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Cleveland’s “Kindest Man” Passes Away

Rabbi Zalman Kazen, third from left, teaches Torah to newly-arrived Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union.

Rabbi Zalman Kazen, a longtime leader of Cleveland’s Jewish community known for his relentless and unyielding energy to assist local Jews with their physical and spiritual needs, passed away at the age of 92. Juggling a hectic schedule into his 90s, Kazen inspired the community to grow in its scholarship and observance.

Then and Now, Chinuch – How It Changed

Rabbi Edelman, one of the first Tmimim, shliach of the previous Rebbe to Springfield MA to open a day school, which he continues to head to this day, will discuss the first tentative steps of day school chinuch in America at the annual Kinus HaMechanchos and contrast them with the today’s chinuch challenges.

Grieving Father Proposes “Leiby’s Phone” – Emergency-Only Cellphone for Children

New York Times

Stanley Patz has been conditioned to expect his telephone to ring whenever a child goes missing, so he was bracing when he heard about the disappearance of an 8-year-old boy, Leiby Kletzky, last week in Brooklyn.