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Community Currents Preschoolers in the Rambam Day School of Savannah, Georgia learn about the Aleph Bais and their names.
On Sunday, October 13, the Yeshiva of Central Queens kicked off its Parent-Child Sunday Learning Program.
600 Communities Join Shabbat Together
Friday night meal at Chabad in Albany highlighting mental health. held its annual commemoration of RaEarlier this month, the Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation
Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein getting a berachah from Rav Chaim Kanievsky.
chel Imeinu’s yarzheit. A buffet dinner was held at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center on October 14. The dy Dechter, co-directoronofthe Friendship Circle of Mi-Rakeynote speaker was Rabbi Jonathan Rietti who gave a dramatic presentation relationship between ami Beach and North Dade. chel Imeinu and the nal Geulah.
In Columbus, Ohio, participants heard from Joseph Bensmihen – who was born with spastic cerebral palsy and became a multimillionaire and congressional candidate – in a talk titled “The Art of Refusing to be an Outsider.” In Richmond, Va., ShabbaTTogether at Kinneret College. an inclusive havdalah program was followed by a screening of the short film “The Interviewer. Including people living with disabilities and Friendship Circle of Wisconsin held its first-evmental health conditions in Jewish communal life er Shabbat dinner, as 175 people sat around tables was the focus two weekends ago in over 600 Jewish adorned with centerpiece vases created by adults communities that took part in The Second Annual with disabilities. Chabad of Uptown Houston, TexGlobal ShabbaTTogether initiative, a project of the as, held a Mental Health First Aid training course, Ruderman Chabad Inclusion Initiative. and at Chabad of Manchester Universities in the Keynote Speaker Rabbi Jonathan Rietti Yechezkel Chaim shared Deutsch, Evelynaccount of livandFrom Evelyn founder andwho president theHaies, 300 participants joined theRabbi FriendU.K.,Pikus, Esty Simon a and firsthand Haies. of RCRF. ship Circle of Miami Beach and North Dade for a ing with an invisible disability. warm Shabbat meal, followed by the two-day Bike“Since its inception two years ago, ShabbaT4Friendship ride, to the young Australians of the Ali- Together has grown in leaps and bounds,” said Dr. ya Youth Institute in Melbourne, a kaleidoscope of Sarah Kranz-Ciment, PT, DPT, project director programs and initiatives focused on the many ways of the Ruderman Chabad Inclusion Initiative and that individuals and communities can become more founder of Friendship Circle of Virginia. “Its iminclusive. pact reverberates throughout the world, and cer“It is incredibly inspiring to see the community tainly helps bring practical inclusion to so many unite behind this amazing cause,” said Rabbi Men- communities.”
Second graders at the Torah Day School of Atlanta celebrated making a siyum and receiving their Chumashim.
Honorees pose behind the Jewish Mother’s Day cake donated by Pressers Bakery Avenue M. (L-R) Mark Langfan, Breaking the Silence Award; Rabbi Yechezkel Pikus, Rahel Imeinu Community Chessed Award; Evelyn Haies, Fran and Stephen Epstein Actualist Award; Esther Lamm, Young Leadership Award; and Mitchell Shapiro, esq., Rachel Imeinu Activist Award.
On October 2, Zicharon, an organization that assists people on issues relating to demenEarlier this month, the Sanzer Rebbe, Rav Tzvi Elimelech Halberstam, visited the Teaneck home of Ronnie and tia, hosted an informative evening in Menorah Hall featuring renowned dementia experts Beth provided Stern, to extend his brachot tomuch-needed those who show support forinformation the Shefa Chaim Fertilitywith Center at Laniado Hoswho the audience with advice and on dealing this pital in Netanya, Israel. Ronnie’s father, Chaim Stern, and the Sanzer Rebbe’s father were deported disease. Among the speakers were Rabbi Eliezer Kaminetzky; Dr. Gary Kennedy, chief of Ge- to the same concentration campat inMonte 1944 andore remained entire months of internment. riatric Psychiatry Medicaltogether Center;the and Matt14Kudish, senior vice president of caregiver services of the NY Chapter of the American Alzheimer’s Association.
Senator Simcha Felder hosted Comptroller Scott Stringer at a Community Leadership Breakfast at the Ohel Jaffa Family Campus, providing over 100 prominent community members the opportunity to bring issues of importance directly to the comptroller.
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Masbia Calls For Gefilte Fish Donations to the Community Fish-To-Dish announces a “double your im- sought-after item,” said Alexander Rapaport,
pact challenge” to encourage people to help feed the needy. Every $5 donated to Masbia to buy a loaf of gefilte fish for a needy person will be matched with a loaf from Fish-To-Dish. A special webpage was launched with a goal to raise 20,000 loaves of gefilte fish. Masbia of Boro Park serves hundreds of families weekly with supplemental groceries. “Raw ofUmlas) frozen gefilte fish is a very (Photo credit:loaves Zalman
executive director of the Masbia Soup Kitchen Network. “We just never have enough and we really want to make sure that everyone is able to make Shabbos with at least some gefilte fish at their table. I am extremely grateful to Fish-ToDish for their generosity.” Visit www.masbiaboropark.org/gefiltefish for more information.
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