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Gallery of Yossi Melamed’s Photography Opens

Supporters of JEM gathered last night for the opening of a gallery of the photos of Yossi Melamed, named “770 through Yossi’s lens.” The gallery is open to the public at no charge from 27 Sivan (June 17) until 11 Tammuz (July 1).

Op-Ed Response: Rabbis Cannot be Trusted to Report

by Eli Mandel

Rabbi Yaacov Behrman wrote an op-ed where he says that, although he doesn’t agree with Agudah’s stance that cases of child abuse need rabbinical permission to be brought to the authorities, he also doesn’t agree with Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes‘ recent move that would make rabbis mandated reporters of such crimes.

Picture of the Day: Kiryat Gat Group Portrait

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Students and faculty members of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Kiryat Gat, Israel pose for a year-end group portrait outside their Yeshiva’s building. Seated in the front row from left to right: Rabbi Yonah Yakobovitch, magid shiur b’niglah; Rabbi Moshe Havlin, Rosh Yeshiva; Rabbi Zusha Alperowits, mashpia and magid shiur b’chasidus.

3 Sunday Night L’chaims!

Shlomo Bogart (Sharon, MA) and Chana Rosa Petrikovsky (Great Neck, NY)
Eshel, 272 Kingston Ave. [between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]

Mendel Schtroks (Crown Heights) and Chaya (bas R’ Dovid Aryeh) Greenwald (Crown Heights)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]

Eli Feiner (Los Angeles, CA) and Tova Wilmovsky (Crown Heights)
Lubavitch Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]