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From the desk of NCSY Alumni Director - Rabbi Dave Felsenthal
With all the craziness going on with the killings, prisoners, floods etc. this week, what can be better then an old friend reaching out to remind you just how lucky we are! Over the past week I’ve had over 150 NCSY Alumni friends contact me through the International NCSY Alumni Group, The NCSY Alumni You’ve Got A Friend Profiles , by registering for the Free reunion for alumni of the last 10 years and through the good old phone!
I hope all of you take advantage of these tools to reacquaint and STAY in touch with some of the best friends you’ll ever have. I also hope, many of you get together and host Free reunions in your home communities like I am (with help of the Baumsers and Stareshefskys) and use these tools to publicize them!
Nothing is better than a true friend.
Have an Awesome Shabbat,
Rabbi Dave Felsenthal
Director NCSY Alumni
To Go To Israel For $499 This July
D'VAR TORAH BY AN ALUMNUS
Parshas Tazria - Metzora By Rabbi Yaacov Haber
Thank G-d we are free! Freedom is something we strive for and we treasure. Historically, in this country we have given our lives for freedom. At the same time freedom is a little scary. You can't tell much about a person who is oppressed and restrained. A slave does what he is told. It is only when we go free and have the luxury of doing what we want, when we want that true person, the real neshama comes out for everyone to see
For the rest
Free NCSY Alumni Reunion For Alumni Of Past 10 Years
I am hosting a free NCSY Alumni Reunion in my house together with the Baumsers and Stareshefsky's The Shabbos of May 4-5. Rabbi Burg and Glasser and families will join us as well. All alumni of the last 10 years are invited to come but we will be closing registration soon.
To register
NCSY Archives: "How Did it All Begin?" - An Interview With Rabbi Pinchas Stolper
Forty-five years ago, in September 1959, just as a new school year was beginning, Rabbi Pinchas Stolper was given a job that nobody else wanted and no one thought could be done. That job was to create a youth movement for Orthodox Jews. With no budget to speak of, and faced with a rising tide of American Jewish assimilation, it's no wonder it was seen as a thankless job. Rabbi Stolper was told he wouldn't last more than three months.
To read how it all began
Picture This: NCSY Web Site's "Picture of the Week." 4 past and present VPEs at the Bar Kokhba Caves during Kollel 2006:Jonathon Shyman (Midwest), Jeffrey Fantl (Central East), Noah Zivan (Upper New York) and DJ Handelman (Chicago chapter).
NCSY In The News: Adira Winegust
 As the First ever Canadaian to become a Leiberman Scholar, Adira took the opportunity to create a Kiddush Hashem on an international scale.
York Region
Canadian Jewish News
Jewish Tribune
OU News
NCSY Alumni Profiles: Tonny Schwarzmer
 NCSY Boys Choir From Album "Shabbas Comes Alive" Tonny is in front row 3rd from right.
Tonny Schwarzmer is a former Regional Board member in the New England Region of NCSY. Recently he joined the Israeli Army and started a blog so we can all follow along with his experience.
Tonny's Blog
ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS
Engagements
- Dovid Kahan (New York) & Liat Stern (NY)
- Stephen Rosen (Canada, National NCSY) & Jodi Farber (Canada)
- YITTY RUCHY PREIZLER (NY) & MICHOEL DOV SHWIMMER (NY)
- Keren Stiebel (Central East) & Yosef Klein (Central East)
- Aryeh Smith (Minneapolis, Minnesota) & Bashi Kamins (Central East)
- Rebecca Schlachter (New York) & Greg Eliason (Cape Town, South Africa)
Weddings
- Yael Wollman (New Jersey) & Elie Farkas
- Eliana Baer (NJ) & Josh Weiss
Births
- Rabbi Moshe Benovitz, Director of NCSY Kollel, and his wife Serena upon the birth to a baby girl
- Morrie & Carrie Klians (Canada) on the recent birth of their granddaughter Shayna Sara to Naomi & Yehuda Kohn
- Nitzan Tiferet to Benjamin&Yael (Harris) Resnick (Valley Village)
- Noa Ilana to Sharon and Michael Shimoff (Atlantic Seaboard)
- Baby Boy to Naomi (NJ) and Eli Kohl
- Sophie to Elli and Ashley Klapper (NJ)
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Condolences
- Mrs. Faye Raitzik, mother of Mrs. Toby Schreier, wife of Rabbi Max Schreier, and grandmother of Rabbi Dov Schreier (FNL)
- Mrs. Marilynn Lowenstein, mother of Ruth Glasser (West Coast, New Jersey)
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Ameilla Ray, and Morris Ray Z"L beloved mother and father to Larry and Allen Ray, Grand chrildren Jennifer Bell and Suzanne Hosiosky and Avi and Yoni Ray, Great great grandchirldren Natanel, Mier Lior and Tali Hosiosky and Samantha Bell
Other
- Bruce Abrams (Fair Lawn NJ) and April Selditch-Abrams (Coram LI) made aliyah to Efrat with 4 children- Rina 15, Shoshana 12, Coby 8, and Yonatan 2.
All alumn welcome to visit. 201 837 7217 (VOIP) or 02 993 3802
Please send us your announcements
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