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An Unconventional Convention: Women and Judaism

by Rabbi Getzy Markowitz

We live just two short blocks from the old New York State National Guard Armory, in Brooklyn. One hardly sees any activity near the Armory. When you do see something, you say something, as suspicion inclines you to call the authorities.

Info to be Menachem Avel the Lewis Family

Mr. Simcha Lewis is sitting shiva for his father (Meir ben Yehuda) in Manchester, UK till Wednesday morning.

Address: 134 Albert Avenue, Prestwich

Phone: (US #) 646 434 6756 – please note they are 5 hours ahead

Email: simchalewis@gmail.com

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

7 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Chaim and Rochi (nee Rapoport) Benjaminson
660 Lefferts Ave [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Yitzi and Chana (nee Kugel) Hershkop
Ohel Nosson, 580 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Dovid and Chani (nee Sheinberger) Okunov
FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]

Avremi and Chany (nee Seldowitz) Lapine
474 Malbone St, 1st Floor [between New York and Clove Rd]

Alex and Yulia Dekhterman
770 Lefferts Avenue, Apt A5L [between Troy and Schnectady Ave]

Shmuel and Rivky (nee Bell) Kaufmann
436 Sterling St [between Brooklyn and New York]

Shmuel and Shterny Teichman
Rayim Ahuvim, 1614 Carroll St [corner Schenectady Ave]

Beis Rivkahs Chayolei Tzivos Hashem Rewarded

As part of the Chayolei Tzivos Hashem program, students receive miles from their teachers for a variety of reasons, such as good behavior in class and davening nicely. With these miles the students then scan them at the school’s kiosk to be added to their account. These miles are put towards any item or items of their choice in an online auction by Chayolei Tzivos Hashem.

Elusive Semicha Sufaces – More Questions Ensue

by Yonason Assange

The Semicha he refused to produce: Semicha signed by R. Brauns father, Rabbi Chaim Eliezer Braun, signed and written with different pens.

A storm of allegations and questions has arisen about the election of Rabbi Yosef Braun. Most recently an ikul, a rabbinic injunction, was imposed on the Vaad Hakohol until further inquiry could be made by a neutral Beis Din.

Jewish Community Portrays Tunisian Synagogue Burning as Isolated Incident

by Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org

The El Hamma, Tunisia, resting place of Rabbi Yosef Maaravi, a 16th-century Kabbalist, sits in the middle of a courtyard where arsonists set fire to a small synagogue Tuesday.

Less than a week after taking office amid Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution, Interior Minister Farhat Rajhi defended the national unity government against what he said were conspirators intent on sowing disorder by setting fire to a synagogue in the village of El Hamma, some 30 kilometers from Gabès.