M Rosh Ha-Shanah 5771 IDRESHET MORIAH

Dear Parents A Message From Vicky and Alumnae This past year, Am Yisrael lost a great woman, Lady Amelie Jakobovits. At her passing, she was mourned On the sevenShabbatot which follow Tishah as “the mother of British Jewry,” but in her lifetime, Be-Av, we read the “Shiva De-Nechemta,” a she was the wife of the late Chief of Great series of specialhaftarot of consolation. We begin Britain, Lord Jakobovits, and an unusually dynamic on “Shabbat Nachamu” with “ Nachamu, person in her own right. Lady Amelie was a beacon nachamu, ami…”, and continue for seven weeks, Tofchesed and compassion and a source of down-to- until the Shabbat before Rosh Ha-Shanah. earth good sense and good counsel. Her emunah If we follow the haftarah was unshakable, whether during her experiences in carefully each week, we the Holocaust or after suffering the loss of close family members. sense a progression: I was one of the extremely fortunate people who had an unusually close Our relationship with relationship with her. Lady J, as she was affectionately known to her friends, Hashem rises from the was my aunt, and also often stepped in to act as my mother. I can honestly ashes of destruction, say that so much of what I became and so growing in strength much of what our children became was a result Lady Jakobovits each week, until, by the of the love she showered upon me and the provided us end of the seven weeks, we lessons she taught me. are being embraced once again as Hashem’s with the anchor When she was a young mother of five, it was bride in thehaftarah of “ Sos asis ba-Shem.” natural to her to become a mother to her sister- and stability These sevenhaftarot seem to link Tishah Be- in-law’s four children when she passed away. I we needed Av with Rosh Ha-Shanah. But what is the was a twelve-year-old child, the second of those connection between the destruction of our two four children whom she helped to weather that Batei Ha-Mikdash and the New Year? terrible storm. She provided us with the anchor and stability we needed at the We often think of Rosh Ha-Shanah as a time time, never allowing us to wallow in self-pity. Both “Aunty Amelie” and my of fear and awe, a day of judgment. But Rosh Ha- uncle made it clear that they had great expectations for us and would not Shanah is also a chance to begin again with a fresh allow us to disappoint our family. slate, with the mistakes of the past year wiped As I try to recover from her loss, I think of the great lessons my aunt taught away byteshuvah . Even more than that, it is a me, and which I would like to share with you on the eve of Rosh Ha-Shanah: time of special closeness to Hashem, culminating • Never take yourself too seriously. Maintain a sense of humor about with the celebrations of Sukkot two weeks later. yourself and recognize that we all have shortcomings. If you attain this Tishah Be-Av brought us terrible suffering because midah, it will be easier to relate to every human being with respect. of our failings in Ben Adam La-Makom (the first • There is good in every person. It is your job to find it. Beit Ha-Mikdash) and Ben Adam La-Chavero (the second Beit Ha-Mikdash), but if • When you are with individuals, make them feel that they are unique we learn from those failures and and you are truly interested in what they have to say. Everyone who knew my aunt felt they had a special relationship with her grow beyond them, strengthening because that is how she related to them. our connection with Hashem • If you have nothing to do (which never happened to her), do throughtefilah and mitzvot and chesed. The opportunities are limitless. My aunt spent the first our relationships with fellow hours of every morning (afterdavening ) phoning people who human beings through chesed continued on page 2 continued on page 7 Michal Porat-Zibman, Alumnae Director

Shalom to Director of Alumnae And now, as we begin the contact information so we our dear affairs, and Baruch new year with this year’s can stay in touch. Hashem alumnae! , so much has Midreshet crew, we’re also May Hashem bless you happened since then! We’ve working on more ways to I want to and your families with a uploaded videos of pre- connect and reconnect with Ketivah Va-Chatimah welcome the chagim messages from you this coming year. So... Tovah wonderful class , and a beautiful, various faculty members stay tuned! of 2009-2010 to healthy, and sweet new via YouTube, recorded the Midreshet Please email me at year, a year of continued specialshiurim for alumnae family. [email protected] spiritual growth and a year alumnae in honor of It’s only been a for any suggestions or ideas of staying in touch with Shavuot, and had various few months since our last you may have, or if you your Midreshet Moriah reunions andshiurim over newsletter, when I wrote just want to update your family! the summer. for the first time as

