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Monday, November 20 LIVE AT SONY HALL / 6:30PM 235 WEST 46TH STREET BETWEEN 7TH AND 8TH AVENUESNEW YORK CITY Cocktails and light fare will be served. Announcing The Gabel & Straus Campus at Kfar Batya Dedicated by JOYCE & DANIEL STRAUS Celebrating the success of The Tiferet Gur Aryeh Junior College Dedicated by Ellen…

Summer Student Spotlight AMIT Eitan High School for Boys, Ma’ale Adumim

Recently, a very special siyum of a masechet of Gemara was held in Ma’ale Adumim. The siyum was held at the “Makom BaLev” Orthodox Union Youth Center by students from AMIT Eitan High School for Boys in Ma’aleh Adumim. The students, alumni of the center and recent high school graduates, were the founders of the shiur. This is the second year of the shiur led by Rav Ayal Mamon, counselor at the youth center, and he explained: “This isn’t just another shiur that you come to pass the time.

The Redemption of Pesach

Hasidic thinkers write about the exile of Egypt as an exile of speech, an exile of the word. This exile was personified in Moshe who calls himself both “kevad peh u’kevad lashon” as well as “aral sefatayim.” Hasidic writers view Moshe’s speech impediment as reflecting a wider phenomenon – the exile of speech. Redemption, correspondingly,…