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Gala Extravaganza for Spivak Educational Center Spivak Educational Center hosted its second annual gala event on June 7, 2018. Honorees included it’s the Director of School, Cecelie Wizenfeld, and Sonja Berrin, a Pre-1 master teacher, who inspires her students to learn about the world around…

Supporting Jewish Education for All: Morasha Hebrew Academy Dinner Yehudis Litvak The Rachela Silber Peretz Morasha Hebrew Academy, the program where “no Jewish child is left behind,” held its annual dinner at Ahavat Israel Congregation. The hall was filled to capacity as students and supporters…

LINK Celebrates 16 Years with Gala Dinner and a Visit by Rabbi Krohn The Los Angeles Intercommunity Kollel (LINK) celebrated its 16th anniversary on May 30th with a Gala Dinner, featuring Rabbi Paysach Krohn as guest speaker. Over 400 friends and supporters packed into the Nessah Synagogue’s…

Bais Naftoli Holds 26th Annual Breakfast A standing-room-only audience celebrated the 26th Annual Breakfast at Congregation Bais Naftoli. The event honored Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America, and Dr. David S. Frey, Director, Holocaust & Genocide Studies, U.S. Military Academy West Point.…

Genetic Study Targeting the Ashkenazic Jewish Population Aims to Prevent Cancer Yehudis Litvak The BRCA Founder Outreach Study (BFOR study), currently conducted in Los Angeles, as well as in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, seeks to prevent cancer by providing free and easily accessible genetic…

Are there times when we can use a double-hekish in the laws of sacrifices? Rabbi Shmuel Wise We explored this question on 57a-57b in the daf this week. The gemara there is discussing the time frame for eating the meat of a korban bechor. R’…

Dear readers, The 13th principal of faith listed by Maimonides is, “I believe that the dead will be brought back to life.” Why is it so important that those who have passed away come back to physical life? What’s more, why is it a fundamental…

An Apology to My Fellow Artists Rebecca Klempner Counting from the first time I sold a piece of my writing, I’ve been a professional writer for 13 years. And I have something to confess. Since I’m rather smart when it comes to dishing out advice…

The Depth of Disney’s Inside/Out Rabbi Dov Heller, LMFT The Disney animated movie, Inside/Out, teaches one of the most powerful principles I know for authentic transformation: We experience joy by embracing sadness and other troubling feelings. At first glance it doesn’t make sense – it…

Dear readers, We’re told, “Fix yourself first, then fix others.” The reasons usually given are these: You can’t help someone else without helping yourself first. In the words of flight attendants everywhere, “Make sure your oxygen is secured before helping others with theirs.” It’s hypocritical…

What appears redundant in the Torah’s discussion of a tamei person eating sacred food Rabbi Shmuel Wise, Maggid Shiur at RealClearDaf.com We explored this issue on 43b-44a in the Daf this week. On 43b, Rava gives quite the endorsement to the amora, Zeiri: “Any bereisa…

Cheder Menachem L.A. Celebrates Learning Achievements On Sunday, 28 Iyar, talmidim of Cheder Menachem Los Angeles, together with their parents, grandparents, relatives, and friends, gathered together to mark the culmination of over two months of learning mishnayos and Tanya baal peh, as a present to the…

Dear Readers, A great miracle happened this week. Approximately 40,000 Gazans came to an Israeli border with the intent to overrun it and allow the thousands of violent people among them to flood the nearest Jewish communities – a mere mile away – looking for…