Rinat to Present Seven-Part ‘Shev Shemateta 101’ Series Dealing With Rabbinic Decision-Making By Pearl Markovitz | April 29, 2021
Scenario No. 1: Every week the eruv in Town A is checked at 12:48 p.m., and announced to the community as intact. What if between 12:48 p.m. and the onset of Shabbat, the eruv was severed by the wind? Do we spread the word?
Scenario No. 2: The keilim mikvah in Town B had 40 seah of water at 8 a.m. on a Monday morning. What if it was discovered that at 6 p.m., the mikvah only contained 30 seah of water, below the required level? Do we make an announcement that the people who used the mikvah at 8 a.m. should come back to tovel their dishes again?
Rabbi Chaim Strauchler To Take the Helm at Rinat By Michal Rosenberg | April 28, 2021
Teaneck’s Congregation Rinat Yisrael recently appointed Rabbi Chaim Strauchler as its new rabbi, replacing Rabbi Yosef Adler, who is retiring after leading the shul since 1979. Rabbi Strauchler comes to Rinat from Shaarei Shomayim Congregation in Toronto, Canada, where he’s been the rabbi since 2008. Previously, he was the leader of Beit Chaverim Synagogue in Westport, Connecticut, for three years.
Rabbi Strauchler spoke with The Jewish Link relating how “thrilled” he is to be joining the Rinat community and is “very excited to be in the center of Modern Orthodoxy in a proudly Modern Orthodox community which exemplifies the best of Judaism.”
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I always liked the idea that on their 100th birthday, centenarians in England receive birthday greetings from the queen. In the United States, they come from the president. The signatures may be facsimiles, but the idea is touching.
No, I won’t be receiving one any time soon; the birthday I celebrated just last week leaves me with 26 years to go. But I was thinking about this in the context of a similar event I’m celebrating today – the publication of my 100th “I’ve Been Thinking” column.
How I Spent My Passover Vacation in Israel By JLNJ Staff | April 08, 2021
NJ students in Israel organize “day of sports” for youth at risk in Jerusalem.
(Courtesy of Aish) Every year, students at the Yeshiva Aish HaTorah’s Aish Gesher program in Jerusalem bring joy to the children of Sandhedria, a residential treatment center for youth at risk. Every year, that is, except for 2020. Coronavirus restrictions canceled the usual celebrations, including the much-anticipated Chanukah party, disappointing both the Aish Gesher students and the kids at Sanhedria.
For Aish Gesher student Avi Kroll, the experience he had the previous year with the kids was a memorable one. He befriended program director Miriam Braun and they stayed in touch. When she learned that he was back for shana bet, the second-year learning program, Braun invited him to see whether his Aish Gesher friends would like to find a different opportunity, now that the students have been
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Recently Rabbi Yosef Adler, morah d’asra of Congregation Rinat Israel, unintentionally created a controversy when he answered a shaila from a congregant about removing the word “nasi” (President) from the Prayer for the Welfare of the Government after the riots at the Capitol. Given the political reality, as Rabbi Adler viewed it, he recommended taking out the word from the prayer the Shabbos before President Biden was inaugurated and reverting back to including the word a week later, after the inauguration.