President Obama Designates Agudath Israel Official for Key U.S. Commission

June 7, 2015, 11:04 pm

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President Barack Obama has indicated his intention to appoint Rabbi Abba Cohen to "a key Administration post," according to a recent White House announcement.  The proposed appointment would make Rabbi Cohen a member of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.

The Commission is an independent federal agency, which was established 30 years ago through legislation introduced by the late Brooklyn Representative Stephen Solarz and the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy. Under the law, the Commission is to identify and report on endangered cemeteries, monuments, and historic buildings in Europe - associated with the heritage of U.S. citizens - and to obtain, in cooperation with the Department of State, assurances from the 29 governments of the region that the properties will be protected and preserved. Many Jewish sacred sites have been safeguarded and restored through the Commission's efforts.


Rabbi Cohen, who serves as Agudath Israel of America's Vice President for Federal Affairs and Washington Director, has over the past 25 years worked with top State Department officials, Commission members, Congressional leaders, and foreign representatives in facilitating such projects. He was introduced to this work by the late, revered Agudath Israel leaders Rabbi Moshe Sherer and Rabbi Chaskel Besser, who were trailblazers in making the protection and restoration of Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and other religious and historic sites a Jewish community priority. Highlighting this critical need to Congressional leaders eventually led to the Commission's establishment.

While the Commission is concerned with sites integral to the heritage of all Americans, communal properties that are associated with the history and culture of the Jewish people represent a particularly compelling need.  The extermination of European Jewry by the Nazis was accompanied by the destruction, desecration, and deterioration of Jewish properties.  This persisted under subsequent anti-Semitic Communist regimes, which hindered access to Americans who wanted to ensure preservation of the sites.  Many Jewish properties continue to be endangered, particularly due to the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Agudath Israel of America's Executive Vice President, said, "We at Agudath Israel are so proud of Rabbi Cohen. This is not only a well-deserved honor for him, it is a wonderful development for the vital cause the Commission was established to address. Abba brings to this position experience, intelligence, thoroughness, passion and know-how, and we have every confidence he will be a major asset to the Commission."

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June 8, 2015, 9:04 pm

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3 yesomim living alone lost both Parents to yener Machala R'L

June 9, 2015, 8:16 am

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American Friends of the Ehrlich Family

1070 38th Street Brooklyn NY 11219

Donate NowOn Tuesday, June 2nd the Ehrlich family of Yerushalayim was struck by a terrible tragedy. Sadly, tragedy is no stranger to this family; only a year and a half ago they lost their beloved mother, Mrs. Liba Ehrlich, after a long and painful battle with cancer.

A few short weeks ago their father, Reb Moshe Ehrlich, son of the renowned Yiddish composer and folk singer Reb Yom Tov Ehrlich, was diagnosed with cancer. The terrifying disease was quick and destructive, and within a few weeks, Reb Moshe was gone.

The family of orphans was crushed; especially the three youngest who are still unmarried. Preparations were started to begin the process of the levaya and burial, and that’s where the real trouble started.

The ChevraKadisha [burial society] would not deal with the body of Reb Moshe until the family paid the sum of $25,000. This amount was not only for expenses of Reb Moshe’s burial and plot, but also for fees incurred by the burial of his wife, 1.5 years ago.

We must show our support and come to the rescue of these poor orphans! What was done in the past 24 hours is proof that there are hundreds of caring people with open hearts who will jump in and do their share to ease the pain and burden of a family who suffered tragedy after tragedy. The new goal is now $100,000. This will provide the basic needs of the family for the time being and will hopefully assist in marrying off these children when the time comes.

THIS PROJECT IS ENDORSED BY RABBI SHMUEL DISHON SHLITA, A CLOSE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY.

Checks can be made out & mailed to:
Cong. Bais Aaron
1070 38th Street
Brooklyn NY 11219

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gofundme.com the new Gvir on the block

June 9, 2015, 8:30 am

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Recently thousands of dollars are raised in a quick and short amount of time through the gofundme website. The sudden passing of a breadwinner or other emergency or non emergency tzedakas  now have a way to reach out to the broader population through the internet. No more do we have to rely on the snail mail for an emergency campaign. The emotional appeal with the instant ability to donate has made tzedaka giving easier for fundraisers as they can now target a broad market in just a few hours. With all the dangers and awareness associated with the web it now seems that these campaigns have the endorsement of Rabbonim and Roshei Yeshivos too realizing the important tool that the web could be used for the good.

