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Winter 2013(5774) 5774

In this issue
A Dairy Delicious Chanukah/Hannukah
Chanukah

A Dairy Delicious Chanukah/Hannukah

Whether you spell it Chanukah or Hannukah, this festive winter holiday is associated with all sorts of latkes, sufganiyot and fried foods to celebrate the miracle of a small amount of oil miraculously lasting for eight days. The tradition of eating dairy dishes, particularly cheese, did not become popular until the Middle Ages. The story […]

Motown’s Orthodox Revival
Jewish World

Motown’s Orthodox Revival

You would never know Detroit went bankrupt by the looks of two thriving frum communities close to the city. Oak Park and Southfield keep drawing scores of frum families to the area—and it seems like there’s no letting up. Growth from Within Shuls and communities must grow organically; in other words, the local Orthodox population […]

Rebuilding Oceanside In the Aftermath of Sandy
Jewish World

Rebuilding Oceanside In the Aftermath of Sandy

  Hurricane Sandy left the Oceanside, New York community, on the southern shore of Long Island, with many of its homes devastated and the Young Israel of Oceanside in shambles. The other shuls in Oceanside, Congregation Shaar Hashamayim, Darchei Noam and the Chabad of Oceanside, also suffered extensive damages. This past Rosh Hashanah, the 200-member […]

Rabbi Dr. Isaiah Wohlgemuth: A Beloved Teacher of Tefillah
Education

Rabbi Dr. Isaiah Wohlgemuth: A Beloved Teacher of Tefillah

In the American Modern Orthodox community, the widely acknowledged master of teaching tefillah was a Holocaust refugee from Germany who made a new home in Boston. Rabbi Isaiah Wohlgemuth, who had semichah from Berlin’s Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary and a doctorate in education from Boston’s now-defunct Calvin Coolidge College, is remembered by generations of students from […]

From the Ground Up: Growing Torah in the Garden State
Jewish World

From the Ground Up: Growing Torah in the Garden State

A trio of resourceful rabbis discovered the winning recipe to creating a frum community from scratch. They identified regions where Jews were plentiful but Judaism was scarce, and employed the motto “Give them Torah and they will come.” It worked. South Jersey’s spiritual transformation began with three modern-day pioneers who set out to teach Torah […]

Conversing with Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein
People

Conversing with Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein

From Johannesburg Shall Go Forth Torah  South Africa’s first native chief rabbi, who is successfully strengthening Yiddishkeit on the home front, has gone global with a worldwide learning program. Despite its relatively small size—an estimated population of 70,000—the South African Jewish community is thriving religiously. While the community is mostly traditional, it boasts a burgeoning […]