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Prayer Babies

Someone must speak up for the single mothers, the unemployed, the elderly on social security, the families in the Jewish Community experiencing financial difficulties in these horrible times.

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Every day of that pregnancy I asked to be blessed with a "healthy and whole baby," and I often visited the Western Wall with a prayer book and a full package of tissues.

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We reasoned that this fellow just came out from one of those Sunday services where they were reading the Bible which is all about the Jews.

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Who Are the Jewish Community?

There is an interesting ad which appears about once a month in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal. It is placed by the Jewish Journal itself. The ad is addressed to potential advertisers and touts the high-end nature of the Journal's readers. The ad boasts that the Journal's readers on average attend at least one concert or play monthly, eat out at least three times a week, and go to a museum at least once a month, certainly a good justification for theaters, orchestras, restaurants, and museums to advertise in the Journal. The ad next discusses the average household income of the Journal readers. The ad states that the reader's average income is $296,300 yearly.

We could debate whether $296,300 is the mean (the average of all incomes), the median (where half of the Jewish households earn more and half earn less), or the mode (the most common level of household income). However, I don’t care whether one uses the mean, the median, or the mode. $296,300 is not the average household income of the Jewish community in Los Angeles!

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Who does constitute the Jewish Community of Los Angeles? There are single mothers in the Jewish Community struggling to make ends meet. There are seniors on fixed income. There are hundreds, even thousands of unemployed, without any income. There are college and graduate students. There are young marrieds. None of these groups has an average household income approaching the average income reported of the Jewish Journal reader.

Jewish day schools talk about as many as half of their students (and in some cases more) being on scholarship as the families do not have an adequate income. Clearly, tens of thousands of Jewish households make far less than $100,000. When the Jewish Journal boasts of the average income of readers as $296,300, they are really boasting that few in the Jewish community actually read the newspaper, as those who would average $296,300 income would only represent a small fraction of the community. Why would anyone brag that no one reads their newspaper? Do they even understand the implications of a info@communitylinks.info

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newspaper that was established with community funds and which solicits donations from the community, but which fails to attract the average Jewish adults as readers?

The elitism of the Jewish Journal goes beyond the readership. The average Jewish family in Los Angeles strongly supports the Israeli government. But the Jewish Journal editorial staff seems to feel that for each article in support of Israel’s government, there must be another article published by an individual or group against Israeli governmental policy. The articles published often serve only the interests of the elite in the community, the readership which averages $296,300 household income. The Jewish Journal often features pictures of the major donors to the Federation, pictures of the big donors with a guest or featured speaker at an event. Such pictures are not of interest to the vast majority in the community who need not pictures of those who give $10,000 or more, but rather need articles explaining why the $50 they can afford to give is needed and makes a difference.

By targeting only those who average $296,300 in income, the Jewish Journal gives up any right to present itself as the Jewish publication of Los Angeles.

My fear is that the leaders of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles suffer from the same myopia as the Jewish Journal editors. As I discussed in a previous article, the Federation canceled support for the largest, most popular event in Jewish L.A., the Israel Day Festival, while apparently spending the thousands saved through the cancelation of the contribution to the Israel Day Festival on the promotion and advertising of a Centennial trip to Israel for the wealthy Jews of L.A. Widespread readership does not seem to matter for the Jewish Journal. Activities with tens of thousands of Jewish (and non-Jewish) participants do not seem to matter with the Federation.

It is often easier to get 100 donations of $1000 than 1000 donations of $100. However, when you recruit the $100 donor among young marrieds, for example, you develop the $500 and $1000 givers of tomorrow. By overlooking the real average Jewish households, the Federation loses future support for Israel and the community.

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Just as the Jewish Journal wants a “fair and balanced” approach to Israel reflected in diverse articles about Israel, the Federation wants a “fair and balanced” list of speakers at community events and rallies. Last year, after the Flotilla catastrophe, the Federation held a rally actually featuring speakers in support of the cause of the Flotilla.