Spotlight on Alumnae Leaders Elissa Schertz (2003-04) Lawrence, New York

After graduating from Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, I spent a year learning in Midreshet Moriah. I then continued my studies in Stern College for Women and graduated with a BS in Marketing. I now work for a magazine subscription company and also part-time for New York NCSY. Because of my classes at Midreshet Moriah and my exposure to the dedicated faculty who showed their love of Torah, I realized At this year’s Yom Iyyun on Zionism, that sharing these values with others is what I want to do. Major Ro’i Levi, a commander of the Working with NCSY, I have headed trips to New Orleans to help Golani Brigade’s commando unit, rebuild the Jewish community in the aftermath of Hurricane explains to the Class of 5770 how Katrina, as well as organized and run a trip for high school the IDF fights using the latest students to Berlin, Germany. For the last three years, I have co- technology and intensive training, but also the highest ethical standards. chaired a community-widetzniut fashion show, Project Frumway, and have started Project Jump, a soon-to-be-national program in yeshiva day schools which gives students hands-on recalled how helpless I felt. Getting involved in B’lev Echad was an experience inkiruv and chesed . opportunity to honor those who were killed al Kiddush Hashem. In 2009, I served as a committee member for B’lev Echad, a My love forkiruv and Eretz Yisrael stems from my year of worldwideHachnasat Sefer Torah event commemorating the studying at Midreshet Moriah. From the variety of classes I took, eight students who were killed in Mercaz Harav. Remembering and because of the relationships I developed with faculty the first night I arrived in Midreshet, when Dr. Applebaum and members, passion and love for Torah and helping others has his daughter were tragically killed in the Café Hillel bombing, I become an invaluable part of my life.

A Message From Vicky continued from page 1 were ill or suffering. On her last Erev Pesach, she Finally, I would like to add a perspective on marriage for phoned over six hundred people. those of you who are or will be married (I hope that means • There are very few real problems in life. But there are all of you). When my aunt was about to marry my uncle, many situations which need a solution. Don’t dwell who was already Chief Rabbi of Ireland, he said to her, “I on the problems – work on the solutions. don’t want you behind me, and I don’t want you in front of • There is nothing as healthy as laughter and a good me. I want you beside me.” They were blessed with a sense of humor.Hashem wants us to be happy, and marriage that was a true partnership, where each one therefore limits our time of aveilut. helped the other achieve greatness. This blessing of ahavah, • Nothing is as important ashakarat ha-tov , whether to achvah, shalem, ve-re’ut is what I wish each one of you for Hashem or to the people in our lives. Never forget to the coming year. May we hear ofsmachot from you all! thank those who are good to you. Mrs. Vicky Berglas, Director 2 Reflections on Midreshet Sharona Elmaleh (2009-10, Shana Bet 2010-11) Toronto, Canada You get so much out of being in Poland – it totally changes the meaning of the Holocaust to see firsthand where it all took place. You hear so many stories that are so inspiring: of a man who saved his small portion of food to lightChanukah candles in a time of darkness; of a girl who risked her life, Reflections on climbing into a giant soup pot to smuggle ashofar into the Midreshet camps to be sounded onRosh Ha-Shanah . It’s mind-boggling to realize how hard it’s been for Gaby Markovich the Jews to survive, let alone keep thechagim – yet they (2009-10) Boca Raton, Florida persisted. We, B”H, have it so easy. We pause our TV shows and go upstairs to our already-set menorahs, or Everyone always says that you never fully experience the “Yoms” unless you celebrate walk five minutes to Shul to hear theshofar . We need to and commemorate them in . After put our lives in perspective, taking nothing for granted – having had the opportunity to do so, I agree not the people in our lives, nor our freedom, Israel, 100%. Midreshet made all the “Yoms” so anything. We need to be proud to be Jewish – these people died Al special and memorable. Kiddush Hashem because they were Jewish, and died as proud Jews. We E need to follow their example, remember them and what they stood for, On Yom Ha-Zikaron, we joined the rest of and be proud. Israel in commemorating at Har Herzl the soldiers who have fallen. We also heard Midreshet really helped solidify these ideas by giving us the moving speeches by the soldiers. After a materials we use to build ouremunah , bitachon, ahavat Yisrael, and tekes ma’avar in Neve Daniel, the mood ahavat Torah u-Mitzvot. switched from somber to exciting – we danced the night away at Rav Eitan’s house. The next day, on Yom Ha-Atzma’ut, we went to Neve Aliza, where we danced, barbequed and played baseball. To top the “Yoms,” Yom Yerushalayim was truly unforgettable: We danced and sang the whole day through the streets of . Midreshet made sure that through all these activities, we felt connected to Am Yisrael andMedinat Yisrael .

