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Around The Community BJX Kings Highway Center Expands Staff Thousands of unaffiliated Israeli, Russian, American, and Persian Jews live in the vicinity of Kings Highway in Flatbush. BJX’s stunning kiruv center that opened in the beginning of this year has already made a major impact, hosting well-attended courses and classes for college students and young professionals. Two cohorts of Jewish leadership students have already graduated from the center. Many unaffiliated Jews have learned elementary Hebrew and have participated in their first Shabbos experience. “The BJX Kings Highway outreach center is ideally situated at the train station and bus depot and is in a heavily trafficked milieu,” said Rabbi Moshe Fingerer, executive director of the BJX organization. “With the addition of new staff and programming, the BJX Kings Highway center will become a bastion of outreach in the area, bringing less-affiliated Jews closer to Torah and Judaism. Plans are to have innovative programs catering to working professionals who are traveling home from work, as well as open a Hebrew school for young families that offers Jewish enrichment for parents
and children. “We’re delighted to announce the addition of a stellar and highly accomplished and creative kiruv team for the Kings Highway location who share our mission of ahavas Yisrael and truly wish to make a positive difference in the lives of their fellow Jews. Each new member of the team has solid hashkafos and Yiras Shomayim and a track record for developing exceptional kiruv programs and showing love and respect to their fellow Jews, no matter what their origin or background,” Rabbi Fingerer enthused. Rabbi Moshe Winograd, who formerly served as a successful campus rabbi at Aish HaTorah and then as department director for volunteer engagement for Aish, will serve as the rabbi and program director of the BJX Kings Highway center. Rabbi Winograd, a PhD candidate in Professional Psychology and Family Therapy, also served with distinction as an adviser at Yachad and later on the crisis intervention team at Chai Lifeline. Malka (Regina) Akhenblit will be the assistant program director at the BJX Kings Highway center. Malka was pres-
ident of the Hillel at Brooklyn College, as well as the president of the Russian Student Association. Malka graduated Brooklyn College and spent several years studying at Neve. She is elated to join the staff of BJX as she truly comes full circle, having been a student at BJX when she was just beginning her path to observance. She is currently an MSW candidate at Columbia University. Under the hadracha, halachic guidance, and passionate inspiration of BJX’s Rav and Rosh Kollel, Rav Yitzchok Fingerer, the lay leadership of the executive committee, led by chairman Mr. Moshe Caller and the administrative and programming direction of executive director Rabbi Moshe Fingerer, BJX looks forward to a year of unprecedented achievement. The Avenue K center will continue to host the Level Two programming for advanced students and also programs for members of the frum community. Their outstanding faculty is comprised of Rabbi David Berk, Rabbi Yosef Benchaviv, Rabbi Aharon Rapps, Rabbi Yaakov Dvorkes, and others.
The renowned Flatbush shul and Beis Medrash housed in the BJX Avenue K center famous for its incredible ruach, inspiring no-talking davening with Chazzan Yossi Kessner and fascinating chaburos and shiurim from the morah d’asra, Rav Yitzchok Fingerer, looks forward to a year of aliyah and spiritual growth. BJX looks forward to the local Brooklyn community being supportive of their exciting endeavors and hopes everyone will help them finance operations at the center. Every contribution helps BJX build another neshama and eventually another Jewish family. The Brooklyn Jewish Xperience shul and organization is truly changing Klal Yisrael one Jew at a time.
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