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ments they perceived to be offensive to the entire assembly of protesters, Federation representatives went to the mike to demand respect for the different views being espoused. Politically correct acceptance of all views seems much more important to the Federation than rallying on behalf of the Israeli government.

Does the Federation hold, like the Jewish Journal, that the average family in the Jewish Community attends at least one play or concert monthly? Most can no longer even afford to consider going to a Dodger game with the $68 per ticket cost to sit far out in left or right field all the way down the foul line at Dodger games. Certainly, the majority of Jewish families in Los Angeles do not eat out in a full service restaurant three times weekly.

The Jewish Journal is out of touch. So is the Federation.

And the Jews of Los Angeles suffer as a result.

The most recent version of the Jewish Journal ad mentioned in this article, a full-page ad on the front inside cover of the publication, contains the following statement directed at potential advertisers: “The Jewish Journal presents an opportunity for you to reach an affluent, educated and cultured readership.” This newspaper set up originally with community funds and which continues to receive financial support and key donations from major donors in the Jewish Community benefits from the publication being read only by a restricted readership. The Journal’s attraction to advertisers is admittedly the high brow nature of its readership. The newspaper gains when the publication is read primarily by the families who frequent theaters and the Philharmonic, who eat out three times weekly, and who make on average well over a quarter of a million dollars a year. If the Jewish Journal were read not by the high and mighty but rather by the entire community as a whole, the argument in favor of advertising articulated in the publication would disappear. The audience would not be “affluent.” The publication seems to prefer only the “educated and cultured,” in an elitist statement that belittles the masses and betrays the very purpose that the led to the creation of the Jewish Journal 25 years ago as a Jewish Community newspaper which would reach the entire community.

Two Jewish newspapers served the Los Angeles market 25 years ago when the Federation poured resources into the creation of the Jewish Journal. The two other papers subsequently went out of business as they could not compete with the community-supported Jewish Journal publication. No competition to the Jewish Journal exists today. We went from two community-based newspapers serving the entire community to a seemingly elitist organ for the well-to-do and “educated” and “cultured.”

How did community resources go to develop a publication mainly for the rich and the privileged? How did a publication developed for the community as a whole go so far astray?

What worries this author is that the siphoning of community resources away from the Jewish Community as a whole to benefit those who need these resources the least seems to be occurring not just with the community’s newspaper. The decision process of the Federation itself as a whole seems to lead to a siphoning of resources away from the whole community toward smaller projects enjoyed by only the wealthy few. Small elitist organizations articulating positions that many see as against the State of Israel are given equal voice to positions of the more mainline Zionist groups that represent the entire community.

Both the Jewish Journal and the Federation appear to be taking on positions away from the interests of the general community and favoring the rich few.

Someone must speak up for the single mothers, the unemployed, the elderly on social security, the families in the Jewish Community experiencing financial difficulties in these horrible times. Community resources should support the needs of the entire community and not just promote the “affluent.”

Maybe someone at the Jewish Journal has the sensitivity to put a stop to the insulting ads that mock the general Jewish population. Maybe there are voices at the Federation which can redirect the community’s resources back toward those in need and away from primarily serving the privileged. We can hope. •

Robert J. Rome, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in clinical practice in Encino, California.

He can be reached at RJRome@aol.com.

Editor’s note:The opinions expressed in this article are the views of the author of the article and not necessarily the views of Community Links.

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Forty-Two journeys are described in much the same way over and over again. The verse tells us from where they departed and where they settled next. Each time they are described as having departed the last place they had encamped. It seems superfluous to repeat the point of departure. Why does the Torah tell us from where they left each time?

We find a similar construction when Yaakov started his travels. The verse states, “And Yaakov went out from Be’er Sheva and went to Charan…” (Breishis 28:10) Rashi wonders, “It was only necessary to write that “Yaakov went to Charan”. Why mention his going out? This teaches that when a Tzadik leaves a place he leaves an impression.” With this we can understand the import of our journeys.

It was a Sunday morning. My wife and I had just spent a glorious Shabbos in Boston. We had two little boys in tow. We decided to travel north to visit Newburyport Mass. where my great grandfather lived most of his adult life and where I remember visiting him.