Celebrating Yom Yerushalayim Eve, Rachel Rosenberg, Tova Medetsky, Sharona Elmaleh and Rachel Levy rock Midreshet with some guided improvisation on the “darbuka.”

3 Yishuv Life Inspired by Midreshet

P’nina Gabler (2003-04, Shana Bet 2004-05) Hollywood, Florida

fter graduating Weinbaum Taragin’sNevi’im classes, Michal’s Yeshiva High School in mishmars and Vicky’s Holocaust classes. Florida, I came to All that I learned pointed to some incred- Midreshet Moriah, where I ible understanding; something that was fell in love with the learn- in our daily prayer and our weekly ing, the teachers and parsha, but had never before come to Awith Israel. Midreshet light as it did sitting in that Beit Midrash Moriah has had a tre- in the middle of Yerushalayim, with mendous impact on my life and contin- Sha’are Zedek Hospital on one side and ues to do so. Before my year in Israel, I Har Hertzl and on the other. never thought I would live here, let alone I just had to take advantage of this ing to Midreshet for Shana Bet and then study here, in Bar-Ilan University. tremendous blessing. I, too, wanted my aliyah that December. I became a Midreshet Moriah certainly opened children to learn Torah from such a madrichah the following year at Tiferet, my eyes to Zionism in a young age and under- starting Bar-Ilan University and finally way that I never stand the words finding my husband here in Israel (Baruch Hashem , it does happen!). We have been privileged to host many yeshiva and seminary students at our Shabbos table, returning the favor which we received so many times. I have just finished a course in Cranio-Balance Therapy, and I also work for a property management firm. But the truth is that my kids take up most of my time, with one boy almost 3 and another who’s 14 months old. We’ve been living in the beautiful, idealistic community of Kochav HaShachar – 45 minutes north of Yerushalayim, in Mateh Binyamin. We imagined. I so much love the peacefulness andkedushah we guess it helped more natu- sense here, either through the incredible living right across from rally than I did. I, too, people living here or maybe just from the the Har Herzl military cemetery, wanted to spend the chagim land itself. There’s nothing better than where we would go with Michal, taking walking around Yerushalayim saying driving with the kids in the car and my our places along with the rest of Am Chag Same’ach to the storekeepers and toddler pointing straight ahead asking, Yisrael to experience the pain of losing cab drivers. I, too, wanted to see people “Is that Yerushalayim?” another soldier. My seminary year even and look into their eyes, knowing we And being so grateful to respond, began with a terrible tragedy, yet it only shared something very special. I wanted “Yes.” ignited a longing inside me to unite with to be here to share in the joys and in the Israel and live among my nation, my sorrows of our nation. family. This indescribable, unexpected As this yearning intensified, things yearning grew slowly, throughout Shani began to fall into place, with return-

