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Special-Needs Families Get a Saturday Night Out

NJ Jewish News

Enjoying activities at Gold’s Gym on the Aidekman campus as part of Friendship Circle’s Saturday night out are, from left, Alex Shedlin, Max Smokler, and Jeremy Bondy.

Lori Solomon of North Caldwell was thrilled to drop off her three children at the Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus in Whippany on Saturday night and head out for a nice dinner with her husband.

3 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Chona Nosson and Chana Rochel (nee Fox) Gewirtz
Hadar Hatorah, 824 Eastern Pkwy [Kingston and Albany Ave]

Shloimy and Tzirel Baitz
884 E New York Ave [between Schenectady and Utica Ave]

Shalom and Cherry (nee Pinson) New
502 New York Avenue, Apt 4B [between Lefferts and Sterling St]

D I A S P O R A I S M – The Golus Mentality Syndrome

by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Florida

The renowned Chassidic psychiatrist, Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twersky, is wont to dress in Chassidic garb – long black coat, full white beard and round black hat. Once, in an airport, he was approached by a Jew who was obviously irritated. Before he knew it, the fellow unleashed a battery of Yiddish words upon him: “Ach Vus’Ara Shandeh! Vus’Ara Bushah…!”

“What’s wrong with you? Must you insist on parading around in that medieval get-up, as if it were Purim? Don’t you realize how ridiculous you look? You bring nothing but scorn and embarrassment upon us Jews! If you could only dress like a Mentch – like a civilized being…”

“I fail to understand what thee art saying,” Dr. Twersky responded in a perfect english accent. “Is there something bothering you? Perhaps you’re mistaking me for somebody else. You do realize that I am Amish, don’t you? This is the traditional mode of dress that we’ve preserved throughout the generations.”

“Oy vey! I beg your pardon,” pleaded the back-pedaling Jew. “I didn’t realize that you were Amish. You look so much like those Chassidic fellows. You should know that I have nothing but respect for you and your people — keeping to your ways without bowing to society’s wills and whims”

Bozeman Rabbi Starts Kosher Certification Agency

Rabbi Chaim Bruk and his wife, Chavie, stand outside their Bozeman home. An extension built onto the home houses Montana’s first modern-day mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath.

MONTANA [AP] — An orthodox rabbi from Bozeman is starting Montana’s first kosher certification agency as part of his drive to bolster Judaism in the Big Sky State, where fewer Jews live than almost anywhere else in the country.