Entering the city we found only strip malls. I was sure they had already “paved paradise and put up a parking lot”. Then like out of a time warp, there it was; the cobble stone street, the lake, the old court house, and a civil war cannon.

As we stood there surveying the area a gentleman approached us and asked, “Are you people-Chassidim?”

I told him, “No! We’re just ordinary folk.” He persisted, “Is there a convention going on?” I thought to myself, “Four Jews is a convention. Five would be an

incursion, and six would already be an occupation.” I told him, “No! My great grandfather lived here after coming from Russia. He built that Synagogue down the block and his house is there across the street. I’m here to show my children where their great-great grandfather lived, worked, and prayed.” The man stood at attention. Real tears streamed down his cheeks and with a quivering voice he declared, “When I see how you people keep your traditions from generation to generation you are truly G-d’s chosen people.” He backed up respectfully into in the day and disappeared.

My wife and I were stunned. What was that about?

We reasoned that this fellow just came out from one of those Sunday services where they were reading the Bible which is all about the Jews. However, when they look at the news they are surprised to find out how often those who seem to be the descendants of the ones mentioned in “the book” represent causes that countermand the values of “the book”. Something’s wrong with this picture! Behold, onto the Mall in Newburyport, Mass. strides a family looking hauntingly authentic, with Yarmulkas, and Tsitsis, and other dead giveaways. I’m not saying that I am the paragon of virtue but something must have struck him. The “People of the Book” suddenly appear with a loyalty to “the book” and all is confirmed true. We just walked out of the Bible, and stepped down from Mt. Sinai, the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, witnesses to the giving of the Torah and all of human history. So it is written, “You are my witnesses, says HASHEM” (Isaiah 43:10).

A friend of mine who just came back from Niagara Falls reported to me that more people were staring at and taking pictures of him and his family than of the falls. I believe it. After all, which is the bigger wonder?

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But the Torah defines Moshe's rebuke by confining it to a specific time frame. The Torah tells us that only "after smiting Sichon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, did Moshe begin explaining this Torah (rebuke) to them."

(Deuteronomy 1:4) The fact that the Torah makes a point of stating that the reproofs occurred only after Moshe smote two powerful enemies has obvious connotations. Rashi explains: "if the Jews were to say, 'what has Moshe done for us? Has he brought us into the Land? How does he have the right to rebuke us?' Moshe thus waited until the defeat of the last two major enemies before rebuking the nation."

Reb Mendel Kaplan (1913-1985) was a Rebbe at the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia from 1965 until he passed away. In the later years, he would conduct an early morning class with a select group of students. He would study with them Daas Chachma U'Mussar, the magnum opus of his Rebbe, Rabbi Yeruchum Levovitz, the Mashgiach of the Mirrer Yeshiva of Europe and later Shanghai. Each day the group would meet before Shacharis (morning prayers) and listen to their elderly Rebbe discuss deep philosophical issues concerning the nature of man and the profound eternal struggle he faces.

One night a heavy snow covered the streets of Philadelphia. As the boys trudged into the classroom they were dazzled by the view of the dawn breaking over the white blanket that softly covered the frozen ground. But an even more amazing sight beheld then inside the classroom. Rav Mendel was at sitting at his desk wearing his boots, gloves, and an overcoat that was as warm as his expression.

"Today we will learn the real Mussar (ethics)," he smiled.

"Don't take off your boots and coats." He closed the large tome on his desk and pointed to six shovels neatly stacked in the corner of the classroom.

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Moshe is saying his last good-byes to his beloved nation.

He stands at Israel's border and reviews forty years of trials and tribulations, the good times and the bad, and how his nation Israel matured to become the inheritor of the Promised Land. The first verse in this week's portion alludes to the ensuing topics of discussion. The Golden Calf, the incident with the spies, and the time when Israel faltered at the idol Ba'al Pe'or are amongst the many issues that are re-examined.

With that, he took a shovel, walked outside, and began to lead the boys in shoveling a path from the dormitories to the Bais Medrash where the entire school would soon conduct their morning prayers.

