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In recent news… The event, The Second Gathering of European gious slaughter, it is the fact that it is bringing our Jewish and Muslim Leaders, was held under the aus- communities closer together by demonstrating the European Jewish Congress Brings pices of the European Jewish Congress in coopera- commonality of our faith and our traditions,” Kan- And Together tion with the Great Mosque of Paris and the Foun- tor told the gathering. “Through diversity we have dation for Ethnic Understanding. been able to achieve unity. We, Muslims and Jews, European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe The initiative was welcomed by Muslim leaders, stand together and say to our opponents that you Kantor told a large gathering of senior European who called for greater cooperation between Jewish will not be able to change our culture, our traditions Jewish and Muslim leaders that they must all join and Muslim communities in Europe. and our religion.” together to combat the increasing manifestations of “As Jews and Muslims, we share common values discrimination, violence and extremism. and same adversities and are often targets of anti- Irgun Shiurai Holds 11th An- “When an attack is launched against the right to Semitism and racism. But we need to take this fur- nual Dinner practice religion in Europe, we should all stand up ther and remind our leaders across Europe that we against it,” Kantor said. “An attack against one of expect their protection of the people they represent Irgun Shiurai Torah recently held its 11th an- us is an attack against all of us. We, as leaders, have as is the right of every citizen in a democratic soci- nual dinner. Established 17 years ago, Irgun Shiu- the power and the responsibility to create change ety,” said Senaid Koblica, president of the Islamic rai Torah aims to bring Torah to Jews all over the in our , in our mosques, in sending the Council of Norway. word. To date, over 1,000 roshei and rabban- right messages.” The religious leaders also discussed the growing im have delivered shiurim and over 500 shuls have The religious leaders from 18 European countries assault on religious practices after calls to ban cir- organized seminars through the program. Over all, came together for a two-day gathering in Paris to dis- cumcision and religious slaughter have grown across 55,000 shiurim have been organized worldwide. cuss mutual issues of concern, especially the growing Europe in recent months. This year’s dinner was hosted by Mr. and Mrs. hate and extremism in Europe and attacks against “If there is a positive to be taken from the re- Yankie Feuereisen and was in tribute to R’ Shloime religious expression across the European continent. cent assaults on our rights to circumcision and reli- Gross who passed away earlier this year.

OU’s ‘Refl ections On Teshuvah’ Call it “ Changing Places,” call it “Rabbis on the Road,” call it “Bima to This year, for the fi rst time, the program has been extended beyond the New Bima,” or call it simply, “Refl ections on Teshuvah,” but once again this year, some York Metropolitan Area to include Harrisburg and Allentown in Pennsylvania, as of the New York area’s most distinguished pulpit rabbis will exchange places on well as another pairing in the Philadelphia suburbs; Denver; Chicago/Skokie; and September 23, the Sunday before Yom Kippur, to provide their “Refl ections on Te- in Canada, Toronto and Montreal. The sessions (with the exception of one pairing shuvah,” an Orthodox Union signature High Holy Day program. In many cases, in Illinois and one in Pennsylvania) will take place between Minchah and Maariv. the rabbis will be visiting synagogues in their own or neighboring communities. The schedule is as follows:

Brooklyn: Yehuda Septimus of Young Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum of Young Is- Rabbi Etan Tokayer of Kingsway Jew- Rabbi Kenneth Auman of Young Israel of North Woodmere will be @ Young Is- rael of Lawrence-Cedarhurst will be @ ish Center will be @ Young Israel of Flat- of Flatbush will be @ Kingsway Jewish rael of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, 8 Spruce Young Israel of North Woodmere, 634 bush, 1012 Avenue I Center, 2810 Nostrand Avenue Street, Cedarhurst Hungry Harbor Road : Westchester/Riverdale: Rabbi Benjamin Yudin of Congregation Rabbi Ezra Schwartz of Mount Sinai Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Rosenblatt of River- Rabbi Jonathan Morgenstern of Young Israel Shomrei Torah, Fairlawn, NJ will be @ Jewish Center will be @ Congregation dale Jewish Center will be @ Young Is- of Scarsdale will be @ Riverdale Jewish Cen- Mount Sinai Jewish Center, 135 Ben- Shomrei Torah, 19-10 Morlot Avenue, rael of Scarsdale, 1313 Weaver Street ter, 3700 Independence Avenue, Riverdale nett Avenue, Manhattan Fairlawn Rabbi Shmuel Hain of Young Israel Rabbi Steven Exler of Hebrew Insti- Rabbi Eliezer Zwickler of Congregation Rabbi Uri Goldstein of Congregation Ohab Zedeck of North Riverdale will be tute of Riverdale will be @ Young Israel Ahawas Achim B’nai Jacob and David Ahavat Achim will be @ Congregation @ Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 3700 Ohab Zedeck of North Riverdale, 6015 will be @ Congregation Ahavat Achim, Ahawas Achim B’nai Jacob and David, Henry Hudson Parkway Riverdale Ave 18-25 Saddle River Road, Fairlawn 700 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange Queens: Rabbi Steven Miodownik of Ahavas Rabbi Gedaliah Jaffe of Congregation Rabbi Aryeh Sokoloff of Kew Gardens Rabbi Zvi Romm of Bialystoker Syna- Achim Congregation will be @ Congre- Ahavas Yisrael will be @ Ahavas Achim AdathYeshurun will be @ Bi- gogue will be @ Kew Gardens Adath Ye- gation Ahavas Yisrael, 1587 Route 27, Congregation, 216 South 1st Avenue, alystoker Synagogue, 7-11 Bialystoker shurun Synagogue, 82-17 Lefferts Bou- Edison Highland Park Place, New York levard, Kew Gardens Manhattan: Rabbi Lawrence Teitelman of Young Is- Rabbi Barry Kornblau of Young Israel Rabbi Ezra Schwartz of Mount Sinai Rabbi Benjamin Yudin of Congregation rael of New Hyde Park will be @ Young of Hollis Hills-Windsor Park will be @ Jewish Center will be @ Congregation Shomrei Torah, Fairlawn, NJ will be @ Israel of Hollis Hills-Windsor Park, 67- Young Israel of New Hyde Park, 76-48 Shomrei Torah, 19-10 Morlot Avenue, Mount Sinai Jewish Center, 135 Ben- 45 215th St, Hollis Hills 265th Street Fairlawn, NJ nett Avenue Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld of Young Israel of Rabbi Yehuda Oppenheimer of Young Is- Rabbi Dovid Cohen of Young Israel of the Rabbi Allen Schwartz of Congregation Kew Garden Hills will be @ Young Israel of rael of Forest Hills will be @ Young Isra- West Side will be @ Congregation Ohab Ohab Zedek will be @ Young Israel of the Forest Hills, 71-00 Yellowstone Boulevard el of Kew Garden Hills, 150-05 70th Road th st Zedek, 118 West 95 Street West Side, 210 West 91 Street Colorado: Rabbi Moshe Grussgott of Congrega- Rabbi Aaron Mehlman of Congregation Rabbi Ben Greenberg of Rabbi Hillel Goldberg of Rabbi Asher Klein of Den- tion Ramath Orah will be @ Congrega- Ohav Shalom will be @ Congregation Ra- BMH-BJ Congregation East Denver Orthodox Syn- ver Academy of Torah tion Ohav Shalom, 270 West 84th Street math Orah, 550 West 110th Street will be @ Denver Acade- agogue will be @ BMH-BJ will be @ East Denver Or- Rabbi Aryeh Sokoloff of Kew Gardens Rabbi Zvi Romm of Bialystoker Syna- my of Torah, 6825 Alam- Congregation, 560 South thodox Synagogue, 198 Adath Yeshurun Synagogue will be @ gogue will be @ Kew Gardens AdathYe- eda Avenue Monaco Parkway South Holly Street Bialystoker Synagogue, 7-11 Bialystok- shurun Synagogue, 82-17 Lefferts Bou- Pennsylvania: er Place levard, Kew Gardens Rabbi David Wilensky of Congregation Sons Rabbi Akiva Males of Kesher Israel Con- Monsey: of Israel will be @ Kesher Israel Congrega- gregation, will be @ Congregation Sons of Rabbi Joshua Blass of Rabbi Yisroel Gottlieb of Rabbi Dr. Moshe D. tion, 2500 North Third Street, Harrisburg Israel 2715 Tilghman Street, Allentown Kehillas Beis Yehuda Congregation Bais To- Tendler of Community Rabbi Dov Aaron Brisman of Young Is- Rabbi Yonah Gross (speaking during of Monsey Hills will be rah will be @ Community Synagogue of Monsey will rael of Elkins Park will be @ Congrega- Shacharit) of Congregation Beth Hame- @ Young Israel of Mon- Synagogue of Monsey, 89 be @ Congregation Bais tion Beth Hamedrosh, 200 Haverford drosh will be @ Young Israel of Elkins sey and Wesley Hills, 58 West Maple Avenue Torah, 89 West Carlton Road, Wynnewood Park, 7715 Montgomery Avenue Parker Blvd, Monsey Road, Suffern Illinois: Long Island: Rabbi Aaron Liebtag (speaking dur- Rabbi Zvi Engel (speaking during Rabbi E. Samuel Klibanoff of Jewish Rabbi Efrem Schwalb of Eitz Chayim of ing Shacharit) of Kehilath Jacob Beth Schacharit) of Congregation Or Torah Center of Atlantic Beach will be @ Eitz Dogwood Park will be @ Jewish Center Samuel will be @ Congregation Or To- will be @ Kehilath Jacob Beth Samuel, Chayim of Dogwood Park, 661 Dogwood of Atlantic Beach, 100 Nassau Avenue rah, 3800 West Dempster Street, Skokie 3701 W. Devon Avenue, Chicago Avenue, West Hempstead Rabbi Samuel Biber of Skokie Valley Rabbi Shaanan Gelman of Kehilat Cho- Rabbi Jonathan Muskat of Young Israel Rabbi Dale Polakoff of Great Neck Syn- Agudath Jacob Synagogue will be @ vevei Tzion will be @ Skokie Valley Agu- of Oceanside will be @ Great Neck Syn- agogue will be @ Young Israel of Oceans- Kehilat Chovevei Tzion, 4000 Church dath Jacob Synagogue, 8825 East Prai- agogue, 26 Old Mill Road ide, 150 Waukena Avenue Street, Skokie rie Road, Skokie For further information on bringing this program to your community, con- tact 212-613-8351. Friday, September 14, 2012 THE JEWISH PRESS  Page 57 Community Currents The fi rst night of Selichos