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June 10, 2015, 8:34 am

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In Elad Israel, A woman from the city of Cholon claimed that a spirit or diybuk entered her body. A minyan of Makubalim gathered at the local shul yabia omer and performed a ceremony that removes the dybuk from the body.

Monsey internet Asifa

June 10, 2015, 8:37 am

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A gathering of thousands of Bochurim will take place tomorrow at the Rockland boulders stadium. The event will discuss the dangers of the internet and technology. It is a follow up to the previous internet Asifa.

Agudath Israel asks to oppose on installing monitor on ERSD

June 10, 2015, 5:34 pm

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Below is the text of a letter sent by Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Executive Vice President of Agudath Israel of America, to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie opposing the proposed bill which would impose a monitor on the East Ramapo School District.

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NYC Health Board Votes to Consider Rescinding MBP Regulation

June 11, 2015, 1:31 am

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 Three months after the de Blasio administration reached an agreement with community representatives that would end the highly controversial regulation of bris Milah enacted by the Bloomberg administration, the New York City’s Board of Health has voted unanimously to consider the mayor’s plan.After a comment period, the board will vote on formally rescinding the regulation that required mohalim to ask parents to sign a consent form espousing the city’s view associating MBP with HSV-1 herpes infections, a position dismissed by leading medical experts and veteran mohalim.
Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Travis Bassett said the regulation had a polarizing effect and is difficult to implement. According to the new plan a new protocol will be implemented, one that will use cutting-edge DNA testing to determine the real source of herpes infection in infants.
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June 11, 2015, 2:04 pm

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Watch Video below - At a hachnosas Sefer Torah took place yesterday in bnei brak as the new sefer was brought to the home of  Rav Chaim kanievsky  It was donated by a wealthy Russian businessman גבריאל גרמן זכרייב.  At the seuda there was a large screen set up on it they showed the historic video  of the Chofetz Chaim which recently surfaced. Rav Chaim watched as it played on the screen .

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June 12, 2015, 8:58 am

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Thousands of bachurim from New York and New Jersey gathered Thursday evening in Rockland Boulders Stadium in Rockland County for an asifah about the perils of technology. Inset: The dais is graced by leading Rebbes and Rabbanim, shlita, including Harav Chaim Shia Halberstam, Rav of Satmar in Monsey; Harav Moshe Green, Rosh Yeshivah, Yeshivah of Monsey; the Vizhnitzer Rebbe; the Skulener Rebbe; the Pupa Rebbe; the Viener Rebbe 

Its Dinner time!

June 13, 2015, 9:30 pm

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Besides for football, baseball or other sporting events, Sundays, host fundraising dinners for Yeshivos and Mosdos. Please come and show your support to the following Yeshivos and Mosdos.
 wondering where? when?   what time is the dinner?  see below.

Sunday June 14, 2015- 27 Sivan 5775

Chush- yeshiva Livnas Hasapir 24th annual breakfast
Sunday  June 14, 2015
 At the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Shlomo Werdiger
 East 23 Street, between Avenues J and K in Flatbush
guest speaker: Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein

Sunday May 17, 2015 - 28 Iyar - 5775

Yeshiva Bais Binyomin Stamford
Ocean Terrace 1200 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, NY
Reception 6 pm Dinner 6:45 pm Bentching 9 pm



Yeshiva Derech Chaim 40th annual Dinner
The Palace brooklyn, NY  May 17 2015
Reception 5:30 pm Dinner 6:30 pm

Yeshiva Bais Moshe Scranton 50th Yovel Dinner
 Aters Avrohom Brooklyn, New York Williamsburg
Reception 5 pm Dinner 6:15 pm

Yeshiva and mesivta Torah Temima  56th annual Dinner
Ateres Chaya hall, Brooklyn, NY  Sunday May 17 2015
Reception 6:00 pm Dinner 7:30 pm

Edison Yeshiva 33rd annual Dinner
Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel 515 US highway 1 South, Iselin NJ 08830
Reception 5:30 pm Dinner 6:30 pm
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Monday May 18, 2015 29 Iyar 5775

