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Mazal Tov to ...

Rosh Hayeshiva Rav Mordechai Greenberg, upon the birth of grandchildren, and the bar-mitzvah of grandchild.

Hamashgiach Rav Avraham Rivlin, upon the birth of grandchildren.

Rav David Kav, upon the birth of grandchildren.

Rav Binyamin Be'eri, upon the birth of a grandson.

Rav Moshe Amsalem, upon the birth of a son, and upon the bar-mitzvah of his son, Eliyahu Rephael.

Rav Shlomo Freidman, upon the birth of a son, and upon the bar-mitzvah of his son, Yosef Simcha.

Rav Aryeh Stern, upon the Bar-Mitzvah of his son, Moshe, and marriage of daughter Chagit.

Mr. Eli Klein (Director Emeritus), upon the marriage of his granddaughter, Golda Fuchs.
Rav Ari Katz, upon the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Elyasaf.

Rav Gavriel Seraf, upon the birth of a daughter.

Rav Etai Shoham, upon the birth of a son.

Rav Aharon Freidman, upon the birth of a daughter.

Rav Zvi Birnbaum, upon the marriage of his daughter, Esti.

Rabbi Marc Volk (Executive Director of American Friends of KBY), upon the birth of a grandson.

Noa Levy (office staff), upon the birth of a son.

Rivka Kornreich (Executive Assistant of American Friends), upon the marriage of her daughter, Esther, and

upon the birth of a granddaughter.

Rochel Krantman (office staff), upon the birth of a grandson.

Yaakov Yoskovitz (facilities manager), upon the birth of a granddaughter.

 

Condolences to:

Rav Ephraim Rubinstein, upon the loss of his father.

Rabbanit Puah Be'eri, upon the loss of her mother, Rabbanit Yael Bar Shaul, wife of the late Rav Elimelech Bar Shaul, one of the first Ramim at Kerem B'Yavneh, and mother-in-law of Dayan Binyamin Be'eri.

Judy Weinberger (comptroller of American Friends office), upon the loss of her sister.

From the Bookshelf

Iyunei Mikra - Bereishit , by Hamashgiach Rav Avraham Rivlin. The first in a series of seforim on Parshat

Hashavua.

Yodei Bina, vol. IV, edited by R. Shai Walter. Annual journal of the Avraham and Ruth Drazin Institute for Kiddush Hachodesh Studies.

Here and There

Rav Joshua Fass, Director of Nefesh B'Nefesh, was honored at the Israel Dinner of the OU.

David Federgrun, was selected as valedictorian of Mazer Yeshiva Program at YU.

Yehuda Feldman, appointed Student Council President of SSSB.

Rav Shimshon Klein was appointed Rav of Kehillat Kol Eliyahu in Elad, in addition to his position as IDF Rabbi at Tzrifin air base.

Rivka Kornreich, Executive Assistant of American Friends office, was recently honored together with her husband Yakov by the Young Israel of Ave J.

Rav Meir Goldwicht was Guest of Honor at the RIETS dinner.

Rav Yitzchak Kraus was appointed head of the Midrasha for Girls at Bar-Ilan University.

Rabbanim Moshe Amsalem, Zvi Birnbaum, Yishai Buchris, and Zion Luz were appointed dayanim in the Israeli Rabbinic Beit Din system.

Condolences

Akiva Silvetsky, upon the loss of his father.

Moshe Karov, upon the loss of his mother.

Rav Shabtai Zelikovitz, upon the loss of his sister.

Rav Shmuel Zussman, upon the loss of his mother.

Burton Jaffa, upon the loss of his father.

Judy Weinberger (comptroller of American Friends office), upon the loss of her sister.

Earl Harow, upon the loss of his father.

Avi, Eli, and Shlomi Azogi upon the loss of their brother.

Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider, upon the loss of his father.

Rav Shlomo Nagar, upon the loss of his sister.

Avraham Jerufi, upon the loss of his brother.

Family of Asher Langerman, upon his passing.

Family of Rav Shagar (Shimon Gershon Rosenberg), upon his passing.

Family of Chagai Ki-Tov, upon his passing.

Shlomo Nemet, upon the loss of his mother.

Family of Shlomo Kaufman, upon his passing.

Rabbi Don Well, upon the loss of his daughter.

Family of Rabbi Refoel Marcus, upon his passing, and son Rabbi Shmuel Marcus, upon the loss of his father.

Eli Helman, upon the loss of his mother.

Rav Mordechai Bar-Eli, upon the loss of his father.

Rabbi Nachum Segal, upon the loss of his father.

Rabbi Ohad Yishai, upon the loss of his father.

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