Moshe knew that for forty years he had admonished his nation on issues of faith, trust in Hashem, and belief in the prophets. He had put his honor on the line, as he constantly defended their misdeeds. He prayed for them as they battled with Amalek and prayed for them when G-d's wrath was upon them. But he had yet to do physical battle.

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Childbearing proceeded like clockwork for us. I had three daughters in quick succession, with a space of exactly two years between each birth.

But Moriah, my fourth child, was different. After my third daughter was born, I became pregnant, and was scheduled once again to give birth on my third's daughter's second birthday.

And then for the first time in my life, I miscarried.

The time between my miscarriage and the start of my pregnancy with Moriah were among the saddest months of my life. I grieved for that lost baby that I would never be a mother to, and each month that passed was accompanied by the same stabbing sense of loss that I experienced that terrible winter day when I

tom of the slide, over my evenings spent returning phone calls and washing down the kitchen counters.

I have never prayed in my life like I prayed during those months to get pregnant again.

The day that I found out I was pregnant with Moriah, I turned to G-d with thanks and sobbed with joy.

Every day of that pregnancy I asked to be blessed with a "healthy and whole baby," and I often visited the Western Wall with a prayer book and a full package of tissues. By the time I headed home, the package was nearly empty.

In the end, we named our fourth daughter Moriah, in honor of Mount Moriah where the Western Wall is lo-

Moriah is a special baby for me.

While I have always believed that the birth of every healthy child is a gift from G-d, the intensity of my prayers as I awaited Moriah transformed me into a person who feels the truth of this miracle in every ounce of my being. To this day, my awareness that this little girl is a gift from G-d pulsates through my connection with her.

The eight months following that miscarriage, though traumatic for me, were a blip compared with the suffering of one in seven married women, who statistically, could be afflicted at one point in their marriages with infertility. These are women who struggle with treatment after treatment, year after year, and even decade after

actually miscarried.

During that time, my loss cast a shadow over every moment of my life, over my mornings spent writing, over my afternoons in the park catching my giggling daughters at the bot-

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cated. We named her Moriah in honor of the yearning and tears and prayer that poured out of me at that holy place, and which filled the months leading up to Moriah's conception and her long-anticipated birth.

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suffocating person who gasps for oxygen.

Yet my experience, however short-lived, managed to open my eyes to these women who often suffer in silence.

Since that miscarriage, I have kept a list of childless women that I pray for, from my community and from all over the world. And every year, always to my amazement, I cross two or three childless-womenturned-mothers off my list.

When I meet these long-awaited babies, who fly into the world on the tail of thousands upon thousands of prayers, they have a special glow about them. These are children who are equal parts flesh, blood, tears, and longing. These are prayer babies.

These are babies like six-monthold Hodaya. Hodaya was born after five years of marriage, three years of fertility treatments, and a highrisk pregnancy that was spent largely in a hospital bed.

Or like Tehila, who was born two months premature and spent six weeks in an incubator. I prayed for this precious little girl every single day. Every new baby I see makes me smile. But when I met Tehila for the first time yesterday, sleeping in her baby carriage, she gave me goosebumps.

These are babies like eight-monthold Raphael. Five years ago, Raphael's mother gave birth to a sick baby girl who tragically died several hours after she was born. It took Raphael's mother two years to become pregnant again, and that pregnancy also ended tragically in a second-trimester miscarriage. A

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year later, Raphael was conceived.

You pray for your children, that

Usually, when I receive a mass email announcing a birth I forward it to my husband, and reply with a hasty email wishing "Mazal Tov!" When I received the email about Raphael, I wept. Then I called his mother, still woozy from the birth, on her cellphone to hear all about it.

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To me, these children represent the ultimate picture of hope.

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Every baby is a miracle, but the heartfelt prayers that went into every one of these prayer babies makes us see that they are miracles.

Our prayers for them open up our eyes, and enable us to see these children for what they really are. For what all children are.

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That is the gift of prayer.

On Rosh Hashanah we read the stories of three barren women, Sarah, Rachel, and Hanna. It is their stories of longing for their own prayer babies that should inspire us through this pivotal week leading up to Yom Kippur.