Taking advantage of our open invitation to all alumnae to come back home and learn with us, Joanna Blumenthal, Brianna Brockman, Rebecca Weinstein, Rena Rosenberg, Proudly holding their trophy from the Avichayil Arfe, Elana Camp HASC-sponsored “Hascetball” Mittel and others... tournament, squad members hit the Beis to learn Tikki Miodownik, Rachel Ohayon, and with Malka and get Aliza Saltzburg celebrate their victory a Torah recharge. 4 and make us proud! Ariella Perl and Ayala Mocton proudly show off the fruit of (a great deal of) their labor – this year’s student yearbook, full of fun and great memories! Building a Spiritual Home Rabbi Yitzchak Lerner, Senior Faculty There are two we take three steps forward, we main ways that enter Hashem’s chamber and speak we as Jews with Him. On the other hand, when communicate one learns Torah, Hashem comes with Hashem: down to us. through tefilah We all aspire to be granted the and through brachahof building a Bayit Ne’eman Torah. Be-Yisrael. The question is how one These two means are connected to goes about achieving it. I think using With great our hearts and our heads. When the the principle that Rav Aharon sug- Gemarain Ta’anit asks what is meant gested may provide guidance in how appreciation when the Torah prescribes that one to begin. Our homes must be places to those who generously must serve God with one’s heart, of constant Torah learning, places in the answer is –tefilah. On the other which we are bringing Hashem contributed to our Midreshet Moriah hand, learning is carried out with inside. An architect in the secular Scholarship Fund 2010-2011 one’s head. This idea of serving world will always say that when Hashem through prayer, the heart, building a house, the room around all and through learning, the head, is else revolves is the kitchen. As Mrs. Nicole Appleman also evident through ourTefilin – the observant Jews, however, the first Dr. Dov and Dr. Ada Berkowitz “shel yad” is next to our hearts, room we must design is the one Mr. Rubin and Mrs. Mandy Brecher while the “shel rosh” is next to our wheresefarim will be kept, where Mr. Barry and Mrs. Sharon Fleischmann heads. the learning will take place. From Talmud Torahand tefilah are the there, everything else in our homes Mr. Neil and Mrs. Rozi Minsky backbone of the Jewish people. In takes its cue. Mr. Martin and Mrs. Evelyn Pollack Parshat Balak, when the prophet During theYamim Nora’im, we Dr. Jay and Dr. Helena Rubin Bilam tries to curse the Jewish will communicate with Hashem Mr. Kenneth and Dr. Rochelle Sherman people, he aimed, Chazal tell us, through bothtefilah and learning. We Mr. Baruch and Mrs. Esther Weinstein straight for ourBatei Midrash and our have the opportunity, in a very Batei Knesset. He knew that here, in intense way, to concentrate upon these two realms, lies our our relationship with Hashem. With Please take part in our scholarship effort and inheritance. In the end, Hashem the help of these two powerful tools, make it possible for a young woman to spend turns his curse to a blessing, and may we bezocheh to serve Hashem her year at Midreshet Moriah by contributing to Bilam ultimately proclaims, “How to the utmost degree. the Midreshet Moriah Scholarship Fund. goodly are your tents, O Opportunities are also available to dedicate a Jacob, your dwelling in honor or in memory of someone special places, O Israel.” The to you. Gemarain Sanhedrin says that this refers to houses Remember – your contribution will enable us to of prayer and learning. provide another Midreshet Moriah student with Rabbi Aharon Kotler, the chance to experience a year of learning and founder of Lakewood growth in Eretz Yisrael. Yeshiva, asks what the difference is between these two forms of To contribute or for more information, communication, learning please contact and davening. He Rabbi Lerner renewing the Midreshet Polly Kramer, Development Associate, answers that when we connection with our alumnae in London at at [email protected] pray, we ascend to this year’s “Sem Fair.” Thanks for all the Hashem’s palace. When help with recruiting, ladies! 5 Rabbi Hanoch Teller

