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With graduation season in high gear, many people have the opportunity to reflect on their own college experiences and how alumni are stakeholders in their institutions. Mark Banschick, of the Young Israel of Stamford, is a proud graduate of Vassar College. Banschick was unhappy when he discovered that, in 2014, Vassar was hosting an Israel Apartheid Week, depicting Israel as a racist country. Banschick, who attended medical school in Israel, is very attached to the country. He, along with fellow graduates Laurie Josephs and Susan Julien-Levitt are the co-founders of Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF), a partner of StandWithUs, that mobilizes alumni to improve campus life.
Read the full article On Sunday, May 5, the Young Israel of Stamford (YIS) held a unique Hachnasat Sefer Torah. This ceremony usually marks the completion of a new Torah scroll. However, this Torah was completed 130 years ago and has a special history. As part of a Yom HaShoah commemoration, the Stamford community joined Rabbi Kohl and his wife’s family as they welcomed this Torah to YIS. The rainy weather could not hold back over 200 community members, families and guests from attending this simcha and dancing around the bima with this Torah.
Read the full article Stamford community member Marc Weiner created and hosted the ’90s children’s television series “Weinerville.” It premiered in July 1993 and ended production a year later, but continued to be shown in reruns until June 1997. The show was set around a giant puppet stage of a mythical city called Weinerville.
Read the full article There is a well-known minhag to bake schlissel challahs for the Shabbat following Pesach. Schlissel is the Yiddish word for key. Some challah bakers have a tradition of shaping their challah in the shape of a key while others simply implant a key to their homes into their challah dough. Either way, it is intended as a good-luck symbol for economic success.
Read the full article Rabbi Shimmy Trencher has been appointed principal of the Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy-Upper School (BCHA) in Stamford, Connecticut, it was announced recently by the school’s President David Pikoff and Head of School Jacqueline Herman.
Read the full article The arrival of spring marks the beginning of the 2019 baseball season. The Fairfield County Connecticut Jewish Baseball League (FCCJBL) existed for 20 years, but closed in 2015 due to lack of participation. However, the influx of young Jewish families into Stamford over the past few years has brought the league back.
Read the full article For the past year, Stamford resident Rabbi David Israel has served as the executive vice-president of the Religious Zionists of America. The RZA is the US branch of the worldwide Mizrachi-HaPoel HaMizrachi movement.
Read the full article Dr. Jeff Cahn from Stamford, Connecticut, recently volunteered in Israel’s only free dental clinic — Dental Volunteers for Israel (DVI). He was able to treat quite a few patients and had some interesting experiences.
Read the full article Rabbi Daniel Cohen would like all of us to find our “Elijah Moment.”
A rabbi, author and inspirational speaker, Rabbi Cohen is well-positioned to help change the world, one person at a time. And this is what Rabbi Cohen does with wisdom, authenticity, humor and humanity. Since 2005, Rabbi Cohen has served as the senior rabbi of Congregation Agudath Sholom of Stamford, Connecticut, the largest modern Orthodox synagogue in New England. In addition, he is a writer, a co-host of the radio show “The Rabbi and the Reverend,” and lectures throughout the country, delivering insights and inspiration about living an enlightened, meaningful life. Read the full article Beginning in December 1996, a small group of members of Congregation Agudath Sholom, (CAS) in Stamford, Connecticut, embarked on a seven and a half year schedule to learn all 2,711 pages of the Talmud at the rate of one page per day. A former member named David Cohen organized and inaugurated Stamford’s first formal Daf Yomi program at CAS. In over two decades, this group has nearly completed its third rotation of the Daf Yomi cycle. However, since its inception, this worldwide learning program is actually in its 12th cycle, with its next siyum to be held in 2020.
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June 2019
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