The 5 Towns Jewish Times
December 22, 2020
By Joseph Frager, MD
Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld, of blessed memory, reached the pinnacle of rabbinical success on so many levels. He was the model pulpit rabbi. He was a major Torah scholar and posek. A snapshot of him can be found in an interview he did with Jewish Action in 2008. The following is an excerpt of his: âBasically, the changes came about with siyatta dâShamaya (help from above). Itâs the natural way of Torah to inspire people, to cause them to rethink what life is all about.â
âA rabbiâs job has also changed tremendously; (he is no longer) somebody who (just) answers occasional questions about Yaâaleh Vâyavo, Retzeih, and Al Haânissim. Today, the rabbi has to be a qualified psychiatrist, psychologist, and, above all, social worker â which is really what Moshe Rabbeinu was.â
Kodesh Press: Combining Inspiration With Rigorous Judaic Scholarship By Elizabeth Kratz | December 10, 2020
Since Rabbi Alec Goldstein launched Kodesh Press in 2013, the publishing house has brought to market more than 50 titles of Jewish interest from a growing group of approximately 30 authors. His first-ever author was Teaneck’s Rabbi Hayyim Angel, and Kodesh has since become the publisher of choice for two regular Jewish Link columnists: Mitchell First and Rabbi Gil Student. Kodesh has also published books by such luminaries as Englewood’s Rabbi Zev Reichman, Manhattan’s Rabbi Allen Schwartz and Riverdale’s Rabbi Gidon Rothstein, among many others.
Originally from New Rochelle and living now in Teaneck where Kodesh Press is currently based Goldstein received rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 2012. That followed his bachelor’s degree in French language and literature from Yeshiva
13,000 people of faith, 45 organizations reject attacks on Rev. Warnock and the Black Church
Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and her allies have attacked Black liberation theology and Rev. Raphael Warnock’s faith throughout the Georgia Senate runoff. In response, 13,292 people of faith and 45 faith-based organizations have released a letter calling these attacks an immoral, dangerous attempt to hijack religion for political gain.
The letter states in part, “As people and organizations of faith, we applaud the Rev. Raphael Warnock for preaching our shared values of nonviolence, righteousness and justice in the prophetic tradition of the Black church, following in the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his predecessor at Ebenezer Baptist Church…
by Jasmyne Keimig • Dec 17, 2020 at 2:20 pm You get a photo! And you get a photo! Elijah Nouvelage/GettyLast week, Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Georgia) who is running a hotly contested runoff campaign in her state came under fire for posing for a picture with Chester Doles, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and longtime white supremacist activist. In the photo Loeffler is pictured in a green cap, smiling next to Doles. Both are maskless.
Loeffler s campaign quickly disavowed Doles and the photo. Kelly had no idea who that was, and if she had she would have kicked him out immediately because we condemn in the most vociferous terms everything that he stands for, a campaign spokesperson told the
Kelly Loeffler at a campaign stop on 13 December. (Jessica McGowan/Getty)
Georgia Republican Kelly Loeffler insists she had “no idea” who former Ku Klux Klan leader and neo-Nazi Chester Doles was when she took a photo with him at a campaign event on Friday.
Doles spent decades as an organiser of the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazi National Alliance and served a felony sentence for almost beating a Black man to death in 1993.
He marched with a racist skinhead gang in 2017 at the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one person dead and 28 injured.
On 11 December, he posed for a smiling picture with Loeffler, the multi-millionaire Republican senator who is fighting to retain her seat in the high-stakes Georgia run-off.