I’M VISITING A in alive – had already lost their once we were deprived of Michigan, minding my own business, when an desire to live, but just had not everything, we would become elderly gentleman, a total stranger whom I yet given up the ghost.” hollow, forgetful of dignity and shall call Reb Nochum, approaches me. “This brings me to erev restraint, and once you lose all, you Without so much as a “Hello” or any other Yom Kippur when we had can lose yourself as well. comment, he asks me if I wish to hear a story. our greatest dilemma. My friends and I – rigid “And this is precisely what we were Reb Nochum seats himself across from skeletons sitting on the floor, eyes glazed fighting against, which is why giving zedakah me, and spreads out his hands. On his left from starvation – thought long and hard was so important to us. We were obsessed forearm is the faded blue numeric reminder about what we would do. We had thus far with fulfilling this mitzvah and contradicting of a sojourn in Auschwitz, what some refer to maintained not only our lives, but also our the savagery which surrounded us. But even as “the passport to Heaven.” humanity and faith in the Almighty. after overcoming incredible hurdles in the Reb Nochum’s hairline has long gone, “It was amazing, but somehow, we had past, we were still at a total loss as to how to and his face is thin and long, and I dare say managed to blow a shofar in the camp on deal with this current challenge, and we dignified. There is this sense about him that Rosh Ha-Shanah, not a hundred blasts, but a began to weep. though his body may be here, his mind is a few whispered notes. We also managed to “Suddenly a fellow Jew placed his tin cup million miles away. Pointing to an imaginary eatmatzos on Passover. Mind you, I am to his cheek and collected his tears and calendar, he announces, “It is just thirteen talking about celebrating a festival in passed the cup to me. I sipped the charitable days untilerev Yom Kippur,a special day, you Auschwitz, where the value of a cigarette gift and then reciprocated by placing the cup know.” was greater than that of a life. I was to my cheeks and passed it to my neighbor. “Years ago,” he begins, “my friends and I personally involved in thematzah baking, and He followed my lead, but by this point we faced a serious dilemma onerev Yom Kippur. the feeling of triumph provided us with the were no longer collecting tears of sadness.” We were prisoners in the world’s most greatest feast of freedom. When Reb Nochum finishes his tale demonic jail, yet we had made a “But onerev Yom Kippur, about 14 there are long moments of silence. I want to commitment to live, even though life may no months after our arrival, we had an thank him for sharing his experience with me, longer have been worth living. insurmountable dilemma. We had to give but a lump is lodged in my throat. This “Hunger had its effect upon us, filling our zedakah on that day – the day before it would wizened octogenarian must know what I am minds and dominating our thoughts. Our be determined ‘Who will live, and who will thinking, for he dabs at his glistening eyes and incessant hunger throbbed in every limb of die’ – but we did not own a thing. They had comments, “It’s OK. This is the season when our bodies, yet it could not distract from the taken away our clothes, our shoes, our we must share; I just started a little early this pain in our feet. names, even our hair. The intention was that year.” “Shoes were not an insignificant issue in theLager . Death began with the shoes which were never the right size, and never matched, causing painful sores which became fatally infected. Walking in them was like dragging a convict’s chain, and trying to run away and escape in those instruments of torture was a thorough impossibility.” “Ausrückenand Einrücken was the constant refrain of our lives: go out and come in; work, sleep, barely eat, fall ill – get beaten along the way – get better or die. Had we As part of our tiyul been logical,” Reb Nochum adds in a tone to the Galil and devoid of self-pity, “we might have resigned Golan this spring, ourselves to the situation. Our fate was Midreshet stopped beyond our control and thoroughly in the off at Mitzpeh Hila, domain of our masters’ whim and will. But home town of Gilad men are rarely logical when their own fate is Shalit, to hear an at stake. And, like I said, we had made a commitment to survive. update on his “The key was believing that the worst family’s situation would not happen to us. Those who didn’t from a close family follow this formula were the first to succumb. friend. More important than the state of our physical health was the state of our minds. If we didn’t have the will to live, the struggle for existence was utterly hopeless. TheMuselmanner – the walking zombies who were more dead than 6 The Fine Details Rena Coren, Faculty

Rav Tzvi Meyer scratch, though the injury the students about the mitzvah... the inspira- Zilverburg (a special could have been severe. tion further heightened the students’ drive to tzaddik living in When Aviva F. (Shana Bet) raise money in creative ways... in one means Yerushalayim) says that heard about the accident, she to raise money, the greatest mistake asked Sara if she had given any candy baskets human beings make is to tzedakahto hachnasat kallah were sold... one Runderestimate the recently. Sara paused for a student bought a immense significance of moment and then it hit her – basket for her their actions, both the gift she had bought for her hosts… perhaps positive and negative. hosts on Shabbat was one of bi-zechut the This past year, the candy baskets being sold mitzvah, she was Midreshet Moriah was to raise money for the orphan protected in a car zochehto undertake a chesed project to raise kallah! Perhaps it was the seemingly effortless accident... one money for an orphankallah . Tointroduce the act of givingtzedakah for a kallah that had Shana Bet student project, Mrs. Esti Yarmush (a true ba’alat saved someone from harm. put together the chesed) came to the Beit Midrash to speak. From the Torah perspective each detail pieces of the She shared a story about a girl who was in a is significant and has tremendous deed... once again terrible car crash, but walked away repercussions. As Rav Wolbe explains in Alei inspiring all who completely unscathed. The girl’s father asked Shur, everything, including the most massive heard the story... her if she had done anything special that day of structures and creatures, is built from the story then became the basis for an article to merit the tremendous miracle that atoms invisible to the eye. about doingteshuvah , so more occurred. After thinking it over, the girl The same is true of our people can be touched by the remembered that she had given money for spiritual selves. When we we not only event.... From here, who knows hachnasat kallah that day. “That is the action want to better ourselves what positive deeds may result which saved you!” the father proclaimed. and grow, we tend to begin improve ourselves, from even one person reading the “The Steipler Gaon once asked why in eilu imagining the life-altering but also the article and taking it to heart... and devarim it mentions three mitzvot in changes we’ll need to on and on.... One little act of succession:bikur cholim , hachnasat kallah , u- make... and we despair. But world around us. chesedor tzedakah influences not levayat ha-meit. What is the significance of in truth, all we really need to only us in our own lifetime, but the this order? He answers that one who do is take one tiny baby ramifications of the act continue performs the mitzvah ofhachnasat kallah is step, to find one small echoing and gathering momen- saved from agezeirah of sickness or death. change we can make in a consistent manner. tum, all the way down the line. And so it is – because of the mitzvah of By doing so, we not only improve ourselves, May Hashem bless you all to find one hachanasat kallah, you were saved.” but also the world around us. small action to take upon yourselves this year. About a week or so later, Sara H., a A case in point is the story above. A May you bezochah to experience the impact Shana Aleph student, was in a serious car group of students decided to take on the of the action on all levels in your own lives accident on amotzei Shabbat on her way mission of raising money for an orphan and the lives of others. Ketivah va-chatimah back to school. She walked away without a kallah… a speaker was brought in to inspire tovah!

