DEPARTURES

World Mizrachi runs several leadership programs to prepare rabbis, educators and shlichim to serve in communities around the world. Here we profile some of the families who are starting their shlichut, and some who have recently returned.

Rav Ilan & Chana Brownstein Rav Chaim & Shira Metzger Rav Nechemya & Batya Rosenfeld White Plains, NY Toronto, Canada Nashville, Tennessee

“We are so excited to be heading Chaim and Shira have just arrived for “We landed in Nashville, Tennessee, with our daughter, Emunah Shirah, for shlichut in Toronto, Canada. Chaim just a few weeks ago. During our shlichut as Directors of Youth Pro- will be a member of the Beit Midrash shlichut with Torah MiTzion, we will gramming at the Young Israel of White Zichron Dov (affiliated with YU and teach at the local school which serves Plains, in White Plains, NY. Although Torah MiTzion) and he will also serve all streams and promotes academic youth activities look a little different as Rabbinic Assistant at the BAYT excellence as well as a love for Israel. now with Corona, we’re excited to (Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto) in We also plan to hold chavrutas with make the best of our situation and Thornhill. Shira will be running informal adults in the community and to run create fun and engaging experiences education activities at Ulpanat Orot of small learning groups and classes in for our shul. Additionally, Chana will be Bnei Akiva Schools and coordinating the various synagogues. working as the Program Coordinator the women’s Beit Midrash for OU- “We are especially excited and looking at the Jewish Renaissance Experi- JLIC. Their daughter Talya’s main goal forward to getting to know this Jew- ence, an organization dedicated to will be to charm everyone with her ish community in which the various enhancing and building Jewish con- cuteness. streams work together – Orthodox, nection and education. Chaim and Shira hope to bring Torat Conservative and Reform. We come “In all of our different roles, we’re ex- Eretz Yisrael with them and contribute with a passion for teaching and with cited to help connect those around us to the thriving Zionist community of the humility to learn from this unique to the sweetness of the Torah and the Toronto. They are looking forward to community, and with the help of G-d light of Hashem.” making connections with the members we shall succeed.” of the community (hopefully in person and not only virtually). Chaim and Shira are confident that they will gain and learn much from the Toronto commu- nity, of which they have already heard amazing things.

Raising the bar in leadership development, Mizrachi is revolutionizing the recruitment and training of the next generation of rabbinic and educational leaders to serve world Jewry. Through pinpoint searches in Israel and unique partnerships with local communities we have built a cadre of young and powerful educators ready to serve and to lead. To find out more, contact Rav Hillel van Leeuwen at [email protected].

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Rav Yonaton & Avital Hirschhorn Rav Moshe & Moria Gold Rav Dr. Shlomo and Maryland, Baltimore Borehamwood, England Rabbanit Amira Glicksberg Johannesburg, South Africa

“We were educators with Mizrachi/ “We have just returned from two years OU-JLIC at the University of Maryland. of shlichut, where we wore so many Rav Glicksberg served as a Dayan on ‘hats’. Over the course of a weekend, The opportunity to affect Jews during the Johannesburg Beth Din, the Senior we would first meet with students at their transformative years as young Rabbi of the Mizrachi Yeshiva College adults – after high school and after Finchley Synagogue where Moshe Shul and as the Rosh Kollel of the Beit their Gap Year – was incredible. This helped run the Night Seder. The next Mordechai Campus Kollel. is when they are shaping their views day we would meet with high school on life: What does marriage look like? teens, teaching them Prophets and Rabbanit Amira founded and built How do you raise children? What does Jewish Philosophy. On Shabbat itself, the Midrasha, a high-level women’s it mean to get a job? Am I a liberal or as Assistant Rabbi at Borehamwood learning program, catering primarily to a conservative? Being there for them Shul, Moshe would give a high-level those who have returned from learning during these turbulent years was a shiur before the Torah reading. Then in seminaries in Israel with also high as Borehamwood Youth rabbinic cou- huge zechut. level women’s shiurim for the broader ple, we would host 30 teenagers in our community. “We never told anybody what to be house for Seudah Shlishit. We were or how to behave. We gently tried to not done yet! Moshe would lead the The Glicksbergs, through these mul- push them out of their comfort zone most amazing discussions for adults in tiple roles, touched the lives of many and make them think about their a shiur on “Tzurba M’Rabanan” (prac- hundreds of families during the course choices. It might be easy to convince tical Halacha). On Sundays, we ended of their multifaceted shlichut in building some students to stay religious (and the weekend playing foosball, football the community, Beit Midrash learning push off intermarriage for one more or tennis with the community kids, piz- and the Beth Din. generation), but their children will grow za in one hand and a tennis racket in in a strongly Jewish environment only the other! Over the course of the entire The Glicksbergs recently returned after if their parents themselves actually weekend, Moria also gave classes to six years in South Africa, and Rabbi become passionate Jews. the women of the community making Glicksberg has been recently appoint- “It was all about building relationships our experience truly holistic in nature. ed as the Rosh Beit Midrash of the and being their friends. So as you can “These roles helped us make an prestigious Machon Ariel/Harry Fischel imagine, leaving the campus was not impact on a far wider circle. We got to Institute which trains some of the easy for us, as we had 400 children experience and influence the commu- leading dayanim – rabbinic judges and we felt so close to and so connected nity in all its beauty; the young chil- rabbis – fulfilling such roles in Israel to.” dren, the students, and their parents.” and around the world.

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