Composed by Pinky Weber and arranged by Moshe Laufer.
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Congregation Zichron Eliezer (CZE) of Cincinnati, named after Rav Leizer Silver zt”l and led by Rabbi Avrohom Weinrib, recently installed a new assistant rov. Rabbi Yisroel Kaufman, formerly a member of the Cincinnati Kollel, has assumed this position in the city’s growing shul. Rabbi Kaufman has been in the community for several years and has become a popular figure for his insightful shiurim and his broad knowledge in Torah and halacha.
A hachtarah was held over the weekend of Shabbos Parshas Behar-Bechukosai. Rabbi Avrohom Dov Owsianka, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Monroe and rebbi of Rabbi Kaufman, joined the shul for the weekend. Rabbi Kaufman, Rabbi Weinrib and Rabbi Owsianka delivered shiurim throughout the weekend.
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Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland will hold its 75th annual dinner on Monday, 11 Sivan/June 5, at the Young Israel of Greater Cleveland. The yeshiva will present a Harbotzas Hatorah Award to Rav Yankel Cohen, who has served as a R”M/mashgiach at the yeshiva for decades. The Distinguished Parent Award will be presented to Rabbi and Mrs. Hillel Drazin. Rabbi Drazin is an elementary school rebbi and director of Pirchei in Cleveland.
The yeshiva will pay tribute to the graduating class of 1966, celebrating a yovel of service to Klal Yisroel. There will also be a tribute to the Telshe Alumni Bais Medrash in Boro Park and its rov, Rav Yaakov Horowitz, rosh yeshivaof Yeshiva Bais Meir. There will also be a farewell to Rabbi and Mrs. Yitzchok Scheinerman, veteran mechanchim in Cleveland and residents of Bishop Road in Wickliffe for more than 50 years.
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On Wednesday evening, 13 Sivan/June 7, the Los Angeles community will join the Los Angeles Cheder in celebrating its 24th annual dinner at its beautiful hall.
It was an auspicious day in Elul 5748, September 1988, when 30 young boys gathered on La Brea Avenue for the first day of cheder. The frum Los Angeles community was largely founded by Holocaust survivors who built many local mosdos with great mesirus nefesh. Finally, the community was prepared for the pinnacle of its achievements with the inauguration of a cheder, connecting the world of the European chadorim with the needs of a new generation.
Today, the cheder encompasses the Gan-Udel pre-school, the Bais Tzivia Elementary school for girls, the cheder for boys, and the mesivta for bochurim. Yiddish is the language of choice, reinforcing the timeless link between the young students and their rich mesorah.
The Bais Tzivia girls are renowned for their tznius and refinement. The cheder has raised the standards of chinuch in Los Angeles and drawn many new families to relocate to the city. Now in its 25th year, it continues to produce ehrliche talmidim and talmidos under the leadership of the menahel, Rabbi Simcha Ullman.
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Just released: Authorities On Call At JFK After Jewish Woman passes away on El Al Flight From Israel TLV To NY JFK.
The woman was a member of Flatbush’s Syrian Jewish community and suffered from multiple medical ailments. Misask was called to the scene upon landing to assist in handling the mais.
She was returning home from a family simcha in Israel. It is EL AL flight 07.
Source – VIN news
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As previously reported on Matzav.com, a large asifa to protest the drafting of bnei yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel into the Israeli army is tentatively scheduled to be held on Sunday, 17 Sivan/June 11, at the Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn, NY.
In the meantime, a letter on the stationary of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, was released, signed by the four roshei yeshiva of the yeshiva, stating that everyone should attend the event. However, those associated with the roshei yeshiva state that the letter is fake.
Shmuel Lemberger, a gabbai of Rav Aryeh Malkiel Kotler, rosh yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha, released the following statement:
“ברוב פחד ואימה על בזיון כבוד התורה ראשיה ולומדיה. I would like to be מודיע that the Lakewood roshei yeshiva never signed any letter about the kinnus that is being held in the Barclays Center this coming Sunday. Any letter that is being distributed in their name is a total forgery and false. Shmuel Lemberger גבאי של הרה”ג הרב מלכיאל קוטלר שליט”א.”
