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BRHISll Ri':f'Rt:SENTATIV!-' M.T f\lBE!.\lA"' 37 BRISK: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, Rabbi Shlomo Cronrnor \lbrhs ·\fo1111t l'/casont I Iii/ /_r)IJi/011 /;>; 9..Vf.. F:\'Gf.A ..V{) Lorincz, prepared for publication by ''/onoson nn:NCll fll·:PRE<;ENTATl\'I RAH fl! BAMFIFfH;f:R Rosenblum 21 liou/nanl f'a1.1hm15 57000 Met::. f-RA.!\'Cf: ISHAl·:l.l REl'IH:St:°'TATIVE INT .... l .. MEDIA l'LACFME."i'J PU/3 7195 I y; }r!ff'o Road STATEMENT OF POLICY }t.'niso!em 94340. ISRAE-.l fHJ, h:w1SI! 0BSEl~VER HAS Dl':\'O'IED A GIH.. <\r Dl':Al. Of S!',\Cf. TO BU.GIA_.... RFPRESENTATlVT·: fHF·: l'El~ll.S OE THE f'.\iTFR:'\f:'J' .\ND TO THE "IEFO f-'()f( EVERYO:'\E IO MR. E. APTER BE EXT!tE\1ELY VIGILANT 1.-.; ITS !1.~E. '«'E HAVE f:CJIOFD Till': Pl.EAS I anqc fl:ierit~lr. 2.<J 2018 Ar1t1i·erp. Hf-'f.Gfl ill OF OUR GEDOl.l\t THAT IT .SHOl•l.D N(H ttf: IN USE. trNLE.SS IT !S Ai'\ li_,AVOJOABLE NECESSITY, Ai'\ll TtH:I\/ O'.\il,Y WITH AU. 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DIN,-.;EN I 77 f31r11qa Road SEPTEMBER 2007 / VOLUME XL NO. 6 Tiii'THf· INTERNET.GF:DOl.IM__ O_ .. _._._.._h \VI SH _(_)_O_'_' _.. _,_, __ .. _(;0 N DON F ( ASU \l ll_JSf <H L""""-"'" \\I< "'" ,11 IJR41/,\ - --·-------------- ·- - --- ---... -·-·---------.. ----·-- SEPTEMBER 2 0 0 7 E R S' PRIORITIES IN CHARITY: that is being done in New York. the menahalim was not evident to the THE BALTIMORE FORMULA LAURENCE M. KATZ youngsters growing up. Furthermore, Baltimore, MD if a yeshiva is indeed a private busi­ To the Editor: ness, then the customers will act as Marvin Schick ("The Orthodox DIFFERENT GENERATIONS, market participants and try to drive Community's Confused Priorities," DIFFERENT STRATEGIES down the price. I believe this phenom­ June '07) sees the cup as half empty. enon is the true root of the problem I see it as half full. Perhaps the dif- To the Editor: identified by Mr. Schick. ference is that he is looking at New Once again, The Jewish Observer has In addition, in the following com - York, and I am looking at Baltimore. courageously published an article on ments, my facts may not be entire­ In Baltimore, the local federation, a most serious topic that requires the ly correct, but they are based on the Associated Jewish Federation of attention of our entire tzibbur. "The statements I have heard for older Baltimore, has come to acknowledge Orthodox Community's Confused rabbanim. In the early days of the the vital role of the yeshivos and day Priorities," by Marvin Schick, astutely yeshiva world in America, the olam schools in educating the next genera- traced the steep decline in sacrifice haTorah wonld shun relationships tion to appreciate and connect to our being made for the sake of Torah-true with the Federation. Only money that heritage. This has not always been education across all modes of the ca1ne from pure sources was accepted. so, and the federation vision may Orthodox community. Negotiating for funds from organiza­ not precisely be the vision of Marvin I, however, am from a generation tions such as U)A-Federation that can Schick or me or the readers of The later than Marvin Schick, and perhaps also involve all sorts of hashchasa was Jewish Observer, but they have come can offer an additional insight. The a second-generation yeshiva phenom­ a long way. early builders of Torah in America, enon. The Federation's withdrawal of We enjoy a mutually support- Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz ':>"ll!, such funds is itself a proof that we, in ive relationship. This past year, the Rabbi Aaron Kotler ':>"ll!, and the our heilige yeshivas, should not accept Associated advocated with a promi- many roshei yeshivas and rebbei'im such monies. nent foundation to support day school in the yeshivas in the first half of the YAAKOV WEISS education in Baltimore. The result is 20'h century (RJJ, Torah Vodaath and Rockland, NY a five-year, 15-million-dollar com- Chaim Berlin) were devoted to the mitment under which the Weinberg goal of spreading Torah al taharas CHINUCH SOLUTIONS: Foundation will provide two million hakodesh lesheim Shamayim. There AVOID EXCLUSIVITY dollars per year, and the Associated was no personal gain or benefit. will provide one million dollars per Because of this selfless devotion, they To the Editor: year, on top of its regular allocations were zochim to unprecedented siyatta In his heartfelt angst over the tragic to the Baltimore day schools.
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