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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
Mr. Howard Tzvi Friedman
Mr. Joseph Friedman
Olney, MD
Mr. Harvey Hecker
Toronto, ONT
Mr. Steven Rosedale
Cincinnatti, OH
Rabbi Simcha Scholar
Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Nochum Stilerman
Brooklyn, NY
Mr Gary Torgow
Detroit, MI
Rabbi Abraham Twerski, MD
Monsey, NY
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Young Israel Pastoral Counseling Program for Rabbonim
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 Provided by National Council of Young Israel in Conjunction with Ohel Children's Home and Family Services
I
am thrilled to announce the National Council of Young Israel's new
Pastoral Counseling Program, in conjunction with Ohel Children's Home
and Family Services and Touro College.
The Torah teaches us that
the greatest leaders of each generation were shepherds, tending, with
great love, to their flock. Chazal teach us that it was this training,
protecting, and caring that prepared our Avot, the Shvatim, Moshe
Rabbeinu and David HaMelech for their destinies as leaders of Klal
Yisrael.
In today's Torah leadership, the esteemed role of Marah
D'Atra is increasingly challenged by the psychological and social
pressures the 21st century has placed on their congregants.
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OUTREACH
The
world of kiruv is constantly changing with new issues that need
attention, new advances in technology that help us do our work more
efficiently, inspirational people and much more. The following articles
are aimed at keepin you as updated and informed as possible in this area.
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YouTube Gets Religion: Finding G-d on YouTube
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An Article from The Time
When
people think of religion on YouTube, most probably flash to "gotcha"
videos of Sarah Palin's old church or Barack Obama's old pastor. But
the video-sharing site is also being used by a wildly diverse
collection of pastors, rabbis, imams, gurus, and pious laypeople - like
Roman Catholic Steve Silvia, who made the video above - to celebrate
and explain their creeds. These aren't glitzy televangelists. In
keeping with the YouTube ethos, many simply fire up camcorder and go.
But low cost and infinite range, plus the mini-video's ascent as one of
the culture's preferred ways of imbibing information, means vastly
increased exposure for clerics who would otherwise have tiny flocks.
"For years, people in my business talked about how the Internet was
going to revolutionize religion the way the printing press helped
create Protestantism, but it didn't happen," says Steve Waldman,
founder of the multi-faith website Beliefnet. But with the rise of
YouTube, he thinks the unassuming, grass-roots religion clips like the
ones that follow "could be the beginning of that kind of
transformation."
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NORTH
AMERICA
Here are some articles to keep you informed about relevant topics in
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How Success Ruined the New York Jew
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An Article from New York Magazine
A New York Jew is a kind of universally acknowledged wizard, like a Swiss banker, an English tailor, or a Parisian couturier.
Fast-talking,
funny, obnoxious, able to conjure some shimmering, tantalizing
brilliance on the fly while complaining about the stale Danish and bad
coffee and waving a folded copy of the New York Times at the oncoming
traffic, with one foot planted firmly on the cracked sidewalk and the
other tapping on the curb.
Everyone who comes to New York City
in 2008 becomes a little bit Jewish by osmosis. New Yorkers eat Thai
food, buy condoms in Korean delis, and face death at the hands of
insanely reckless Nigerian cabdrivers, but they inhabit a moral
universe in which certainty and doubt are balanced according to a
particular mathematics that is intimately familiar to Jews and not
quite so familiar to other tribes. The glass towers of midtown
Manhattan are filled with Jewish magicians who manipulate abstract
symbols that shape the contents of people's characters and opinions as
well as the contents of their wallets and can seemingly be transformed
at will into other markers of value in a dizzying progression that
destroys the certainties of blood and soil on which life is founded for
ordinary villagers.
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ISRAEL |
Protests Get Jews for Jesus Radio Ad Pulled in North
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An Article from The Jerusalem Post
A wave of irate protest silenced a Jews for Jesus radio campaign last week on a local radio station in the North.
It
took just a few hours for Kol Rega, which broadcasts to the Galilee and
northern valleys, to cave in to pressure from listeners who phoned in
to demand that the Jews for Jesus campaign be taken off the air.
"Shortly
after we broadcast it, we received dozens of angry phone calls from
listeners telling us they were hurt by the crudeness of the ad," said
Haim Hecht, manager of Kol Rega. "The truth is that even before it hurt
my listeners the ad hurt me. It was simply too aggressive and blatantly
missionary."
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Excavations North of Jerusalem Reveal Sarcophagus Fragment Inscribed "Son of the High Priest"
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An Article from Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
A
unique discovery was revealed in excavations that were conducted north
of Jerusalem: a fragment of a sarcophagus cover was found that is
engraved with square Hebrew script, characteristic of the Second Temple
period. The fragment (length 0.60 m, width 0.48 m) is made of hard
limestone, is meticulously fashioned and bears a carved inscription
that reads: "..Ben HaCohen HaGadol.." - "Son of the High Priest."
Numerous
high priests served in the temple during the latter part of the Second
Temple period and there is no way of knowing which of the priests the
inscription refers to. However, it should probably be identified with
one of the priests that officiated there between the years 30 and 70
CE. Among the high priests we know of from the end of the Second Temple
period were Caiaphas the priest, Theophilus (Yedidiya) Ben Hanan, Simon
Ben Boethus, Hanan Ben Hanan and others.
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Sweet Smell of Success: Israelis Enhance Scent of Flowers
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An Article from Yahoo News
Israeli
scientists said on Monday they have discovered a way to genetically
enhance the scent of flowers, a development that could also be used to
breed extra-tasty fruits and vegetables.
"Recent developments
will help to create flowers with an increased scent as well as
producing new scent components," Alexander Vainstein, the head of a
team of scientists at Hebrew University, said in a statement.
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INTERNATIONAL
The following articles are to keep you updated on the ever changing world around us.
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Aussie Holocaust Denier Nabbed in UK
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An Article from The Jerusalem Post
An
Australian teacher and Holocaust denier is scheduled to appear in a
London court on Friday after being arrested by British police on
Holocaust denial related charges after arriving on an inbound flight at
Heathrow Airport in London on Wednesday.
German-born Gerald
Frederick Toben, who lives in Adelaide, will appear at City of
Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London on Friday afternoon on
extradition charges and with "instigation to race hatred, insult and
reviling the memory of the dead," a court clerk told The Jerusalem Post
on Thursday.
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