Last week, members of Teaneck’s Rinat Yisrael and Teaneck Township dignitaries, along with friends, family, congregants and neighbors gathered together, as a section of West Englewood Avenue, between Dickerson Road and Pennington Road, was renamed “Rabbi Yosef Adler Way.” It was a fitting tribute for the man who served as both mara d’atra of Rinat Yisrael for 43 years and rosh yeshiva of Torah Academy of Bergen County (TABC) for 32 years.
By Pearl Markovitz | January 28, 2021
Teaneck’s Rinat Yisrael recently featured Professor Eve Krakowski, assistant professor of medieval Jewish History at Princeton, in a discussion of a controversial Maimonidean edict found among the thousands of rediscovered documents from the 1,000-year-old Cairo Genizah.
At the suggestion of her son Yitz, a Ph.D. student in the department of religion at Princeton University, Rinat’s Adult Education Chair Faye Landes was directed to award-winning filmmaker Michelle Paymar, whose recent documentary “From Cairo to the Cloud” provides the extraordinary story of the journey of the Cairo Genizah from medieval Cairo to our home computers via the cloud. The screening of the film will take place on Motzei Shabbat, January 31 at 8 p.m..