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Jews Expect Proposed Ban Won’t Stop Circumcision

By Aaron Glantz for the New York Times
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SAN FRANCISCO — Over the last decade, Rabbi Moshe Trager has performed more than 3,000 circumcisions on Bay Area Jews, he estimates. Mr. Trager, 45, said he sometimes performs as many as five in one day — driving as far as Lake Tahoe to snip a foreskin, helping modern Jews fulfill a commandment they believe was first issued by God to Abraham thousands of years ago.

Beis Eliyahu Nochum Farbrenges for 19 Kislev

Congrangents of Beis Hamedrash Eliyahu Nochum on Lefferts Avenue got together for a Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen. In addition to the Divrei Hisorrerus and Siyum Hatanya the crowd was treated to as special fiddle performance by Rabbi Yitzchok Hurwitz who played the Daled Bovos, video in the Extended Article.

Oholei Torah Celebrates Yud Tes Kislev

2 days, 1600 Talmidim, 3400 Seudos, 7 major farbrengens and 100 Shuls and Yeshivas visited, over the days of Yud Tes and Chof Kislev, the walls of Oholei Torah permeated with Niggunim, Farbrengens, and Chassidus. Not withstanding the restraints of Erev Shabbos, the 1600 talmidim in all divisions had a full measure of chassidishkeit and celebration.