As previously reported on Matzav.com, the event in question had first been slated to be held on Sunday, 3 Sivan/May 28, at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, but was then cancelled, before being rescheduled for this Sunday at the Barclays, the $4.9 billion home of the Brooklyn Nets seats 18,103 people.
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Since 2014, Kolel Torah has caused a rebirth of Torah learning and transformed countless Jewish lives across 26 countries in the Former Soviet Union and Europe.
In its inaugural year, Kollel Torah was comprised of just twenty five locations. Now, in its third year, the organization has grown to more than 100 centers for Torah learning.
Gathering in these cities, 3000 men meet daily for the study of Talmud, Jewish law, and Chasidic texts, while 1500 women in more than 60 select cities convene weekly for intensive learning. As in the traditional kollel system, each participant receives a stipend and is expected to pass a test to ensure comprehension.
“We know that Chabad representatives are doing great things in their cities, holiday programming, schools for children, Shabbat meals, but organized learning was a challenge,” explains Rabbi Bentzi Lipsker of Petersburg, Russia.
He joined forces with Rabbi Moshe Weber, his colleague in Dnepetrovsk, Ukraine, to design this systematic study system geared for adults.
A team of rabbis in Berdichev prepares the texts, in Hebrew and Russian, so that each kollel can follow the same curriculum. The 18th volume was delivered last week.
“We saw a real desire for learning in an authentic way, but until now, there was no framework,” Weber explains. We created Kollel Torah because we believe strongly that every person should have the choice, and the chance, to study Torah.
For nine years, Rabbi Yechiel Levitansky struggled to get a minyan for Shabbat and holidays, never mind daily prayers. He would spend hours on the phone inviting people to come to Shabbat meals or holiday programs.
When he heard about Kollel Torah, he was eager to sign up, but concerned that he wouldn’t find the requisite 10 men needed to register. A month in, there were 12 regulars. These days, 20 men gather at 7:15 each morning for prayers and study.
The men, between the ages of 21 and 65, come before work or university.
“It looks like any shul in the world,” Levitansky says proudly. Over coffee and cake, “everyone has a chance to read the text and ask questions and we explain and discuss the various topics. Last year, when we learned the laws of Shabbat, it was completely novel. They couldn’t get enough of it.”
“Kollel Torah has literally transformed my people, my city, and me,” says Levitansky. “These men didn’t know each other before, but we are now a real club.” People flock to his events and for the last 18 months, there has been a minyan every Shabbat and Jewish holiday. The new-found connections run deep. Two men became business partners after meeting at the Kollel and one member, a surgeon, has helped many people with medical matters.
On his father’s tenth yahrzeit, just a few days ago Levitansky was joined by a full minyan from the kolel for shacharis, mincha and ma’ariv, something which would have been nearly unfathomable in the years prior to Kolel Torah.
Today, people flock to his events and for the last 18 months, there has been a minyan every Shabbat and Jewish holiday. The new-found connections run deep. Two men became business partners after meeting at the Kollel and one member, a surgeon, has helped many people with medical matters.
“Kollel Torah has literally transformed my people, my city, and me,” says Levitansky. “These men didn’t know each other before, but we are now a real club.”
Today Kollel Torah is running a joint “Giving Day” with the ambitious goal of raising $3,000,000. To become a partner visit www.charidy.com/kt to donate to all or choose your specific city to support.
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In a profound display of bipartisan unity across the country, all 50 U.S. governors and the Mayor of the District of Columbia have joined an AJC initiative to affirm their rejection of the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement against Israel.
“Governors across our country know very well the enormous value of the U.S.-Israel partnership in every sphere imaginable, and many have been central to nurturing their own state’s beneficial ties to Israel,” said AJC CEO David Harris. “At the same time, our nation’s 50 governors, as well as the District of Columbia mayor, recognize the pernicious goals of the BDS movement, which singles out Israel from among all the nations of the world for relentless and undue criticism, and whose efforts undermine the prospects for advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace.”
The Governors United Against BDS statement (www.ajc.org/governors) declares that “the goals of the BDS movement are antithetical to our values and the values of our respective states, our support for Israel as a vital U.S. ally, important economic partner and champion of freedom.”
