clucking like a chicken. Kids are cracking up, adults can't help smiling. Continue Reading 
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Jewish Communal Fund (JCF), the largest and most active Jewish donor advised fund in the country, approved grants totaling $737,400 to local Jewish charities in the New York area through its endowment, the JCF Special Gifts Fund. Continue Reading

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The American government's behavior has enhanced Iran's inflammatory rhetoric and nefarious activity, former US senator Joseph Lieberman told The Algemeiner on Wednesday.
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Kissinger2Jewish Groups Walk Tightrope on Racial Tensions
An Article from The Jewish Week

As President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush sought to calm a jittery nation from Dallas this week in the wake of the killing of five police officers there, Jewish groups are walking a wind-blown tightrope as they respond to a national crisis that is putting the black community and law enforcement on a collision course.Continue Reading 
  
Namart4GOP New Yorkers Urged to Get out the Vote for Trump
An Article from The Jewish Week

New York delegates attending the Republican National Convention here were challenged to get out the vote in November for Donald Trump, their party's presumptive nominee, to offset the overwhelming vote Hillary Clinton is expected to amass in the five boroughs. Continue Reading 

Namart5Rabbi Lookstein Withdraws RNC Appearance
An Article from The Jewish Week

After a firestorm of criticism from former students, congregants and others, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein told The Jewish Week on Friday he decided not to give the opening invocation on Monday afternoon at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Continue Reading

Namart6Fear, Loathing and the Shortest Donald Trump Speech Ever
An Article from JTA

It was the biggest surprise of the convention so far: The calmest and shortest speech came from Donald Trump. Continue Reading

Is Jared Kushner the Court Jew of Donald Trump's Realm?
An Article from The Forward

The Leader has everything: money, land, power. There's just one thing missing, the support of the Godly. Continue Reading

Namart9Black Jews Stand with Black Lives Matter Amid Turmoil, But G-d Comes First
An Article from The Forward

In recent weeks, America's racial wounds have been torn open, an uneasy rhythm of violence playing out in the streets and on social media:
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Defying Obama, House Votes to Bar Heavy Water Purchases From Iran
An Article from Reuters

The House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday to block the purchase of "heavy water" from Iran, defying President Barack Obama's veto threat a year after the announcement of the landmark Iran nuclear agreement. Continue Reading

Namart10Obama: Iran Deal 'Succeeded'
An Article from The Jerusalem Post

The nuclear deal reached last year between world powers and Tehran has "succeeded in rolling back Iran's nuclear program," US President Barack Obama said on Thursday morning. Continue Reading

Congress Releases Secret '28 Pages' on Alleged Saudi 9/11 Ties
An Article from CNN

A long-classified U.S. report released Friday found that some of the 9/11 hijackers were in contact with and received support from individuals likely connected to the Saudi government. Continue Reading

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Israel1Kotel Deal Headed for High Court?
An Article from The Jewish Week 
 
Frustrated over Israel's stalled implementation of a compromise to establish a pluralistic prayer plaza at the Western Wall, an alliance of Israeli and North American liberal Jewish groups are vowing to escalate pressure on the ground at the Jerusalem holy site and in the Israeli courts. Continue Reading 

Israel2Israeli Lawmakers Fume over Obama Administration 'Intervention' to Defeat Netanyahu
An Article from Breitbart

The Senate on Wednesday found that the State Department provided more than $300,000 in funds to the nonprofit OneVoice "to support peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine over a 14-month grant period ending in November 2014." Continue Reading

Israel3Lone Soldier From New Jersey, One of 2 Soldiers Killed in Grenade Incident in Israel
An Article from The Jewish Week

Two Israeli soldiers, including a lone soldier from New Jersey, were killed Sunday morning when a grenade one was carrying exploded.
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Israel4A GOP Divided Seeks Unity on Israel
An Article from The Times of Israel

Few moments in recent times have elicited more anticipation in the American political world than this year's Republican National Convention, and just hours into the confab's first session of proceedings, it lived up to the expectations it would feature conflict and chaos. Continue Reading

 Former Palestinian PM Draws Fire at Home for New Reconciliation Plan
An Article from The Times of Israel

A confrontation has developed between the former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority Salam Fayyad and the PA's President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Intl1My Experience During the Coup Attempt in Turkey
An Article from The Times of Israel

I am neither a skilled blogger nor a good writer so I'll write this as I experienced it Friday night. Continue Reading

Internatioanl2Jedwabne Mayor Calls for Exhumation of Jewish Mass Grave 
An Article from JTA

The mayor of a Polish town where locals killed and buried hundreds of Jews added his voice to a growing chorus of officials seeking to exhume the bodies from a mass grave to see if German soldiers were the killers.  
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International3Argentine Jewish Leaders Call on Government to Make AMIA Bombing a National Priority
An Article from JTA

Argentine Jewish leaders called on the country's government to make the investigation of the AMIA Jewish center bombing a "national priority" at a ceremony commemorating the attack that killed 85 and injured hundreds.
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International3What EU Wants Israel Not to Know
An Article from Evelyn Gordon

In the three days since Israel passed a law mandating new reporting requirements for NGOs that are primarily funded by foreign governments, there's one question I have yet to hear any of its critics answer.
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International4Europe's Losing Battle
An Article from Israel Hayom

Last week's murderous terror attack in Nice did not come as a huge surprise. After all, the writing has been on every wall in Europe for ages.
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International6As London Prices Climb, Manchester Beckons Jews From Near and Far
An Article from JTA

When Yitzchak Horwitz's family opened one of the first Jewish businesses in this leafy suburb of Manchester - a bookstore that also sold Judaica items - it served a small Jewish community that had only recently moved there from the downtown area. Continue Reading

Intl7NY Times: Iran Sticking to Nuke Deal
An Article from The New York Times

A year after President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, the worst predictions of what would happen next have not come to pass. Continue Reading
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An Article from JTA 
 
The rector of a Brazilian federal university apologized to the Jewish community over a public notice seeking to hire a "racial-ethnic relations" educator required to teach Zionism as a racist concept alongside Nazism and apartheid. Continue Reading 
 
as2Former Canada Green Party Candidate Accused of Hate Speech for Denying Holocaust
An Article from JTA

Human rights complaints have been filed against a former candidate for Canada's Green Party after she posted online videos in which she denied the Holocaust occurred. Continue Reading

as4Boast About Anti-Sharia Laws Fall Flat at Panel on Antisemitism
An Article from JTA

Judson Hill, a Georgia state senator, appearing on a panel on anti-Semitism coinciding with the Republican National Convention, was laying out his bona fides on combating the phenomenon. Continue Reading
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The Pokémon craze is back - and you can apparently "catch 'em all" at your local former concentration camp. 
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hat does it take to get high-quality, tasty, affordable kosher food in Washington, DC? Continue Reading

interest2Matchmaker, Matchmaker! Match My Torah
An Article from Tablet

According to Bill Rubenstein, co-president of the 149-year-old Reform temple Anshe Emeth in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the congregation at first couldn't find a deconsecration service for a Torah. Continue Reading

Interest3 7 Secrets of Researching and Writing Books and Essays
An Article from Ner Le'Elef

One of the most important components of Jewish life is expanding one's knowledge through education. Continue Reading
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