Yeshivas Novominsk 31st annual Dinner
Ateres Chaya, Brooklyn, NY

Yeshiva Ateres Shmuel of waterburry Annual Dinner
Terrace on the park, Corona , NY

yeshiva Ohavei Torah Riverdale annual Dinner

Yeshiva Bais Mikra Monsey annual Dinner
Ateres Charna, New Square

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Sunday May 10, 2015 - 21 Iyar - 5775


Agudath Israel of America 93rd annual Dinner
 New York Hilton 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10019,
 7:30 pm -NJ senator Cory Booker guest speaker

Yeshivas Ohr haTorah Lakewood, Chanukas Habayis Dinner
Neemas Hachaim Hall Oak Street Lakewood, NJ -May 10, 2015
Reception 7:00pm Dinner 8:00 pm
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Yeshiva and Mesivta of brooklyn  107th Anniversary Dinner 
Tuesday May 12, 2015 
Ateres Chynka 129 Elmwood avenue Brooklyn, NY

Mesivta Ahavas Torah- Monsey- Inaugural Dinner
May 12, 2015 Vilchovitz Hall 230 Maple Avenue, Monsey, NY 7:30 pm
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Yeshiva of Spring Valley  72nd annual Dinner -May 13 2015
Doubletree hotel 455 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, NY
Reception 7: pm Dinner 7:45 pm

Yeshiva Mercaz Hatorah Bell harbor 28 anniversary Dinner
May 13, 2015 The palace 780 McDonald Avenue Brooklyn, NY

Mosdos Veretzky 30th annual Dinner May 13, 2015
Marine park Golf course 2880 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Sunday May 3, 2015 - 14 Iyar - 5775

Yeshiva  Gedolah Bais Yisroel 32nd annual Dinner
Dyker Beach 1020 886th street, Brooklyn, NY
Reception 6:15 pm Dinner 7:30 pm




Sunday March 15, 2015 - 24 Adar - 5775

 Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim Annual Dinner
New York Brooklyn Marriott
Reception 4:30 pm - Dinner 6:00pm

Yeshiva Zichron Meir of Mountaindale 53 annual Dinner

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Sunday March 1, 2015 - 10 Adar - 5775

Ohr Somayach international 43rd Annual Dinner
Bell Works, 101 Crawford corner road, Holmdel, NJ 07733
Reception 6:00 pm -

Bensalem Jewish outreach center 14th annual Dinner
Young Israel of Avenue K 2818 Avenue K Brooklyn, NY 11210

Reception: 5:30 pm      Dinner: 6:30 pm

Sunday February 22, 2015 - 3 Adar - 5775

Talmudical yeshiva of Philadelphia 40th annual Dinner- Philly Dinner
Hilton Garden Inn 1100 South Avenue at Lois Lane, Staten Island, NY

reception 5:30 pm

Springfield Yeshiva Gedolah Tiferes Boruch annual Dinner
Doubletree Hilton Hotel Newark Airport 128 Frontage rd





Sunday February 8, 2015 - 19 Shevat - 5775

Adelphia Yeshiva Talmudical academy 44th annual Dinner
Woodlake country club, 25 New Hampshire avenue Lakewood, NJ
reception 6:00 pm Dinner 7:00 pm

Mesivta of Long Beach Yovel anniversary 50th Annual historic Dinner
Bell Works, 101 Crawford corner road, Holmdel, NJ 07733
Reception 6:00 pm - Bus from Lakewood 516-255-4704

Yeshiva Telshe Alumni Riverdale 34th Annual Dinner
Doubletree Hotel, 455 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY
Reception 6:00 pm Dinner 7:00 pm

Yeshiva Ohel Torah 28th Annual Dinner

Camp SCHI 20th annual Dinner 
Lake terrace hall  1690 Oak Street, Lakewood, NJ

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Sunday December 14, 2014 - 22 Kislev- 5775

Mir Yeshiva Brooklyn Building completion Dinner
The palace Ballroom 780 Mcdonald Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Reception 5:30 Dinner 6:30 pm- email Mirreryeshiva@thejnet.com