Why are infertile women such a central theme of the High Holidays? Because there are few people in the world who will ever pray with the intensity of a woman who yearns for a child.

These great women teach us how the power of prayer can transform a woman into a matriarch, and a child into a leader of the Jewish people. Prayer accomplishes this, in large part, by clarifying what is truly important.

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will do good things. That they should be the kind of Jews who throughout their lives will create a great light to illuminate the darkness.

Prayer babies are so precious beour eyes to realize that these chilby the Master of the Universe.

During the days leading up to Yom Kippur and on the holiest day of the year itself, let us continue in the tradition of our matriarchs, and pray for our own children like we never have before. And let us pray for those who have yet to have their own children. And let us give strength to those who wonder if they ever will.

But most importantly, let us pray so that we will discover the prayer babies in our own homes, whether they are a month old, or four years old, or thirty-four years old.

Whether they were conceived after a decade of fertility treatments, or by their parents' first anniversary.

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ewish tradition exhorts us to properly mourn the passing of a loved one, and sets the practices and rituals that facilitate and give expression to our feelings of loss and grief. At the same time, however, it establishes a sequence of time frames through which the intensity of our mourning is progressively mitigated, from the most intense mourning that is observed in the hours after a death, to the seven-day "shivah" observed following the burial, to the 30day shloshim period, and so on.

In other words, we must mourn, but we must also set boundaries to our mourning. To not mourn at all, or to plunge into an abyss of grief and remain trapped on its bottom--both these extremes are detrimental, both to the living and to the soul of the departed. Mourning is a show of re-

ous life, in which their feelings of love and veneration translate into deeds that honor the departed soul and attest to its continuing influence in our world.

These five phases of mourning also correspond with the stages of the soul's "ascent," as it gradually disengages from the material world and assumes a less palpable--though no less real--presence in our lives.

The world was created with humanity as its focus. This took a full cycle of time: seven days. When creation is reversed and the human soul returns to its source, that, too, is marked with a week's cycle: the Shivah, seven days which the closest relatives devote exclusively to mourning the soul's departure, and the extended family, friends and community comfort them with their presence, their empathy,

"At first glance, the connection between the mourner to whom these words are directed and the mourners of Jerusalem's destruction appears to be quite puzzling. In truth, however, they are connected. For the main consolation embodied by this phrase is in its inner content. Namely, that just as the grief over Zion and Jerusalem is common to all the sons and daughters of our people, Israel, wherever they may be... so is the grief of a single individual Jew or Jewish family shared by the entire nation. For, as the Sages have taught, all of the Jewish people comprise one integral organism...

"A second point: ...just as G-d will most certainly rebuild the ruins of Zion and Jerusalem and gather the dispersed of Israel from the ends of the earth through our righteous

Soul Talk The shivah and other mourning observances spect to the departed and to his or her place in our lives, as well as a crucial stage in the healing of those who experienced the loss. But the soul of the departed does not desire that those remaining in this world remain paralyzed by grief. On the contrary, the soul's greatest benefit comes from its loved ones' return to active, even joy-

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and their words of consolation.

The traditional words spoken to the mourner during Shivah are: "May G‑d console you, together with all mourners of Zion and Jerusalem." In a letter to a father who lost his young child, the Lubavitcher Rebbe writes:

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Moshiach, so will He, without a doubt, remove the grief of the individual, fulfilling the promise embodied by the verse, 'Awaken and sing, you who repose in the dust.' Great will be the joy, the true joy, when all will be rejoined at the time of the Resurrection of the Dead...."

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The following story is told of the great French leader, Napoleon Bonaparte. He once was traveling through a small Jewish town in Europe. He entered a synagogue. There he saw an incredible sight. Men and women weeping. They were sitting on the floor on small stools holding candles while reading from books. The synagogue had an elaborate chandelier but only a few candles were lit. If not for the small candle lights the magnificent synagogue would have been in complete darkness. It was a gloomy and sad sight to behold.