Dear Parents and Alumnae: continued from page 1 and justice, Rosh Ha-Shanah provides a time to celebrate our spiritual redemption. May it be Hashem’s will that we use the time beforeRosh Ha-Shanah , starting all the way from Tishah Be-Av and through Elul, to engage in a broad-rangingcheshbon ha-nefesh , helping us understand where we fall short and enabling us to arrive at Rosh Ha-Shanah with joy in Hashem’s warm embrace. Le-shanah tovah tikateivu ve-techateimu! Rabbi Eitan Mayer, Menahel Chinuchi

7 ENGAGEMENTS MidMo Gila Feldman (07-08) and Alby Chait Summer Aliza Isaacs (06-07) and Jason Misher Nurit Kreiger (04-05) and Yonatan Klaym Reunion... Maya Krohn (06-07) and David Joyandeh Rachel Levy (04-05) and Sam Stern Looking Nicole Nathan (06-07) and Chaim Grossman forward to our WEDDINGS Jaclyn Adelsberg (03-04) and Naftalli Moskovitz Winter Sarah Deneroff (06-07) and Dani Kolat Reunion! Hannanel Gershinsky and Bat-Chen Dukan (son of Ruthie and Ahituv) Jackie Green (05-06) and Stephen Moster Enny Kadoch (08-09) and Zev Herskovits Rochelle Lewin (08-09) and Asher Landaw Chavie Lieber (06-07, 07-08) and Yoni Stokar Reflections on Aimee Pelikow (04-05) and Yoely Zipki Aliza Sher (07-08) and Eli Scher Midreshet Stephanie Spinner (05-06, 06-07) and Avi Levie Aviva Wilner (06-07) and Daniel Gordon Shevs Matanky (2009-10, Shana Bet 2010-11) Chicago BIRTHS It was my dream to be able to participate in the official Aliza (Fertig) (87-88) and Philip Friedlander on the birth of Nefesh B’Nefesh arrival ceremony, and this past January, I ful- twins Evyatarand Achinoam Katz (Executive Director of Midreshet filled that dream. Nefesh B’Nefesh is an organization that assists Moriah) on the birth of a son immigrants in creating a new life in Israel, not only facilitating Sarah (Lichtenstein) (99-00) and Ari Bajtner on the birth of their arrival, but twins also helping Emily B. (Shapiro) (93-94) and Ben Menashe on the birth of them integrate a daughter Dassi (Wagner) (99-00) and Itzi Barr on the birth of a them into Israeli daughter life. The moment Rena (Zlatin) (99-00) and Josef Schenker on the birth of the olim stepped twins off that plane, everyone came ACHIEVEMENTS together as a Dr. Yocheved Debow on the completion of her doctorate family to wel-

Mazal Tov CONDOLENCES come them to their new home. Our condolences to Midreshet alumna, Ariella Wruble I’ll never forget Chernikoff (2003-04) on the tragic, untimely loss of her husband, Daniel Chernikoff the most inspir- ing moment I With all the spirit and joy for which we’re known, witnessed, as an Midreshet welcomes a planeload of brand new Olim at Ben Gurion airport this past winter! eighty year-old woman olah was lifted onto someone’s shoulders and we all danced with her. We all danced together with full hearts, as though we had all just made aliyah! Nefesh B’Nefesh provided me with one of my most meaningful experiences this past year.

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