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FEBRUARY 2, 2017 | The Jewish Home
Around the Community
Yeshiva Medrash Chaim of Lakewood Five Towns Parlor Meeting
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eshiva Medrash Chaim of Lakewood, under the direction of The Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Rephael Moshe Gettinger, shlita, held its Annual Five Towns Parlor Meeting event this year once again at the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Tzvi Medetsky in Lawrence. The event attracted alumni and friends of the yeshiva as well as local friends of Rabbi Medetsky. The guest speaker was the esteemed Rabbi Eytan Feiner, shlita, of the White Shul. Rabbi Feiner greatly inspired the audience with his brilliant words of Torah as well as depicting the importance of the mesorah of Torah as it is transmitted from one gener-
ation to the next. He particularly highlighted the value of the Rosh Yeshiva’s mesorah from his Volozhin forbearers, in general, and specifically the transmission of Torah that he received from his father the late venerable Rabbi Menachem (Emanuel) Gettinger, zt”l, the Rav of The Young Israel of The West Side and beloved marbitz Torah in the tristate area for over fifty years. The Rosh Yeshiva, shlita, then concluded the event by thanking Rabbi Feiner for his beautiful words as well the Medetskys and all those who came to show their support for the yeshiva. He also said over a thought that he heard from his father zt”l
that stressed the importance of klal Yisroel identifying Eretz Yisroel as our ancestral homeland and that this status extends to all mekomos of Torah and yeshivos in chutz l’aretz as well. May the inspiration acquired at this event carry over to all of klal Yisroel and indeed result in Eretz Yisroel becoming our actual residence for us all.
Yeshiva Neveh Zion Celebrating 40th Anniversary on February 15
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n February 15, 2017, Yeshiva Neveh Zion, with campuses in Telzstone and Yerushalayim, will celebrate the occasion of their 40th anniversary by hosting a Dinner at the Lawrence Yacht and Country Club. Alumni and friends from all over the world will join together to celebrate the yeshiva, which was founded in 1977, and has been the forerunner of outreach yeshivas, inspiring and motivating our youth. Neveh Zion is proud to recognize the Honorable Martin E. Ritholtz as our Guest of Honor and Rabbi Joey Werner, a beloved Rebbi at HALB, with the Neveh Alumni Chinuch Award. To commemorate this anniversary, Neveh Zion is also honoring twenty-four alumni honorees who span their forty-year history. These individuals will represent their years, and many were selected because of their impact on the Jewish world. Neveh Zion was founded in Moshav Beit Yehoshua near Netanya under the auspices of Itri and then moved to Shaarei Avrahom. In 1982 Neveh moved to its present home in Telzstone, and three years ago, opened
a new branch in Yerushalayim. Neveh Zion has been the vanguard of outreach yeshivas, conquering the challenges facing the young adults of our Jewish communities. Hundreds of alumni now serve their Jewish communities both in America and Israel as educators, rabbis and lay leaders and over 200 have made Aliyah and live in Israel. Countless lives and families were changed and reconnected as a result of the dedicated rabbeim. The Guests of Honor The Honorable Martin E. Ritholtz shares Neveh Zion’s vision and is passionate about the study of Torah and the continuity of the Jewish people. His wife, “Morah” Chana, has been a respected and admired teacher for over thirty years, and together they value the importance of Jewish education. The Judge, as he is fondly known even after his retirement, is an alumnus of prestigious yeshivos such as Kerem B’Yavneh and Ponevezh, and a musmach from Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l. Neveh Zion is privileged to be honoring the Ritholtzs for all they have done to make the vision
of inspiring through Torah study a reality. Rabbi Joey Werner and his wife Racheli will be honored with the Neveh Zion Alumni Chinuch Award. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and son of Rabbi Gerald Werner, a principal and rebbe, Rabbi Joey Werner was brought up understanding the importance of chinuch. After high school, he went to Eretz Yisroel where Neveh Zion would change his life forever. After three years of the Neveh experience, Joey then continued his learning at Sh’or Yoshuv in New York while attaining his smicha and a college degree. Shortly after, Rabbi Joey Werner joined the faculty of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach
(HALB), where he has been a respected and beloved rebbe for the past fifteen years. His students and their parents praise his devotion, talents and concern for every talmid. During the summers, he has been the learning director and sports commissioner at HALB’s Avnet Country Day School for the past ten years. Neveh Zion anticipates that this 40th Anniversary Celebration Dinner will be its largest and most successful. For more information contact Rabbi Ira Hill, alumni honoree and representative, at Yeshiva Neveh Zion, 305-912-4642, dinner@nevehzion.org.
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