Agra Dpirka inaugural Dinner
Tiferes Mordechai hall 600 Mcdonald Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Yeshiva and Mesivta of Baltimore Gala of Gratitude Dinner -Seudas Hoda'ah to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Rav Zvi Dov Slanger's liberation from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp
Beth Tfiloh Hall  3300 Old Court Road Baltimore, MD 21208
Reception 5:00 pm


Yeshiva Gedola of South Monsey 21st Annual Dinner- Rabbi Lieff 
Valley Terrace 121 College Road Suffern, NY

Mesivta Zichron Boruch of Clifton Annual Dinner


Sunday December 7, 2014 - 15 Kislev- 5775

Yeshiva Toras Moshe yerushalayim 32nd Anniversary tribute Dinner
Dedicated לעילוי נשמת Rabbi Moshe Twersky HY'D
Ateres Avrohom hall in Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
Reception 5:30  Zikaron for Rabbi Moshe Twersky 6:00 pm Dinner 7:00pm
Email: americanfriends@torasmoshe.org

Yeshiva Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin annual Dinner
Brooklyn Marriott 

Telshe yeshiva Chicago 54th anniversary tribute Dinner
50th Yartzheit memorial tribute to the Rosh yeshiva Harav Mottel katz Zatzal
Hyatt Regency Chicago

Yeshiva Mercaz hatorah, Belle Harbor Flatbush reception
At the  Wachasman home 1182 East 28th street, Brooklyn, NY 8:00 pm
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Sunday June 15, 2014 - 17 Sivan- 5774

Yeshiva Livnas Hasapir/ Chush annual Breakfast
 At the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Shlomo Werdiger
 East 23 Street, between Avenues J and K in Flatbush 9:30 AM June 15, 2014



Yeshiva Bais Mikroh- Monsey Groundbreaking event
221 Viola rd, Monsey, NY 2:30 -4:00 pm

Kollel Zichron Shmuel -Mirrer yeshiva -Parlor reception
Schindler residence 314 Avenue N, Brooklyn, NY 7:00pm
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Monday June 16, 2014 18 Sivan 5774

Mayan Yisroel 6th annual Dinner
Canal Jean Building, 2236 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Reception 6:00 pm  Dinner 7:00 pm

Ohr Naava Lakewood Parlor meeting
Novoseller home 567  8th Street, Lakewood , NJ  7:30 pm
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Tuesday June 17, 2014 19 Sivan 5774
Gatshead Yeshiva- Bais Yosef --New York Reception honoring R''Y Rav Avrohom Gurwicz
Spinka Hall 1466 56th street, Brooklyn, NY 11219  8:30 pm

Yeshiva gevuras Yitzchok -Kesher Desert reception
1461 East 17th street, Brooklyn, NY 8:30 pm
Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky Guest speaker
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Wednesday June 18, 2014 -20 Sivan 5774
Yeshiva Derech Hatalmud anniversary Dinner
Masores Bais Yaakov hall 1395 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (corner Avenue I)
Reception 7:15 pm  Dinner 8:00 pm
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Sunday June 8, 2014 - 10 Sivan- 5774

Pirchei Agudas Yisroel of America 51st Siyum Hamishnayos
The Palace 780 McDonald Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Doors open 6:00pm Program 6:30
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Monday June 9, 2014 11 Sivan   
Mifal Torah Vodaath annual Dinner
Schicks manor, 4901 12th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Reception 6:30 pm Mincha 7:15 pm Dinner 7:30 pm
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Tuesday June 10, 2014-12 Sivan 5774
Beer Hagolah 35th annual Dinner
Terrace on the Park, 52-11 111th street Flushing meadows park, New York , NY

Ohr Somayach Monsey 35th Anniversary Dinner- Tuesday June 10
The Beit Shvidler conference center 244 rt 306 , Monsey, NY
Reception 6:30 pm- Mincha 7:15 pm Dinner 7:30 pm Bentching 9:30 pm
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Sunday June, 1 2014 - 3 Sivan- 5774

Yeshiva Derech Chaim 39th annual Dinner  Sunday June 1st, 2014
The Palace 780 Mcdonald Avenue, Brooklyn
Reception 5:30 Mincha 6:15 Dinner 6:30
remembering Harav Mordechai Rennert zatzal

Lakewood Cheder Bais Faiga School 48th annual Dinner Sunday June, 1st 2014
Lake Terrace hall Lakewood, NJ
Reception 6:15 Dinner 7:15 pm