Israel is a “pluralistic nation with deep cultural, familial, security, educational, scientific and commercial bonds with our states and with the United States as a whole,” asserts the statement.
The governors reaffirm their commitment to “the principle of two states for two peoples, existing side by side in peace, security and mutual recognition, and achieved through direct, bilateral negotiations.” And they emphasize that the BDS movement “undermines peacemaking by suggesting that economic and political pressure on Israel can replace real negotiation.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R), New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), and Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy (D), are co-chairs of the national, bipartisan Governors United Against BDS initiative. Read more at PR NEWSWIRE.
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Special “Tabletop” Booths Start at $700
The premier B2B expo of the international Jewish business world is merely just over a week away. J-Biz Expo and Business Conference will take place on Thursday, June 15th, at the New Jersey Expo Center. Scores of high level business leaders, business service providers and grassroots entrepreneurs will grace the event – leading to countless new and improved business relationships.
In addition to the main section of booths on the Expo floor, a special section of “tabletop” exhibition space will be available. These spaces are smaller than a full booth – ideal for small businesses and upstarts – but offers invaluable exposure to all Expo attendees. With prices beginning at just $700, this is an incredible opportunity to increase your reach across the broader international business world.
“It’s hard to think of any better investment for a business or professional on a budget who is looking to reach the stars,” says Duvi Honig, Founder and CEO of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, which hosts J-Biz.
Time is running out. For more information about J-Biz Expo and Business Conference, or to reserve exhibition space, visit https://www.jbizexpo.com//.
A public high school in Texas reportedly offered a tenth-grade lesson on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that claimed the 1948 War of Independence was precipitated by the fact that “Jews do not want two states,” the Elder of Zion blog reported.
The line was allegedly included in a Bellaire High School (located in the Houston area) slideshow presentation on “decolonialization,” in a slide titled, “The Solution????”
Einat Wilf, a former member of Knesset and outspoken defender of Zionism, dismissed the claim as “simply false.”
“The Zionist leadership clearly accepted and said yes to the United Nations 1947 partition resolution,” Wilf told The Algemeiner, adding that those at the helm did so “despite all the drawbacks,” which included “receiving only half of what was initially promised by the 1922 Mandate of the League of Nations (the predecessor to the UN), mostly desert, without Jerusalem (that is without the ‘Zion’ in ‘Zionism’) and without Judea (the ‘Jude’ of ‘Judaism’).”
Wilf said Zionist leaders agreed to the plan, because “it did mean that the Jewish people would thus have a sovereign state of their own in their ancient homeland and could liberate and govern themselves.”
In contrast, she said, “the Arabs clearly and openly rejected the plan — there is no fudging the historical record here — arguing that they will not accept any form of a Jewish sovereign presence in the land.”
The surrounding Arab states then launched a war on the newly-established Jewish state, explained Wilf.
According to the Elder of Ziyon report, in another slide — titled “Conflict: Pride and Land” — the claim was made that, “Migration of European Jews to the area begins about 1918, they buy best lands from the Arabs.”
Small waves of European Jews had immigrated to modern-day Israel throughout the 14-19th centuries, with the period under Ottoman rule known as the “Old Yishuv.” Moves motivated by Jewish nationalistic ideals began as early as the mid-to-late 1800s.
The city of Petah Tikva, which today boasts a population of some quarter of a million people, was founded in 1878 and is known as “Em HaMoshavot,” or “Mother of the Moshavot.”
Bellaire High School representatives did not immediately respond to The Algemeiner‘s requests for comment.
(C) 2017 . The Algemeiner Rachel Frommer
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A primary election is being held today in Lakewood, NJ, for seats on the local governing body.
The race for Township Committee will determine which candidates will run in November’s general election.
Two of the five seats on the committee are up for election. Eight candidates are running.
Mayor Ray Coles is seeking reelection on the Democrat side. His running mate is Moshe Raitzik. They are being challenged by lifelong Lakewood resident David Gruman.
