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Recently, my wife and I were looking at old photographs of rabbis from a century or so ago. One of the interesting things we noticed was that there was a tremendous variety of clothing, especially their hats. There were straw hats, derbies, homburgs, top hats and, my favorite, the Chafetz Chaim’s sort of Breton sailor’s cap. Why do we today visit a chareidi shul or yeshiva and see everyone wearing the exact same style of hat? When did this amazing level of uniformity take hold? It’s ironic that chareidi men are more exactingly uniform than I was when a soldier in the IDF. Granted I wasn’t a very impressive soldier, but still I wasn’t as precisely the same as the other so
A multi-faith community has launched a vaccine drive at the Granville Centre in Kilburn
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A multi-faith vaccination drive is taking place in South Kilburn to encourage people to get the covid jab.
Faiths Forum for London in partnership with the Al-Khoei Foundation are supporting Dr Tamara Joffe in hosting vaccine drives at the Granville Centre in Granville Road.
It is currently being run every Monday and Thursday and has coincided with the Holy Month of Ramadan.
The initiative is part of the Community Champions Project, led by the Ostro Fayre Share Foundation, which aims to encourage people to take up the vaccine and debunk any myths and misinformation within local communities.
By Riki Goldstein March 17, 2021
I have to find the right balance of two styles, mixing and matching so everyone will be happy
When it comes to creating a simchah that the chassan and kallah will truly enjoy, Bucky Gluck an effervescent soloist popular on the wedding circuit across the U.K., Europe, and Israel who leads the Manchester-based Sameach choir, has a tried-and-true method: “I always sit down with them before the big day to get a feel for which styles they like. Sometimes parents want something else entirely, and I have to find the right balance of two styles, mixing and matching so everyone will be happy.”
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