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Gaby Wenig

Gaby Wenig

A Retreat to Comfort Converts

Rabbi Harold Schulweis tells a joke about a Jewish man who complains to his father after marrying a convert.

Circuit

There are some new faces at UCLA. Rabbi Aryeh and Sharona Kaplan were recently hired to be the Torah educator couple for the Orthodox Union\’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC).

Rabbi Consoles Hurricane Survivors

Rabbi Isaac Jeret, president of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute (BBI), and members of Adat Israel in Naples, Fla. headed out to a Naples beach to observe Tashlich on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Everyone stared in shock before the service began.

The Circuit

When the spring mission of the Men\’s Division for Israel Bonds went to Israel in June they made a pit stop at Magen David Adom (MDA)\’s Blood Center in Ramat Gan so that all the mission participants could donate blood.

Kilmer’s Moses a Real ‘Ten’

Val Kilmer plays Moses in \”The Ten Commandments,\” the new musical version of the Exodus story, which is set to open at the Kodak Theatre on Sept. 27.

The Shofar

Davi Cheng had some trepidation when she went to Hillel for the first time. She tried to feel comfortable, but she couldn\’t understand the language of the services and the liturgical rituals were confusing.

Then she spied something unfamiliar on a bookshelf that made her feel right at home: a shofar.

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