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Overseas Shlichut

KBY is renewing its ties with the Memphis community with the departure of Yehoshua Sharfman, Hillel Galizer, Joel Hagioff and Hillel Fuld to participate in the Torah Mitzion Kollel program there.

Honorees

David Saltzman, by Y.U.S.S.R.;

Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald, honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Yeshiva University

MK Zevulun Orlev, voted most successful member of the Knesset

Here and There

Rav Aharon Katz, appointed Rosh Kollel Bar Ilan;

Dr. Yair Birnbaum, appointed Head of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital;

Rav Ofer Sabo, appointed principal of Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles;

Shimmy Kanarek, appointed Chief Fellow of Cardiology at Long Island Jewish North Shore Hospital;

Rabbi Rodney Weiss, appointed Associate Rabbi at the Young Israel of Pelham Parkway;

Rav Shlomo Peretz, appointed I.D.F. Army Chaplain of Southern Command;
Rav Gabriel Amshali, of Central Command;
Rav Zev Levine, of Ground Forces Command;

Rav Shmuel Dov Rosenberg, appointed in Halacha Department and I.D.F. Yeshiva;

Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald and Rabbi Lavi Greenspan included in Jewsweek's list of fifty most influential Jews in America

Rabbi Chanina Rabinowitz, appointed Principal of Yavneh College, Melbourne

Mazal Tov

Staff

Rav Mendel Blachman, wedding of son Zvi Aryeh to Tova Diblisky

Avraham Markowitz, birth of granddaughter

Rav Binyamin Eisner, wedding of son Shalom to Bat-Sheva Zuckerman

Yossi Goldenberg (cook), twin grandsons

Rachel Krantman (office), granddaughter

Rav Kalman Ber, bar mitzvah of son Emanuel

Rav Meir Orlian, bat mitzvah of daughter Sara

Rav Moshe Stav, wedding of son Mordechai to Sara Neuman

Rav Zechariah Tubi, bar mitzvah of son Shalom

Director Eli Klein, birth of granddaughter

Rav Dovid Kav, wedding of son Shmuel Chaim to Michal Hochman

RHY Rav Mordechai Greenberg shlita, wedding of daughter Chana to Elad Eliyahu

Mashgiach Rav Avraham Rivlin shlita wedding of daughter Talia to Yonatan Pincus.

Mashgiach Rav Avraham Rivlin shlita wedding of son Harel to Naamah Altshuller.

Weddings

Yehuda Willig to Ahuva Weinberger; Elkana (son of Meir Kaisserman) to Chava Silverberg; Ehud Bar-Levi to Ashara Chai; Yisrael Frenkel to Sheva Chappeta; Daniel Hochhauser to Dina Frei; Shlomo Monderer to Sharon Bash; Mike Greenwald to Vivian Wiesel; Uri Bezalel Fischer to Chaya Yanai; Ze'ev Friedlander to Ronya Wedcliffe; Michoel Goldstein to Aviva Brody; Yosef Henig to Liat Nagler

Births of Sons to

Ari Walfish, Benjy Wolf, Avraham Willig, Refael Katz, Shalom Turgeman, Moshe Yeshurun, Chaim Gottlieb, Aharon Friedman, Dovid Fass, Moshe Greenberg, Alan Papier, Ezra Gross, Shai Valter, Dovid Fass, Eliyahu Feiner, Dr. Moshe Levy, Moshe Kabalah, Etan Orlian

Births of Daughters to

Mikey Perl, Ellie Fischer, Doron Beckerman, Jeffrey Stein, Ari Blumofe, Zevi Roness, Nachum Zitter, Shimon Abeles, Shalom Ickowitz, Geoff (Yehuda) Melnick, Asher Grossberg, Tzvi Rosby

Bar Mitzvah of

Moshe Yaakov, son of Rav Shimon Weingarten; Yomtov, son of Rav Avraham Berkowitz; Dvir, son of Rav Daniel Deutsch; Yosef Baruch Amichai, son of Mel Lifsics; Ari, son of Shalom Zimmerman; Ariel, son of Israel Bender; Benaya, son of Rav Yizchak Muler; Simcha Naftali, son of Dr. Aryeh Teitelbaum; Netanel Eliahu and Binyamin Yehuda, twin sons of Aryeh Weil

Aliyah

Yigal Segal, from Baltimore to Yerushalayim

Yechiel Eckstein, from Chicago to Yerushalayim

Rabbi Michael Fletcher, from Glasgow to Yerushalayim

Yedidya Amiel, from Antwerp to Raanana

Condolences

Rav Ahron Silver, loss of father, Rav David Silver zt"l; Shalom Fried, Mother; Howard Golding, Father; Motti Zisser, Mother; Chaim Rashi, Brother; Chaim Moore, Father; Michoel and Benji Steinbock, Mother; Michael Rhein, Brother; Yossi Kulitz, son hy"d; Moshe Elizera, father; Zachi Nebentzhal, brother hy"d; Jonathan Scheiner, father; Yechezkel Friedman, sister, along with four other members of the Schijuescherzder family killed in the Yerushalayim suicide attack at Sbarro; Leslie Mendelsohn, father; Elliot Moskowitz, father; Family of alumnus, Nisan Plotkin; David Berezin, mother;
David Libor, brother Lion who was killed during the attack on the World Trade Center. Immediately after the attack, Eli Klein contacted all alumni known to work in these builidings and in the adjacent area. Thank G-d all are well, although most can relate hair-raising experiences.
Family of alumnus Daniel Moshe Scarowsky who was killed in a traffic accident.