Some escaped and built their homes world over. Somehow the Jewish people exist without their country and their Temple.

In order to commemorate these sad events they gather once a year in synagogue. There they fast, pray, and read sad prophetic writings concerning the destruction of their Temple and land. What we see in this town is happening in all Jewish communities.

Napoleon inquired as to how many years have they been doing this and was over 2000 years. Upon hearing

MOURNING AND YEARNING FOR PEACE

Napoleon asked why the people were weeping and wanted to know what misfortune had happened here.

An enlightened Jewish French officer told him that nothing new and terrible had happened. The Jewish people had a custom to gather once a year on a day called the ninth day of Av, the day that marks the destruction of the Jewish people’s Temple. Twice they built a magnificent Temple in Jerusalem and both were destroyed.

After their second Temple was destroyed the people were scattered all over the world and sold as slaves.

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this Napoleon exclaimed, “A nation that cries and fasts for over 2,000 years for their land and Temple will surely be rewarded with their Temple.”

On Tuesday August 9 th Jewish people worldwide will gather and pray for the return of a peaceful Israel.

They will remember how wonderful and safe the land of Israel was. How they had a magnificent Temple where nations came to pray, paying homage to G-d.

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Prophets speak of the time when there will be world peace – as found in the recorded words of the prophets Isaiah 2:4 and Michah 4:3 “..they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift a sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more.”

Michah 4:4 continues: “Each man shall sit under his vine and under his fig-tree, and none shall make them afraid…”

The threat of war and nuclear bombs will be a thing of the past. Nuclear energy will only be used for peaceful purposes such as nuclear power. Nations will feel like a family. The true knowledge of G-d will be known – what a wonderful world we will have.

Isaiah 11:6-9: “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie with the kid, and a calf with a lion’s cub and a fat ling together, and a small child shall lead them…”

In the view of modern psychology the small child leading may offer a unique interpretation. It may be about the emergence of the inner child that we all possess. That the prophet is really speaking about people returning to the innocence of childhood. A child that knows right from wrong and is at peace with itself.

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We are now living in a world where little children are sacrificed by the Arab-Israeli struggle. What we need to do is stop the mayhem in that area. Allowing the unheard cry from the real child to emerge.

If I could make a wish it would be the following: As Tuesday August 9th marks the destruction of the Land of Israel and its glorious Temples.

On that day let both Jews and Arabs gather in their houses of worship and end their conflicts. For over 2,000 years Jews have been remembering their land and Temple. It is time to end the weeping and start the reaping of a new era of peace.

Rabbi Eli Hecht is vice–president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America and past–president of the Rabbinical Council of California. He is the director of Chabad of South Bay in Lomita, CA which houses a synagogue, day school, nursery school and chaplaincy programs.

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The Meating Place KCA 30313 Canwood St. AH, 91301 (818) 706-1255

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OUR GUESTS COME FOR THE SPECTACULAR ROCKIES , AND RETURN FOR OUR SPECTACULAR PROGRAM

a spectacular getaway in th-

colorado rockies

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Malave Malka With Benny Friedmam

three gourmet meals daily

Food Directed by Michael Schick Inspiring guest lecturers including:

Rabbi Nate Segal: Community servicesdirector of Torah U'Mesorah | Rabbi Reuven Wolf: Director Maayon Yisroel chasidic learning center Rabbi Nesanel Lauer: Education Director Emeritus of Bais Yaakov Detriot

VAIL, COLORADO

AUGUST 11-25, 2011

SUMMER 2011 WITH THE WERNER BROTHERS

Please visit our website for a complete list of services, activities, amenities & much more.

1-888-567-0100 or 718-778-4241 WWW.KMRTOURS.COM

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Milk N’ Honey Restaurant

ktrah ckj 8837 West Pico Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90035 For our Lunch & Dinner Menu View - www.milkandhoneyrestaurant.com

310- 858-8850

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Plenty of Parking In The Rear Sunday Brunch Available!

11:00 AM - 2:30 PM

CATERING AVAILABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS: BRIS, BAR/BAT MITZVAS, BIRTHDAYS, ETC.