Yeshiva Ateres Shmuel of Waterbury 14th annual Dinner
Terrace on the Park,  52-11 111th street Flushing meadows park, New York , NY
Reception 5:30 Dinner 6:30 pm

Yeshiva Ruach Chaim Dinner 19th Annual Dinner Sunday June 1, 2014
(Young Israel of Avenue K, 2818 Avenue K Brooklyn, NY 11210 ?)
Reception 6:30 pm Dinner 7:30 pm

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Sunday May 25, 2014 - 25 Iyar- 5774
Yeshiva Torah Vadaath 95th annual Dinner
The palace 870 McDonald Avenue , Brooklyn, NY
Reception 5:30 Dinner 6:30
Torah Vodaas

Yeshiva Meon Hatorah Roosevelt 9th annual Dinner
Doubletree hotel, Fort Lee, NJ

Monday May 26, 2014- 26 Iyar 5774
Yesiva Novominsk 30th annual Dinner
Ateres Chaya hall, Brooklyn, NY

Mosdos Veretzky 29th annual Dinner
Marine park Golf course 2880 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 

Edison Yeshiva Dinner
Renaissance woodbridge hotel 515 US highway 1 Iselin NJ
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Tuesday May 27, 2014 27 Iyar 5774
Agudath Israel of America 92nd annual Dinner
Hilton, New York honoring Rubin Schron
Agudah dinner email dinner@agudathisrael.org
7:30 pm
NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio will speak up.

Yeshiva Zichron melech Rav Chaim Epstein 68th annual Dinner
Kings Terrace  815 Kings highway Brooklyn, NY
Reception 6:30 pm Dinner 7:30 pm
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Wednesday May 28, 2014  28 Iyar 5774

Yeshiva of Spring Valley 71 annual Dinner
Doubletree hotel 455 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, NY
Reception 7: pm Dinner 7:45 pm

Bais Yaakov D'Rav Meir, 70th Annual Dinner
Kings Terrace  815 Kings highway Brooklyn, NY

Reception 6:30 pm Dinner 7:30 pm

Yeshiva Sharei Torah-Monsey 37th annual Dinner
Atrium Plaza rt 59- 7:30 pm

Yeshiva Ohavei Torah Riverdale 15th anniversary Dinner
Glenpointe Marriott, 100 Frank W Burr blvd, Teaneck, NJ
Reception 6:30 Dinner 7:30 pm

Yeshiva Gedolah of Monroe, NJ- 12th anniversary Dinner
The Renaissance ballroom 5902 14th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

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Sunday May 4, 2014 - 4 Iyar- 5774

Yeshiva Gedolah Bais Yisroel 31st annual Dinner
Kings terrace 
815 Kings Highway, Brooklyn, NY
Reception 5:00 Dinner 6:30 pm



Sunday March  30, 2014 - 28 Adar 2- 5774

Yeshiva Yagdil Torah of Yerushalayim annual Dinner
Ateres Chaya hall Brooklyn, NY
Reception 5:30 Dinner 6:30  bus from Lakewood leaving at 4:30 pm from 10th and Clifton

Yeshiva Ohr hameir of Peekskill Mir  annual Dinner
Empire Meadowlands hotel, 2 Harmon plaza, Secaucus, NJ 07094
Reception 6:15 pm Dinner 7:15 pm

Yeshiva Gedolah Bais Yisrael 32nd annual Dinner


Sunday March  23, 2014 - 21 Adar 2- 5774

Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim annual Dinner
New York Brooklyn Marriott Hotel
333 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY
Reception 5:00 pm  Dinner 6:30 pm

Yeshiva Ohr Yehuda - Lakewood inagural Dinner

Tiferes Bais Yaakov Hall Reception 6:45 pm Dinner: 7:30 pm

Sunday March  9, 2014 - 7 Adar 2- 5774

Yeshiva Tiferes Boruch, Springfield yeshiva Gedolah-building expansion Dinner
Double tree Hilton Newark airport hotel 128 frontage rd, Newark, NJ 07114
Reception 6:00 pm

Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia annual Dinner- Philly
Hilton Garden inn 1100 South Avenue at Lois Lane Staten Island, NY
reception 5:30 pm

(To accommodate talmidim going to the atzeres in Manhattan,  the yeshiva will have light refreshments upon return from the atzeres. Smart idea to park in Staten Island and take the Ferry to Manhattan and back for the dinner.)

