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Jewish Observer
''The Jewish Observer'' was an American Orthodox Jewish magazine published by the Agudath Israel of America, from 1963 until 2009. It was put on "hiatus" in 2009, with plans to restart once the finances of the magazine, affected by the economic crisis, were figured out. As of 2019, it has not published any new issues since its 2009 hiatus. The magazine generally presented a ''haredi'' viewpoint. Published since 1963, it was printed nine months a year; the January and February issues were combined, and there were no issues in July or August. The magazine's website contains downloadable PDF copies of most issues while the website of the Lefkowitz Leadership Institute contains PDF files of every single issue since 1963. It was founded by Ernst L. Bodenheimer and Moshe Sherer, and the Editor for the first seven seasons was Nachman Bulman and from then until it ended publication was Nisson Wolpin. Contributors to the Jewish Observer included Avi Shafran, Zalman I. Posner, Mendel We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisson Wolpin
Nisson Wolpin was an Orthodox rabbi and (1932-2017), renowned for being the editor of The Jewish Observer. He also served as the learning director of Camp Munk for many summers. Early life Rabbi Wolpin was born in 1932 in Seattle, Washington to Bentzion and Kaila Wolpin. His parents, immigrants from Europe, lost 13 of their 15 children to childhood diseases prior to their coming to the United States. During his formative years, Seattle didn't have any fit Jewish schools for him to attend, and he therefore had no other option other than attending a local public school. Like his three brothers, he attended a Talmud Torah in the afternoon. At age 15 he was sent to Yeshiva Torah Vodaath. Wolpin was one of "a small cadre of talmidim" selected by Gedaliah Schorr to be students at a Los Angeles-based yeshiva founded in 1952 by Simcha Wasserman. Career During his adult years as a married man, Rabbi Wolpin served as a ''rebbi'' (teacher of Torah) at Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael in Queens, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mendel Weinbach
Chona Menachem Mendel (Mendel) Weinbach (September 24, 1933 – December 11, 2012) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, educator, author, and speaker. As the co-founder and dean of Ohr Somayach Institutions, a Jerusalem-based yeshiva for newly-observant Jewish men, he was considered one of the fathers of the modern-day baal teshuva movement. Early life Chona Menachem Mendel Weinbach was born in Kańczuga, Galicia, to Yechezkel Shraga and Tshezye Genendel Weinbach.Marks, Yehudah. "Harav Mendel Weinbach, ''zt"l'', Rosh Yeshivas Ohr Somayach". ''Hamodia'', 13 December 2012, p. A20. At the age of 4 he immigrated with his parents to America and settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he grew up. At age 12 he left home to learn in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, where he studied under Rabbis Yaakov Kamenetsky and Gedalia Schorr.Heimowitz, Rabbi Yehuda. "The Long Short Road: How Rav Mendel Weinbach ''ztz"l'' led thousands on the journey of a lifetime". ''Mishpacha'', December 19, 2012. He receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Magazines Published In The United States
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, "Historically, the religious and ethnic dimensions of Jewish identity have been closely interwoven. In fact, so closely bound are they, that the traditional Jewish lexicon hardly distinguishes between the two concepts. Jewish religious practice, by definition, was observed exclusively by the Jewish people, and notions of Jewish peoplehood, nation, and community were suffused with faith in the Jewish God, the practice of Jewish (religious) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Magazines Published In The United States
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Yakov Horowitz
Rabbi Yakov Horowitz is an Orthodox rabbi, author, educator and advocate from Monsey, New York. Early life Horowitz was born to Shloime and Beile Horowitz. His father died when he was three years old. He was raised in a Haredi family in Belle Harbor, New York. He studied in yeshivas including Mesivta Torah Vodaath. He developed a closed relationship with Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Pam. Career In 1982, Horowitz began teaching eighth grade boys in Borough Park, Brooklyn and later in Monsey, New York. In 1996, based on his experience as a teacher, he wrote a 4,500 word essay in ''The Jewish Observer'' titled “An Ounce of Prevention” on the subject of at-risk teens in the community. The article shocked the Orthodox community and led to an invitation to address the 1996 National Conventions of Agudath Israel of America and Torah Umesorah. It also led to the founding of Project Y.E.S. in 1997, which he is the director of. In 1997, Horowitz founded a yeshiva, Yeshiva Darchei Noam, for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzchok Adlerstein
Yitzchok Adlerstein (born 1950 in New York) is an Orthodox rabbi. He is the co-founder of ''Cross-Currents'', an online journal of Orthodox Jewish thought, and regularly contributes to that site. He is on the editorial board of ''Klal Perspectives'', an online journal of issues facing the Orthodox community. Career Adlerstein served in an advisory and honorary position as one of the founding trustees of the Association for Jewish Outreach Programs (AJOP, known at the time as The Association for Jewish Outreach Professionals), delivering lectures and workshops to Orthodox Jewish outreach rabbis. Adlerstein studied and received his advanced rabbinical ordination from the Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim in New York. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Queens College, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Adlerstein is the director of Interfaith Affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He holds the Sydney M. Irmas Adjunct Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics at Loyola Law School and teaches senior hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Fryshman
