Graduating Class Offers Further Examples of Berlin’s Jewish Growth

Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, center, confers an ordination certificate on one of six graduating rabbis from Berlin’s Yeshiva Gedola.

Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, joined by rabbis from across Germany, Israel and the United States, presided over the ordination of the latest class of rabbis to graduate in Berlin.

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Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Mordechai Schapiro OBM

With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Mordechai Schapiro OBM of Crown Heights at the age of 35.

He is survived by his wife Leah and four children Mussie, Mendel, Rivka and Basya, as well as his parents Rabbi Gavriel and Malya Rochel Schapiro.

NM Communities Open Doors to Los Alamos Evacuees

by Mindy Rubenstein – Chabad.org

Smoke from the Los Alamos wildfire blocks the sun 40 miles outside of Santa Fe, NM.

Rivka Goldman couldn’t sleep last night, the putrid smell of smoke seeping into her house in Los Alamos, where a raging wildfire that in the space of a day has consumed more than 44,000 acres led authorities to order the evacuation of the New Mexico town. Goldman and her husband packed up and boarded a plane for Chicago today to visit their daughter.

Talking Judaism in the European Parliament

Jerusalem Post

Rabbinical Centre of Europe Meets with the President of Albania.

The European Parliament hosted a somewhat different group of men in suits last week, when over 100 European rabbis attended discussions under the banner “Is Multiculturalism Sustainable in 21st-Century Europe?” The talks were part of a two-day conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE), an organization representing over 700 European rabbis. In attendance were also Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger and Religious Affairs Minister Ya’acov Margi.