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Brookline religion notes Community Content Note: Many services are canceled or moved online due to the coronavirus. Check with your local house of worship for updates. BJEP (Boston-area Jewish Education Program) BJEP has a welcoming and inclusive approach to Jewish learning for kindergarten through seventh-grade students. Get in touch with the program’s director at director@bjep.com or 781-386-7278. Congregation Mishkan Tefila Shabbat Services: Fridays at 6 p.m.; Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. Congr...

The Yavneh graduating class of 2021 presented yet another captivating Holocaust production, the 44th since they were introduced by former Principal Rabbi Eugene Kwalwasser in 1977. The online presentation was aired on Tuesday evening, June 1. Entitled “Kindertransport,” the program explored the stories of four child survivors who were sent away by their parents to a safe haven in London before the outbreak of World War II. For the past 20 years, Rabbi Shmuel Burstein, rebbe and Jewish histor...

Note: Many services are canceled or moved online due to the coronavirus. Check with your local house of worship for updates.

Note: Many services are canceled or moved online due to the coronavirus. Check with your local house of worship for updates.

‘Donny Morris z”l Memorial Program’ Inspires Learning and Mitzvot By Pearl Markovitz | May 20, 2021 Nachman Daniel ben Aryeh Tzvi, Donny Morris, z”l, was gifted to his family, friends and communities in the U.S. and Israel for a brief 19 years. On Lag B’Omer he was taken from them during the tragedy on Mt. Meron. Thousands were in attendance at his heartbreaking levaya at Yeshivat Sha’alvim and tens of thousands joined via Zoom as he was buried on Har ...

Brookline religion notes Community Content Note: Many services are canceled or moved online due to the coronavirus. Check with your local house of worship for updates. BJEP (Boston-area Jewish Education Program) BJEP has a welcoming and inclusive approach to Jewish learning for kindergarten through seventh-grade students. Get in touch with the program’s director at director@bjep.com or 781-386-7278. Congregation Mishkan Tefila Shabbat Services: Fridays at 6 p.m.; Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. Congr...

Mirlana Morris to her son, Donny: ‘You touched so many lives with your kindness’ Mirlana Morris to her son, Donny: ‘You touched so many lives with your kindness’ The 19-year-old student from New Jersey was laid to rest in Jerusalem in a funeral attended by tens of thousands, including those online. (May 3, 2021 / JNS) With a cracking voice and tears in her eyes, Donny Morris’s mother, Mirlana Morris, eulogized her son. “I have so many questions,” she said through sobs, “but litt...

(Arutz Sheva and Jewish Link Staff) Rabbi Aryeh Waxman eulogized Daniel (Donny) Morris, a 19-year-old student from Bergenfield, New Jersey, who was a shana alelph student at the Shaalvim yeshiva and who perished in the disaster at Meron last week, in an interview with Kan News Sunday. Morris was a graduate of Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey (RYNJ) and the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (MTA).  "Its so hard to talk right now. I just want people to know that Israel has lost an angel. When h...

One of the victims was 19-year-old Donny Morris, from Bergenfield, New Jersey, who was seen photographed shortly before the stampede. He was a graduate of Mrasha Stern Talmudical Academy in Manhattan, and was studying in the country during a gap year, according to his uncle. Members of the Jewish community in the town visited the Morris family home to comfort the grieving parents and family. "Thankfully the Bergenfield community, as is the nature of all good people, come together with renewed s...

Rabbi Elliot Schrier Named Mara D’Atra of Bnai Yeshurun By Elizabeth Kratz | April 28, 2021 After an exhaustive 18-month rabbinic search and interview process, punctuated by a global pandemic, Rabbi Elliot Schrier was named mara d’atra of Teaneck’s Congregation Bnai Yeshurun (CBY). The role became available when Rabbi Steven Pruzansky announced plans to make aliyah in 2019, after more than a quarter century serving at the helm of Teaneck’s 530-families-str...