Bernard Fryshman is a physics professor at the New York Institute of Technology since 1963 and the executive vice president of the Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools since 1973. He served two terms on the predecessor to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, the body that advises U.S. Department of Education on issues related to higher education accreditation and institutional eligibility for federal student aid programs. Biography Bernard Fryshman was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at the New York University. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' .... References External links 2013 Paley Award Citation: Bernard Fryshman, Executive Vice Presid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Rosenblum
Jonathan (Yonason) Rosenblum (born 1951) is the director, spokesperson, and founder of Jewish Media Resources, an organization which attempts to clarify journalists' understanding of Haredi Jewish society. Jonathan is related to the well known Rannels family of talmudic scholars. Career Rosenblum is a graduate of the University of Chicago (AB 1973), Yale Law School, and Ohr Somayach's main branch in Jerusalem. Although once a self-identified Conservative Jew, he is now a ''Haredi'' ("ultra-Orthodox") journalist who writes for many publications. These include columns in the modern ''Haredi'' magazine ''Mishpacha''; ''Litvish'' ''Haredi'' weekly '' Yated Neeman''; Hasidic ''Haredi'' daily ''Hamodia''; the mainstream Israeli weekly ''Maariv''; the Jerusalem Post; the ''Baltimore Jewish Times''; the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America's journal ''Jewish Action''; and the English edition of Agudath Israel of America's journal, the ''Jewish Observer''. He is a found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Twerski
Aaron D. Twerski (born May 1939) is an American lawyer and professor. He is the Irwin and Jill Cohen Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, as well as a former Dean and professor of tort law at Hofstra University School of Law. Early and personal life He is a scion of the Chernobyl, Chabad, Sanz, and Bobov Hasidic dynasties. He and his twin brother Rabbi Michel Twerski were the youngest sons of Rabbi Jacob Israel Twerski (1899–1973) and Rebbetzin Dvorah Leah Twerski (1900–1995). He was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where his father was the rabbi of Congregation Beth Jehudah. Aaron Twerski is the younger brother of the late Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski (1930–2021), a psychiatrist and author of 55 books on Judaism and self-image. His twin brother is now the rabbi of Congregation Beth Jehudah. He has been married to Kreindel Twerski since 1960. They live in Brooklyn, New York. Education Twerski has an A.B. in Talmudic Law from Beth Medrash Elyon Talmudic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nosson Scherman
Nosson Scherman ( he, נתן שרמן, born 1935, Newark, New Jersey) is an American Haredi rabbi best known as the general editor of ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications. Early life Scherman was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, where his parents ran a small grocery store. He attended public school, but in the afternoons joined a Talmud Torah started in 1942 by Rabbi Shalom Ber Gordon, a shaliach of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn.Horowitz, Rebbetzin Faigie. "A Nostalic Look at Jewish Newark". ''Hamodia'' Magazine, 28 June 2012, pp. 14– 18. Rabbi Gordon influenced many of the 200 boys in his afternoon Talmud Torah to enroll in yeshiva, including young Nosson Scherman, who became a dormitory student at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas at around age 10. Afterwards, he studied in Beth Medrash Elyon in Spring Valley, New York Scherman worked as a rabbi (teacher) for about eight years at Torah VoDaas of Flatbush, later known as Yeshiva Torah Temimah. Afterwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zalman I
Zalman Tech Co. (usually simplified as ZALMAN) is a South Korean company that develops and provides aftermarket desktop computer products with primary focus on cooling enhancement. Zalman has done considerable product development since its founding in January 1999, and now holds several patents focusing on both cooling and fan noise-reduction. Personal computer systems can generate significant heat and noise, the management of which is important for those modifying or assembling computer systems. Zalman's product range includes specialized heat sink and fan solutions for CPUs, as well as quiet power supplies, computer water cooling systems, motherboard chipset coolers, graphics card heat sink and fan combos, laptop coolers, cases, and hard disk cases that lower temperature and reduce noise. Zalman's primary competitors include Antec, Thermaltake, Spire, Cooler Master and Arctic. Zalman has also developed a completely fanless case. It uses a fin based design to dissipate heat w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agudath Israel Of America
Agudath Israel of America ( he, אגודת ישראל באמריקה) (also called Agudah) is an American organization that represents Haredi Orthodox Jews. It is loosely affiliated with the international World Agudath Israel. Agudah seeks to meet the needs of the Haredi community, advocates for its religious and civil rights, and services its constituents through charitable, educational, and social service projects across North America. Functions Agudah serves as a leadership and policy umbrella organization for Haredi Jews in the United States, representing the vast majority of members of the yeshiva world, sometimes known by the old label of '' misnagdim'', as well as a large number of Hasidic groups. However, not all Hasidic groups are affiliated with Agudath Israel. For example, the Hasidic group Satmar, which is vehemently anti-Zionist, dislikes Agudah's relatively moderate stance towards the State of Israel.Jonathan Rosenblum, "Reb Elimelech Gavriel (Mike) Tress", in No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