Woodbourne Shul

Belz in Yerushalayim (Photo Credit: Anshil Beck/JDN)

Shomer Shabbos in Boro Park

The family of Rav Moshe Leib Rabinowitz, the Munkatch- er Rebbe, celebrated a sim- cha last week when the Reb- be’s grandson Chaim Elazar Horowitz married Sarah Ro- chel, the daughter of Reb Shm- uel Dovid Krausz, the Udavr- er Rav. (Photo credit: JDN)

Rabbi Josh Tabi will begin working as a cam- pus chaplain this semester at LIU Brooklyn. Rabbi Tabi was trained in at Ohr Somayach and Mir Yershalayim. Rabbi Tabi At a meeting last week between Homeland Security and the Brooklyn South has worked with youth at risk at Our Place Safety Patrol about security for the upcoming yamim tovim. and Friday Night Chill, where he has served (Photo Credit: Dee Voch) as director since 2009. Page 58 THE JEWISH PRESS  Friday, September 14, 2012 Community Currents

On Monday, September 3, Con- gregation Lemaan Achai Bukharim held a fundraiser to help with the pur- chase of the build- ing next door so it can expand. Among the guests were Rav Eliyahu Bakshi- Doron, former Sep- hardic of Israel, and State Senator Eric Ad- ams.

Rav Niyazov with Eric Adams. Rav Bakshi-Doron

At the NYPD Appreciation Event Hosted by Hatzalah of the Rockaways and Nassau County

At the Annual White Shul (Congregation Kneseth Israel) Youth Department Carnival, co-sponsored by the JCCRP.

The entire student body of Boys Town Jerusa- lem recently volunteered to pack 2,000 boxes of food for pre-holiday distribution to needy families in the Inspector Chris Cleary – Commanding Jerusalem and regions. Offi cer 4th PCT NCPD and Alex Werc- berger, NYPD Liasion

With Police Offi cer Kevin Campell – 101 PCT Community Affairs Ann C. of Women’s League Com- munity Residences in Brooklyn, NY did some historical research in advance of a recent trip to Richmond, Virginia. Ann and her supervised apartment mates chose to honor the memory of Jew- ish Confederate soldiers by visiting the Hebrew Cem- etery operated by Beth Ahabah on the yahrzeit of one of the soldiers.

Standing (L-R): Asher Taub, Esq., campaign advi- sor for Councilman Dan Halloran, congressional candidate, 6th District, Queens; Dr. Paul Brody, vice president, International Committee for the Land of Israel (ICLI); Rabbi Shlomo Hochberg, YI Jamaica Estates; Dr. Harvey Rosenblum; and Dr. Joe Frager, chairman of the board, ICLI. Seated (L- R): Councilman Halloran; Israel’s Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger; and Rabbi Gershon Tannen- baum, Jewish Press columnist and director of the Rabbinical Alliance of America.