Yeshiva Gedolah of Passaic-  41 Annual Dinner
Hilton Meadowlands, East Rutherford, NJ
https://www.duvys.com/simple/ygop


Sunday February  23, 2014 - 23 Adar 1 5774

Yeshiva and Mesivta of Long Beach annual Dinner
Ateres Avrohom hall, Williamsburg
Reception 6 pm


Sunday February  16, 2014 - 16 Adar 1 5774
Yeshiva Torah Ore -annual Dinner
Ateres Avrohom hall, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Reception 5:00pm  Dinner 6:30 pm

Talmudical academy  Yeshiva of Adelphia 43rd annual Dinner,
Woodlake country club, 25 New Hampshire Ave Lakewood, NJ
Reception 6 pm Dinner 7 pm

Yeshiva gedolah kesser Torah annual Dinner

February  22nd Motzei shabbos
Yeshiva gedolah Moreshes yehoshua -Tribute Dinner- Horav Dovid Trenk
TorasEmes hall,1904 Avenue N , Brooklyn, NY 11230
Dinner 8:30PM





Sunday February  9, 2014 - 9 Adar 1 5774
Yeshiva of Telshe alumnai- Riverdale annual Dinner
Doubletree hotel, 455 South Broadway Tarrytown, NY
reception 6:00 pm Dinner 7:00 pm
Dinneryta@gmail.com


Sunday December 29, 2013-26 Teves 5774
Yeshiva Darchei Torah annual Dinner


Sunday December 22, 2013-19 Teves 5774

Beth Medrah Govoha- Lakewood Yeshiva annual Dinner
Brooklyn Marriott hotel.

Sunday December 15, 2013-12 Teves 5774

Yeshiva gedolah of Detroit Dinner/ Hachnosas sefer Torah
Leaving from Home of Rebbetzin Bakst  1:30 pm 24621 Harding
Dinner 6:45 pm RSVP 248-968-3360

Yeshiva Passaic Torah institute 18th annual Dinner


Sunday November 24, 2013 - 21 Kislev 5774

Rabbinical seminary of America- Yeshiva Chofetz chaim of queens annual Dinner
Terrace on the park, Flushing, NY

Ponovez Yeshiva -Botei Avos 73rd annual Dinner
Ateres Chaya hall 1415 54th street, Brooklyn, NY
reception 6 pm Dinner 7 pm

Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin annual Dinner

Sunday November 17, 2013 - 14 Kislev 5774

Mirrer Yeshiva Brooklyn annual Dinner
The Palace 780 Mcdonald Avenue, Brooklyn
Reception 5:30 shiur 6:00 Dinner 6:30

Mir Yeshiva Yerushalayim-  borough park Dinner for Chasidishe olam 
with RavLazer Yudel Finkel , Live hook up from EY with Rav Asher Arieli
Ateres Golda Chaya Boro park- f


Yeshiva gedolah of South Monsey 20th anniversary Dinner- Rabbi Lieff
Valley Terace 121 college road, Suffern, NY
Reception 5:30 Dinner 6:30

Yeshivas Toras Moshe- yerushalayim 31st Anniversary Dinner
Ateres Avrohom hall Williamsburg, Brooklyn http://torasmoshe.adjournal.com/event.aspx



Sunday November 10th, 2013  - 7 Kislev 5774

Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim/ Yeshiva of Staten Island 107th anniversary Dinner
Sunday November 10th- New York Marriott Brooklyn
reception at 5:00 pm
212-964-2830- MTJ Reservations.


Beth Medrash Govoha Lakewood yeshiva Fall Luncheon- For women
Lipschitz hall  5000 14th Avenue Brooklyn, NY
12:30 pm- 3:30 pm

While Govt is watching, contraband goes over the wall

June 14, 2015, 11:00 pm

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Could it be this is how the prison guards in Dannemora get their lunch delivered?