On the Republican side, incumbent committeeman Michael D’Elia is running with Michael Berman. They are being challenged by Yosef Travis, Avraham Sharaby and Aaron Hirsch,
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Two hundred years of uninterrupted Torah learning – a moment in a time, yet an eternity. This beautifully moving niggun, with its equally powerful lyrics written especially for Yeshivas Mir’s Bicentennial Anniversary Dinner, somehow manages to describe the indescribable. It recounts the miraculous saga of Yeshivas Mir and its faithful allegiance to Limud haTorah – beginning with its founding in 1817 in an unknown Polish hamlet with a minyan of talmidim – through the different periods until today, when its very name has become synonymous with immersion in learning bli hefsek, regardless of circumstances.
The song takes you on a journey from the Yeshiva’s humble beginnings at the dawn of the age of the great European Yeshivos. The stirring Yiddish chorus, based on Tehillim 119, highlights the secret of the Mir’s survival: unrelenting hasmada in the face of all sorts of adversity. The lyrics vividly describe how the Yeshiva triumphed over world wars, devastation by fire, ideological battle of haskallah, financial disaster, and geographic upheaval. Reverently eternalized are the various great leaders who stood at the Mir’s helm with heroic mesirus nefesh throughout the generations, guiding their talmidim and supporters who share in the continued success of the Mir until this day and beyond, until the arrival of Moshiach.
This superb production was performed live at the historic Dinner by Baruch Levine and Yisroel Werdyger; it was arranged and conducted by Yisroel Lamm. The music was performed by the Aaron Teitelbaum Orchestra & Productions. It is based on an original tune composed by Yom Tov Ehrlich, with brand new lyrics written by Chunna Herskowitz. Listen, enjoy, and be inspired.
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A tragic accident in the city of Haifa claimed the life of a young boy today.
The boy, who was only seven years old, was traveling with his parents when their vehicle hit a tree and subsequently flipped over. Hatzalah rushed to the scene but were unable to rescue the boy.
The parents were taken to the hospital to be treated for moderate injuries.
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem B’toch Shaar Avlei Tziton V’Yerushalayim.
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Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday night to demand the release of Israeli citizen Avera Mengistu from Hamas captivity after his detention exceeded 1,000 days.
The protesters said the Israeli government should be making a greater effort to secure Mengistu’s release from Hamas-ruled Gaza. The Palestinian terror group is believed to have held Mengistu, who is of Jewish-Ethiopian origin, ever since he voluntarily crossed into the coastal territory in September 2014. Hamas has not officially confirmed his detention, but has published content on social media using Mengistu’s image several times.
Mengistu’s relatives, who were in attendance at the Tel Aviv demonstration, have said he suffers from mental health issues.
“I’m broken from the thought that after so many days I don’t know if my son has seen a doctor, received medical treatment or even what his medical condition is,” said Mengistu’s mother, Agranesh. She added, “I’m full of hope that people will see that my son is sick and what happened to me can happen to everyone.”
In May, Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Hamas for its detention of Mengistu.
“No demand can justify disappearing and bartering over the lives of men, particularly those with serious mental health conditions,” said Omar Shakir, HRW’s director for Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Early this morning, Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo reported that the American department store Sears was selling anti-Semitic t-shirts saying “Free Palestine” and “End Israeli Occupation” on its website. This sparked outrage from pro-Israel groups and individuals who found Sears’ decision to sell anti-Semitic propaganda to be distasteful and problematic.
After Kredo published the article, a spokesperson for Sears contacted Free Beacon and said that the t-shirts “were being sold by a third-party seller via the Sears Marketplace” and that the department store was removing the merchandise. However, the spokesperson took umbrage that individuals singled out Sears instead of Amazon, WalMart, and eBay as well as noting that Sears nearly employs 200 individuals in Israel.
Not only is there no “occupation of Palestinian territories,” but also the call to free “Palestine” is deliberately anti-Semitic. According to the “Palestine” Liberation Organization and countless other anti-Israel groups, “Palestine” represents the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea where Israel is currently situated. By that logic, in order to free “Palestine,” Israel must be completely destroyed and the Zionist project of Jewish self-determination and statehood in formerly Islamic lands must fail. Read more at DAILY WIRE.
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