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June 14, 2015, 11:12 pm

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Must Commercially Cleaned Lettuce Still be Checked? Kosher Agency says Yes

June 15, 2015, 10:20 pm

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KT-The kashrus world is unanimous in requiring lettuce to be checked for insects. Agencies generally accepted the notion that pre-washed (bagged) iceberg lettuce is acceptable from any source, even if it is not certified as kosher.  This is because the method of commercially cleaning leafy lettuces is sufficient to remove the insects typically found in iceberg lettuce.  However, in recent weeks, says the cRc, lettuce coming from specific regions in California have been more heavily infested than usual, and that the cleaning methods in use have not always been successful in removing all insects from the lettuce.  This has caused some kashrus agencies to temporarily remove certification from a number of brands of iceberg lettuce, of which the Fresh Express brand is the most prominent.


A cRc statement noted: “We have not been able to independently confirm these results on a national scale, but accept the findings of these hechsherim based on the research of experienced Mashgichim in multiple cities.  Accordingly, the cRc recommends that for the remainder of June 2015, consumers nationally should either (a) purchase iceberg lettuce which bears reliable kosher certification, or (b) wash and inspect iceberg lettuce (fresh or bagged) as per the directions found at http://kshr.us/IcebergLettuce.

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Five of New York’s most famous Jewish cantors and Chassidic singers will be performing in a free concert at Summerstage in Central Park as part of KulturfestNYC on Tuesday, June 16. The five cantors are like the Three Tenors of Jewish music.
 

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Hamodia - A potentially historic tuition aid bill is achingly close to passing, according to private school advocates.

But the fate of either version of the education tax credit currently before the legislature is unknown, even as lawmakers prepare to leave Albany on Friday as the session winds down for the year.

“Nobody knows,” one activist knowledgeable in the negotiations told Hamodia on Tuesday afternoon. “It’s impossible to know at this point.”

Activists from Agudath Israel of America, which last month termed the bill a “watershed” moment in aiding yeshivah parents with tuition, were up in Albany once again on Tuesday in a last-minute attempt to coax Assembly members to vote it in.



“The issue is still very much on the table,” an Agudah official said. “The governor is holding strong, the Senate is holding strong, it’s just an issue of how the Assembly will go.”

Participants on the mission included Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, the organization’s executive vice president; Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz, vice president for community affairs; Leon Goldenberg and Chaskel Bennett, Agudah trustees; and Shai Markowitz.

The group met with Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, officials in the Cuomo administration and a number of Assembly members.

The effort received a boost Monday when Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams personally appealed to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to help pass the private education bill.

Noting that Brooklyn has 433 private schools serving more than 120,000 students — the most of any county in the nation — Adams in a letter called helping parents with tuition bills “an important goal.”

“The New York state legislature cannot miss this opportunity to help these families educate their children in the way they see fit,” Adams wrote, cc’ing all assemblymen in his letter.

The letter comes a day after Adams pledged in a meeting with leaders of the Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition to get involved in the battle.

As the current legislative session winds down, a record three bills are in the pipeline that would help parents of non-public school students. This is a stunning shift from as recently as two years ago, when powerful teachers’ unions blocked any aid for private schools.

A beefed-up Republican majority in the Senate, along with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s battles with the teachers’ unions on tenure and raising the cap on charter schools, have opened up a rare chance to get the first real assistance for yeshivah parents in decades.

The only bill to have actually passed is one introduced by Sens. Simcha Felder and Martin Golden. The Senate voted earlier this year on a $150 million bill to allow donors to a scholarship fund to deduct 90 percent of the amount from their tax bill. The amount, which increases incrementally to $300 million in three years, is divided evenly between public school and private school expenses.

After a half-hearted lobbying effort for the bill in the budgetary process that ended in March, Cuomo last month proposed his own bill, which would allow only a 75 percent deduction and lowers the overall amount to $50 million.

However, in a move that has electrified tuition-payer advocates, Cuomo added a $70 million component that would give parents $500 a year for every child they pay tuition for, regardless of whether they pay taxes.

The drawback with the bill is that it is capped at $60,000 for a family of four. A third bill, sponsored by Assembly members Sheldon Silver and Rodneyse Bichotte and formally introduced on Friday, raises that cap to $120,000 and applies it to expenses for public school parents as well. It would also give $3,000 per child — with a maximum of $12,000 — rather than the $500 proposed by Cuomo.

Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Cathy Nolan joined the bill as a sponsor. However, Silver’s and Bichotte’s plan does not have the education tax credit deduction, seen by some activists as the real solution to the tuition crunch.

This third bill has not gained traction in the Assembly and is seen as having little chance of passing.

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June 16, 2015, 11:51 pm

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A recent article in Binah magazine this past week had a cover story about couples transitioning from the husband being in kollel to the husband going out to work and the difficulties in this transition.
The article it seems took swipes at the current Kolell sytem instead of factually reporting on the youngeleit who leave the koslei Bais hamedrash for parnassah. The writer points out how the kolell life is great and fun, compared to that of a husband who works full time.

 I was always taught to feel like it's something special to sacrifice for Torah. Well, you leave kollel and you realise that almost EVERYONE has to make sacrifices for life. It is a fact of life that the world is set up for hard work, its the way God made it, but somehow in the kollel mentality you forget that .

One might even start to look with cynicism at the yeshiva families who are so proud of their sacrifices, now that you realise that they actually have it pretty good. ... compared to the life of the person working up from the bottom tier, kollel life is nice .

Of course the objective is that after a few years of clawing our way through college and entry level, we will end up in a more relaxed life, please God. My husband will still be working full time hours with none of the sweet family schedule stuff , but hopefully money will be less tight  

Sorry, but sacrificing for Torah IS special. Torah keeps up the world. Most people today are not in Kolell. Those that are there are sacrificing for hashem. If your husband were a millionaire and a workaholic would you also complain?  Kolell life is not measured by how often your husband was around to help you. Its the Torah that he learned giving everything up just for Hashem.

 

 

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Attendees asked not share pictures of simchas on social media. This was posted at a wedding on June 15, 2015

There is a new trend surfacing at Jewish simchas in which attendees are being asked not to share any photos and videos of the event on social media. OS

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The extreme right-wing organizers of a Saturday protest in a predominantly Jewish London neighborhood plan to burn Israeli flags and even a copy of the Jewish Oral Law, or Talmud, the UK’s Jewish Chronicle reported on Tuesday.
  (Erev Shabbat Chukath,1242- 5004 known as vov Chukas Twenty-four cartloads of Hebrew manuscripts were publicly burned  in Paris  Rabbi Meir was an eyewitness to the public burning of the twenty-four cartloads of Talmudic manuscripts (and he bewailed this tragedy in his celebrated "Kina" Shaali serufah (שאלי שרופה) which is still recited on Tisha B'Av.)

Right-wing activist Joshua Bonehill-Paine called on demonstrators through his website to bring Israeli flags to the July 4 demonstration in the mostly Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Golders Green to “dismember … by hand,” which apparently sidesteps the legal complications of burning national flags.


“This will be a show of solidarity by English people who recognize that Israel is a corrupt state which is responsible for horrific war crimes,” wrote Bonehill-Paine.

Additionally, the activist said there would be a private meeting held before the demonstration in which copies of the Talmud could be burned “in recognition of its racist Anti-White [sic] teachings.”

Bonehill said the purpose of the July 4 protest, which will take place on the Jewish Sabbath, was to demonstrate against the Jewish Shomrim, or Jewish civilian patrols set up to combat, inter alia, antisemitic crime, burglary, vandalism, assault and domestic violence.

White supremacy group the New Dawn Party posted to its Twitter page an advertisement for the July 4 protest with a banner that read: “This is London, not Tel Aviv.”

Another post, dated to Sunday, said the protest was meant to demonstrate against “Jewish privilege.” It ridiculed Jews for having “their own Police force” that “receives training and funding from our own Police force.”

A longtime right-wing and white-supremacist commentator on the Internet, Bonehill-Paine has been investigated by police before on charges of harassment, antisemitic speech and hoaxing.

He had previously planned a Stamford Hill march against the “Jewification of Great Britain,” but those plans were postponed and ultimately scrapped.

According to the British Independent newspaper, the London Shomrim consists of about 80 volunteers and focuses its efforts on neighborhoods with strong Jewish populations, such as Golders Green, Hendon and Barnet. Volunteers are trained by police and don knife-proof vests, and the network boasts a 24-hour hotline.

The Community Security Trust, with about 10 years of experience working to protect British Jewish communities, has said it is “fully aware of this explicitly antisemitic demonstration” and was in contact with police and government officials over the issue, according to the JC.